Had Avast free on my Win 7 desktop for the last couple of weeks. Decided to do the upgrade to Windows 10 a couple of nights ago. Went to Control Panel and did an uninstall of Avast before doing the upgrade. Upgrade went fine but now every time I start the computer I get a "nag screen" to update Avast in the lower right hand corner of the screen.
Called Avast support and they said I should have used the Avast uninstall utility to get it out, not Control Panel. Told me to download the utility and it would take care of it. Did that and still get the nag screen. Called back and was told for $180 they could access my files and remove it. Promptly hung up.
Thought well, maybe if I go ahead and reinstall Avast and then run the uninstall utility that would take care of it. Wrong, still get the nag screen.
Any ideas on where to look for something else as obviously Avast is not going to be of help, unless I open up my wallet of course.