Avast Free constantly shows me offers

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Hello. I've recently installed Avast Free Antivirus and sometimes it shows me a LOT of offers. Is there any way to disable this?
I know that you need to make money from free product, but why did you make it ad-supported product? 

On pictures you can see how it looks on my laptop.

P.S. Before ads, Avast was really the best free antivirus.

Thanks.

[schmidthouse]

This is the direction Avast Marketing has chosen to go, there are many who are frustrated.

[Asyn]

Is there any way to disable this?

Yes, enable silent/gaming mode.

[Secondmineboy]

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/avast-please-share-your-opinion.378539/

Many people complain about it here

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This is the direction Avast Marketing has chosen to go, there are many who are frustrated.

This is a very bad move. I'm sure that they will lose huge amount of users. 

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Is there any way to disable this?

Yes, enable silent/gaming mode.

I don't like the silent/gaming mode because then I don't see alert when I recive a virus.

[Secondmineboy]

They might already be loosing users:

https://www.avast.com/stats#

Last update to the diagram was in april

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I'm still hoping that they will remove this offers in new version of Avast Free.

[Asyn]

I'm still hoping that they will remove this offers in new version of Avast Free.

You can turn them off in the paid versions.

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I'm still hoping that they will remove this offers in new version of Avast Free.

You can turn them off in the paid versions.

I can see that. 

[DavidR]

Is there any way to disable this?

Yes, enable silent/gaming mode.

I don't like the silent/gaming mode because then I don't see alert when I recive a virus.

You should still see virus alerts (test using the eicar virus test file) but administrative, informative or interactive notifications. The latter one you can get if you have the DeepScreen or Hardened Mode (Aggressive) options set, you wouldn't see those.

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Is there any way to disable this?

Yes, enable silent/gaming mode.

I don't like the silent/gaming mode because then I don't see alert when I recive a virus.

You should still see virus alerts (test using the eicar virus test file) but administrative, informative or interactive notifications. The latter one you can get if you have the DeepScreen or Hardened Mode (Aggressive) options set, you wouldn't see those.

Nope. I've tried to download EICAR test file and there is no alert. Just Opera showing me that page is not available. 

[DavidR]

Well that is certainly a failure, as according to a very senior avast team member it should still alert.

I have just tested it I moved eicar.com test file from an excluded folder to another area and it was allowed. Not only that I was able to execute the eicar.com file as the notepad windows opened and was then closed.

But at no time did I get an avast alert whilst in silent mode. Whilst there was no alert, the eicar.com file was sent to the chest.

EDIT: change of attachment.

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Same here. Maybe it's a bug. 

[DavidR]

Same here. Maybe it's a bug. 

I have reported this thread in the hope that is will result in investigation by avast as this really shouldn't happen.