Disable wifi/wireless network advisor fully, completely and permanently

[hooliator]

I have the PAID version of Avast. v8.0.1489 and I have this exact same problem.

I paid for Avast partly to avoid annoying advertisements and now I get this. It pops up for EVERY wi-fi network, EVERY time I log on. Clicking the little box does nothing except make it go away for that one session.

I am not EVER going to buy this wi-fi advisor product and I would like the advert to go away, more so since I already PAID for your product!!

This is annoying enough to qualify as SPAM or as a bug or both.

My Avast license is coming up for renewal. If I'm going to get annoying advertisements whether I pay or not, then I guess I'll just hold onto my money.

[peg645]

My next time 'round got the screen bob3160 pointed out. Clicked on the button below. Yes, this seems to stop the pop-up. But that's not my issue. It is still stopping me from gaining access to that County Real Property web site, and other occasional ones as well. I even reported this to the IT fellow at the County, especially as it was suggested Avast tried to protect us from dangerous sites - what could be dangerous about this small County's site? Nothing the IT fellow is aware of, but he appreciated knowing the origin of the problem.

I frankly see it as a way Avast is saying the sky is falling, so have to buy a paid version to protect me during these horrible non-secured internet browsing expeditions - which, in my case are daily as well, considering my home wireless wifi is not protected, and have no reason to make it so...

Others have recommended any other free antivirus sites. Been using Avast a long time, but if it's going to give me issues, and their response is a carte blanche resolution of uninstalling, and then reinstalling - when the rep couldn't even repeat what I said my issue was, guess it's time to move on...

[bob3160]

@peg645,
Forget the 800 number. It's third party support and not something any of us would recommend.
Please list the URL for the site that's giving you a problem but list it as hxxp instead of http so if it turns out to be
a site that actually contains malicious code, that simply clicking on your listing will not get someone infected. (Someone not using avast!)

[peg645]

Again, this is a public, governmental site - used for real property look ups. The link is hxxp://imo.otsegocounty.com/index.aspx, but what the issue is, is after clicking "for public access", nothing happens using my unsecured wireless modem connected to Wild Blue. If using my hard wired Hughesnet modem, I have no problem. But I'm dropping Hughesnet, and am certain it's not the provider, but the modem. Obvious to me there is Avast interference as, prior to my checking on the box not to show the pop-up, it was Avast that would jump in and warn me as I tried to access the Public page via the wireless modem - that I had a wireless modem, not that there was an issue with the page.

I get simply a blank, white page. And my modem is an excellent Linksys wireless modem.

Again, there have been a few other random pages I have not been able to access lately as well. But perhaps less than 1%. Not sure why this page spurs Avast interest.

I'll prefer to change to other anti-virus programs than be told to do myriad settings changes merely to appease avast. But thanks for your interest.

[bob3160]

Are you sure you don't have something else installed that's causing this

As you can see, I have no problems getting to that site.
(I used Google Chrome to access the site.)

[peg645]

I can access it as well, as long as I don't use my wireless modem, which Avast is always warning me about. Doesn't work via Chrome or IE.  Plug my computer directly into an internet provider, and the Avast wasn't giving me a hard time, and would allow me access. Now that I've clicked that the pop-up stop warning me, it still doesn't work - just that the pop-up doesn't pop up. But that was always immediately ahead of its not working...

[bob3160]

I'm on my laptop on a wifi connection and had no problems accessing the site.

[soupordave]

I also want to disable the "WIFI adviser", for no other reason then that it is useless and annoying. I know and understand the risks of using an open connection. I do not want to be nagged to death by software. There should be a way to turn this "nag" off, even if it is hard to find so only the desperate find it. To me, one of the best things about Avast was all the things it didn't do. Bit by bit that seems to be changing for the worse. Bloatware disappoints me. Thank you, and God bless you, to whoever provides the solution to this pointless problem.

[sluggolj20]

The ONLY way to disable this nag is MY method...uninstall Avast & install AVG...really works.

[Lisandro]

Afaik, there will be an option to disable the SecureLine icon (and the messages) in avast! 2014.

[ptorq]

The ONLY way to disable this nag is MY method...uninstall Avast & install AVG...really works.

Yep, doing that now.  Twice a week I use an unsecured connection. I know it's unsecured. I don't care. Avast sure does, though; shows me the warning EVERY TIME. Since I can't turn it off, bye bye Avast.  If the stupid box to stop notifying me about that particular network WORKED, I'd still be using (and recommending) Avast, but when an option doesn't work, it makes me mistrust everything else about the program also.

[bob3160]

The ONLY way to disable this nag is MY method...uninstall Avast & install AVG...really works.

Yep, doing that now.  Twice a week I use an unsecured connection. I know it's unsecured. I don't care. Avast sure does, though; shows me the warning EVERY TIME. Since I can't turn it off, bye bye Avast.  If the stupid box to stop notifying me about that particular network WORKED, I'd still be using (and recommending) Avast, but when an option doesn't work, it makes me mistrust everything else about the program also.

A much simpler choice would have been not to install that function at all by doing a custom install when you first installed the program.

[dlsauer]

[ing a custom install when you first installed the program.

This pop up and its annoyances occurred after avast auto updated itself... so had no chance not to install this annoyance. It was just all of a sudden there!    This system had 7.x or something and then it was 8.x...

Clicking the box "Disable for this network" does nothing it eventually comes back, the SSID has not changed, the IP has not changed... and it seems to occur around the same time every 24 hours or there about... sooo....

I have CORRECTED THE PROBLEM.. UNINSTALLED avast. Good riddance... No more issues!

Bye bye avast...  Won't suggest your software to any one, ever.