Author Topic: Why is Avast Showing Ads?  (Read 9065 times)

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Offline kyuuketsuki_kurai

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Re: Why is Avast Showing Ads?
« Reply #15 on: September 29, 2011, 10:26:59 PM »
It's actually the contrary. The popup says that you HAVE INSTALLED Chrome together with avast (Chrome is offered during avast installation - it's been like this for almost 2 years now), but have not actually USED it. It's not asking you to install it (you most likely already have it - as you can check e.g. in the Control Panel; at least that's what the avast records say).

I can discredit the bolded section above. Not only have I used Google Chrome, I was using it when the pop-up advertising Google Chrome showed up.
I had this come up and I'm sure it said something about installing Chrome. I guess I could be wrong. I was also using Chrome at the time.
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Re: Why is Avast Showing Ads?
« Reply #16 on: September 30, 2011, 09:20:27 PM »
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