Constant pop-ups.

[Genzzry]

I'm just trying out Avast "free" and I've noticed that it has constant pop-ups (multiple times a day) with scaremongering and blatant lies in an attempt to sell Avast products / services to those that don't know any better.

I am on the verge of uninstalling it due to the constant notification spam, but wondered if maybe I've missed a setting to disable them?
Is there a setting to do this anywhere (even in the registry, etc) ?
"Silence Avast Notifications" does not do it.

[DavidR]

The unfortunate cost of free, no setting to stop (paid versions only).

Personally I hate these Ads purporting to be security warnings/messages.

These seem to be more frequent as a new user and should reduce over time.  Many are as a Result of running the so called Smart Scan, did you run this ? 

Generally I don't run on-demand scans (including the Not so Smart Scan) outside of beta testing (which I do much less of now) and questions in the forums.

When installing it is also advisable to do a custom only install those components you want/need.  It is possible to remove components you don't want at a later point.

[Genzzry]

I use a hypervisor with snapshots, so don't technically need an AV... as my system is a clean install every time I turn it on... unless I let it do updates & create a new snapshot.
(this lets me run a virus that wipes everything from my PC or encrypts it all... turn it off/on... and everything is back to normal)

My documents are spread over GoogleDrive, OneDrive and a local Git repo (with versioning)... encrypted with Cryptomator, so I have redundant backups to only the specific files that I'm using at the time.
All passwords are split and stored partially in a KeePass file (via the "cloud" drives) and partially in an offline tablet that has had its wifi device unplugged (with 2FA on anything that supports it), so no single point of failure.

I was just testing Avast to see what it was like, as I've not used an AV in over 10 years...
...but its really falling short.

It's not even been able to detect that its running inside a virtual environment with other OSes :/
Avast's main focus seems to be on telling me that I should be using their VPN... probably so that they can watch my visits to any unencrypted sites (and how I interact with them) for marketing purposes :/

[bob3160]

Sorry to disagree. I also hate those sales and misleading popups but,
the statement about constant popups is a bit of an exaggeration.