Avast - Now Please Confirm your level of protection

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This message has locked up the Win 2008 server machine it is running on. I find it really objectionable that a sales screen should lock up the computer, almost as if to force the user to upgrade. The only thing I can get to is the Taskmanager because i am logged in via Teamviewer and I can't kill Avast from there, Access is denied.

If there is no way around this it is one helluva reason to avoid Avast at all costs. There is plenty of other good software out there.

Seems to me that Avast fits the definition of a virus

If I ever get this message through it will be by accident, the Verification field is impossible to read the letters. How come I never have a problem with Captcha and your crap is unreadable.

[CraigB]

Seems you managed to read the captcha just fine, it's only for the first three posts.

If it were too easy then the spammers would have a field day

[bob3160]

A screenshot of you you claim is locking up your computer would certainly be helpful.

[DavidR]

I just wonder how Peter795 managed to install Avast Free (only way that confirmation popup would appear) on a server OS ?

This message has locked up the Win 2008 server machine it is running on.

[Asyn]

I just wonder how Peter795 managed to install Avast Free (only way that confirmation popup would appear) on a server OS ?

This message has locked up the Win 2008 server machine it is running on.

Good catch Dave, Avast Free doesn't run on server OS.

[Rundvleeskroket]

What?

So if I were to install Win10 Enterprise on my home PC, just to have a little more control over updates and telemetry, I wouldn't be able to use Avast Free?

I guess Avast isn't in my future. Neither is Win10 probably, but still.

By the way i got the same screen at boot today. Annoying marketing push.

[DavidR]

What?

So if I were to install Win10 Enterprise on my home PC, just to have a little more control over updates and telemetry, I wouldn't be able to use Avast Free?

I guess Avast isn't in my future. Neither is Win10 probably, but still.

By the way i got the same screen at boot today. Annoying marketing push.

I don't believe that to be completely correct as it isn't a Server OS.

Windows 10 Enterprise provides all the features of Windows 10 Pro, with additional features to assist with IT-based organizations, and is functionally equivalent to Windows 8.1 Enterprise.[1][2][3] Windows 10 Enterprise is configurable on three branches, Current branch (CB), Current branch for business (CBB), and Insider Program.[4]

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_editions.

[Rundvleeskroket]

You're right.

Although if a server version gave me more control, I could potentially run that as a desktop OS. And then Avast Free wouldn't run. Server OS does not automatically equate to server duty.

Of course I shouldn't have to resort to such measures, if MS would actually still care about its power users. But that is a bit off topic.

[Rundvleeskroket]

I got the screen again today. That's two days in a row. I'm really getting fed up with this...

[DavidR]

I got the screen again today. That's two days in a row. I'm really getting fed up with this...

Well from other posts in the forum this seems to do this three times, but I haven't seen it more than once after update/installation of a new program version.

Was this a clean installation ?
If so it may be that any history of what popups you have seen is likely to be lost.

[Rundvleeskroket]

This is a 5 year old installation. Even the update to the latest version is probably from a couple of weeks ago.

This popup is new behaviour since yesterday.

[bob3160]

This is a 5 year old installation.

I think you mean that the original Avast installation has been updated for the past five years.

[Rundvleeskroket]

Sure. But it isn't a fresh 'clean' install. So there is an extensive history present. Still, I'm getting these annoying screens as if I'm a new user or it's a new installation. I'm not, and it isn't.

[Asyn]

Sure. But it isn't a fresh install. So there is an extensive history present. Still, I'm getting these annoying screens as if I'm a new user. I'm not.

Might be a bug, provide your logs.
-> https://forum.avast.com/index.php?msg=1432347