Meaningless pushing

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Avast I get pop up's with meaningless "advices". Using a VPN connection all the time I still get your advice to use one of your "other products" to hide my activity.
So you do not look at my security but you look at what I am doing!! That makes me doubt about the quality of your advices and withhold me from going to a paid version.

[Eddy]

How do you think security software can look at your security if it doesn't look at what you are doing ?

[REDACTED]

You may be right but it does not explain Avast's wrong conclusion as that I am visible from the outside.
That wrong conclusion make me think/doubt about the reliability of their other advices.

[Eddy]

Why do you think the conclusion is wrong ?

As long as you do not take good protection measurements, the conclusion is correct.

http://bfy.tw/976G

[REDACTED]

Maybe my first message was not clear but I am ALWAYS using a Virtual Private Network connection and that is exactly what Avast is trying to sell me too!

[Para-Noid]

If you use avast free you will be getting pop-up advertising.
avast has to pay the bills and do so through paid subscriptions.
Paid for products get either no ads or, at the very least, very few ads.

[davexnet]

Isn't it true that if you drop out of the "avast community", the advertising is minimized ?

[DavidR]

Isn't it true that if you drop out of the "avast community", the advertising is minimized ?

I participate in the "avast community" and I see relatively few ads, the toaster popups don't bother me that much anyway.

[=Snake=]

@davexnet
Hi!

Concerning your sig: you could also update to '2280NU' (it's faster).
 
=Snake= aka HDW38

[Alikhan]

Isn't it true that if you drop out of the "avast community", the advertising is minimized ?

That isn't proven but if you drop out of "avast community", CyberCapture won't work.

[davexnet]

Isn't it true that if you drop out of the "avast community", the advertising is minimized ?

That isn't proven but if you drop out of "avast community", CyberCapture won't work.

OK thanks for the info.  According to "About avast" I'm running  12.3.2280 (build 12.3.3154.23) is this the latest for Windows XP ?

Is CyberCapture only concerned with unrecognized downloads from the web?  Or am I mixing it up with something else ?

[Alikhan]

Isn't it true that if you drop out of the "avast community", the advertising is minimized ?

That isn't proven but if you drop out of "avast community", CyberCapture won't work.

OK thanks for the info.  According to "About avast" I'm running  12.3.2280 (build 12.3.3154.23) is this the latest for Windows XP ?

Is CyberCapture only concerned with unrecognized downloads from the web?  Or am I mixing it up with something else ?

https://blog.avast.com/cybercapture-protection-against-zero-second-attacks

[DavidR]

Guys, can we try to keep on topic, we are drifting way of the OPs issue.