Annoying Avast nag screens/popups

[Hajo Kirchhoff]

Hi,
ever since a couple of weeks my Avast Professional is showing ad's for additional Avast products. Every time I log on, I am offered a christmas special, asked to upgrade Avast or try out the Avast VPN or whatnot. These popups windows have almost the same format as the virus update notifications.

I do want do get the virus update notifications, but I DO NOT WANT TO SEE ADs for other Avast products. I am happy with Avast Professional and I do not want Internet Security or any other Avast edition.

How do I turn these nagging popups off permanently?

I hope it is possible (I haven't found a way to do so). If not, then I will stop using Avast and also stop recommending it. This can't be!

If I pay for a program, I want to be able to use it without being nagged about upgrading to a "better" version. This is very poor buisness practice. (On top of that: The popups are shown in german, even though I choose english as the UI language).

I'm beginning to feel very annoyed and hope these popups will disappear soon.

(This is Avast 2014, latest build, on a Windows 7 x64 system).

Regards

Hajo

[AdrianH]

Caused by a well documented bug ............. there are endless threads/posts here about the issue.

[Eddy]

Disable the community features.

[Para-Noid]

Those are probably the ongoing vps update pop-up issue.
What's happening is that you are getting the wrongly worded pop-ups.
Many users have resorted to disabling those pop-ups.
GUI>Settings>Update>scroll down to "details">untick the box