I have used Avast for a long time, I know what I paid for and what I do not have. Not everyone is a novice and I did the feature comparison when I bought the software. I never buy software blindly and I did not do it when I purchased this either!
My statements still stand and I already disabled them (appreciate the post for helping to disable them, but I did that already after looking up how to quit having constant ads). The point is, I should not even have to and neither should other paid customers. One of the main reasons I bought Pro over the years was to NOT get the ads. I know how to shut off the ads whether the program lets you or not as well, by the way.
No where on the website do I see information about, "Even if you pay for our products, we will still bombard you with ads!". That is not listed as a feature. I get no less ads with the paid version (in fact, think more) than when I was using Avast Free. That is completely unacceptable and one of the key reasons I paid for it was to have better protection and no ads.
I can understand ads with free versions, a fair trade off for getting helpful software for free. It is when I pay decent money for a product (when there are free/cheaper alternatives) and I still get constant upgrade nagging. I can see in an email here and there "Upgrade your product for X to get X features".
Antivirus are a necessary evil, but you want one that is as unobtrusive as possible. Constant upgrade ads in the corner of my screen, especially when I am using my computer for important/work related things, is not what I want from ANY software on my computer.
And then you have people like yourself who defend such things? Wow. For me, no thanks and people who promote such things have an obvious vested interest. You are not going to convince me and acting like I blindly bought this software has that "cloud looking down" feel to it. Spare it for someone else! No where does it state you will get ad bombardments even paying for the software and Avast should be ashamed. I used Avast since it first came out on the PC and paid for it many times over. My money will now go elsewhere because I did not pay for spam, I paid for protection!
I thought anti-spyware and anti-virus software protected you from popups and ads? I guess now they are spyware themselves, considering it apparently counts my passwords and begs me to upgrade it constantly!
