Stop Avast From Harrassing Me?

[Pondus]

Isn't Avast supposed to stop unwanted popups?

avast does not have a popup blocker

Contents of Result: "At first I thought it was just a coincidence, but lately I've noticed that whenever I look for porn, even if I'm just searching for it using Bing Videos, Avast! shows up a little pop-up add for their Secureline VPN, telling me about how I should use it to avoid being monitored.

Seems to be the ad for buying VPN  >  https://www.avast.com/secureline-vpn#pc

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I meant that avast stops a virus from popping up by detecting & deleting or preventing it lol, sorry that was a bit of a stretch I suppose. [I meant that Avast is supposed to stop things from annoying you -- viruses et al -- but it then annoys you itself.]

Yeah, the VPN thing is programmed to show up when you watch porn.

I ONLY get it on porn.

I incognito a lot of things, and it only consistently, in a measurable way, pops up during porn. [I don't do my banking on this computer]

So, can the VPN popup and all the others be turned off?

[Eddy]

Yes, they can in the paid versions.

[DavidR]

I don't use the avast SecureLine VPN function , if you are saying it is only related to that when viewing p o r n sites.

You could try disabling or uninstalling the VPN component.
AvastUI > Settings > Components > Privacy > SecureLine VPN.

There is obviously a downside as you don't get that security on non p o r n sites.

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I don't use the avast SecureLine VPN function , if you are saying it is only related to that when viewing p o r n sites.

You could try disabling or uninstalling the VPN component.
AvastUI > Settings > Components > Privacy > SecureLine VPN.

There is obviously a downside as you don't get that security on non p o r n sites.

I don't use the SecureLine VPN either, but I went ahead with your suggestion and disabled the component. Unless there is an oversight with their code, I doubt this will work though as I was getting popups to buy the SecureLine VPN, and uninstalling it is a further step from be buying it than they want. Unless that was desired as a means for people to disable the messages completely. Thank you for that suggestion though! I looked through the options before, but I definitely missed that one.

[DavidR]

You're welcome.

Personally I tend not to disable a component (unless it is a temporary thing), but uninstall it.

Something to consider is when installing is to do a custom install and only select the components you require/want.