The reply is the worst I could expect, considering the poster's aggravation. Just clicking the top right of window doesn't say anything about the intrusiveness of AVAST in this person's gripe. There are so many people who are aggravated, and while I agree that software companies need to charge for the software to stay in business, support the programmers, and everything else, there's STILL such a thing as overly-done with the intrusiveness and getting on people's nerves. No one likes to see something over-done. Your answer did nothing, other than to say, live with it. Isn't it a subject now that people are fed up and want a stop, to this nonsense? This over-driven desire could be done very much less, but where people would still upgrade. Such as when a person decides on some specific day that they decided I like 'this' feature that I find myself clicking on and I believe it would be worth it to pay for an upgrade. In other words, when people see a newer feature available and they like it enough, they could very well pay for it. Companies have room still to make their software more people friendly, and still be getting upgrades without all the stupid over and over, endless reminders for the supposed need to upgrade.