popup about magazine/newspaper articles

[astro46]

Avast free, ver. 2014.9.0.2008.   this happens once or twice a day; a popup telling me about some internet safety concern from an article in some publication. It stays on screen for almost a minute.  I am guessing that the intention is to scare me into buying an upgrade. In settings>popups, none of the choices are set for more than 10 sec.  How can I control this popup, short of manually closing it every time it opens?

[olddog]

Avast free, ver. 2014.9.0.2008.   this happens once or twice a day; a popup telling me about some internet safety concern from an article in some publication. It stays on screen for almost a minute.  I am guessing that the intention is to scare me into buying an upgrade. In settings>popups, none of the choices are set for more than 10 sec.  How can I control this popup, short of manually closing it every time it opens?

Try posting a screen shot of the pop up you are referring to.

[DavidR]

- Auto Update Notifications are screwed up.
The popup is I believe actually meant to be the auto update notification (check your avastUI > Settings > Update and you will see that an auto update has just taken place. It appears that these tips/ad popups are piggybacked onto the auto update notification popup and this looks like it messes up the display and sound for the auto update notifications.

If you browse the forums you will see several topics relating to a known bug about updates.
1. no auto update notification popup (commonly displays an avast! tip - Ad, instead).
2. no audio voice over for the auto update.
3. the popup delay timings don't appear to work either.
These tips popups have in the past been piggybacked with the auto update update notification, so the only way to get rid of them would be to disable the auto update notification, which if you want the update notification (when it works correctly) would remove everything.

- since these are screwed up auto update notifications, you need to uncheck the Show notification box after automatic update (avastUI > Settings > Update - scroll down to details).

[astro46]

DavidR, thanks.  I have unchecked "show update notifications". I'll see what happens.  I don't really keep track of when they happen anyway. I just assume that it is updating.  though,  there is some sense of reassurance knowing that avast is there, and updating itself.

[DavidR]

You're welcome.