Is there a way to get rid of the "avast! Security Upgrade Available" ad popup?
I've looked in the settings, googled, looked in the settings again to no avail. Either it goes, or avast goes. AFAIK Windows Live Essentials doesn't spam you with ads, whilst providing a perfectly good free alternative. Not happy to be spammed.
One of the reasons i chosed avast! AV in the first place was because it did not try to scare people into buying/using things. It had a sound risk-awareness and provided a good protection according to trustworthy reviews/tests. Now I'm not only met with an ad for their product almost every time I login, I am presented with a dishonest lie that if I shop or bank online and spend time on social networks - obviously things that almost everyone does - I should get the 349 kr (swedish krona, our currency) internet security upgrade. It is a lie, because the risk minimal - millions of ppl shops or use bank/social networks every day, very few of those get their accounts stolen. You are way more likley to lose the 349 kr to avast! then to a hacker (and the bank gives your stolen money back, avast does not). Avast! is ofcourse aware of this but still choses to be dishonest in their ad. This is nothing but taking advantage of people who feel unsecure and doesn't know much about the internet/computers.
I know that there are security freaks out there that buy everything corporations tell them to as long as it contains the words "security" or "safe" and then followed by a graph on how much unsafer things have become in their respective market area (internet, homes, cars etc.), and that is every alarm salesmans dream customer. But I went on for years without even having an anti-virus program and I was perfectly fine. No viruses or worms, no stolen accounts, no nothing. This is while shoping online, using internet based banking and downloading "illegally" every day (from both trusted sites like "the Pirate Bay", and more fishy and obscure). That is why I consider the claim a lie - no you should not buy avast! Internet Security upgrade if you shop/bank online or use social networks, because you are more likely to keep your money if you don't then if you do.
Other then that, I'm happy with avast. It's fast, doesn't do more then you ask it to do (except present you with adds ofcourse), and it's very up to date. You (avast!) are doing a really great job with it.
So is there a way to turn the ad off?
Best regards.
