Avast is so loud it startles me, makes me mad and makes me hate Avast, regardless of how wonderful it might otherwise be. And another thing, what's wrong with Avast engineers and marketing people? Don't they read their own blogs? Where do I go to read what Avast has to say about their unwelcome invasion of my privacy. Oh, I know what happened, a hacker got into their site, set the virtural announce volume fader on 11 and then wacked access to the volume control. Avast can't admit they got hacked and wacked. Remember you guys, things haven't changed that much, the customer is still always right. So fix it!!!