Aggressive selling tactics

Hello Dennis, 

We are sorry for the inconvenience caused to you. You are receiving promotional pop-up for other AVG programs.

We do have option to disable promotional pop-up in AVG program's privacy settings. Refer the below article to disable AVG pop-ups :

Managing privacy settings in AVG products (https://support.avg.com/SupportArticleView?urlname=AVG-Privacy-settings)

Please try the above steps and let us know if its working for you. Thank you.

I used AVG many years ago when it was one of the few free virus checkers out there.
I've no doubt that it is effective so I bought a copy the other day.

Autorenewal through Digital River makes cancellation difficult and only the involvement of support staff got that issue resolved.
Then the software tells me that I have a privacy issue and need to spend more on AVG VPN. I'm using Surfshark VPN so that is nonsense.
Then I am told that my PC is cluttered and I need to clean things with AVG cleaner. I want most of that clutter.
It further tells me that I have errors in my registry but over emphasises the problem.

All I wanted was a simple security app.
AVG seems to create problems to generate sales.....am I wrong?
Hello Dennis, 

We are sorry for the inconvenience caused to you. You are receiving promotional pop-up for other AVG programs.

We do have option to disable promotional pop-up in AVG program's privacy settings. Refer the below article to disable AVG pop-ups :

Managing privacy settings in AVG products (https://support.avg.com/SupportArticleView?urlname=AVG-Privacy-settings)

Please try the above steps and let us know if its working for you. Thank you.