Hello Peter,
Thank you for reaching out to us with your concerns. Many of our users find these offers useful: they rely on them to upgrade to our higher levels of protection. By doing so, they help fund your free version of the protection.
We also handpick offers from our other products or those of partners we feel can add to your security or digital experience. If you have suggestions on how these offers might be more relevant to you or less intrusive, please let us know. We are always working on improving your experience with AVG. Thank you for understanding.
I'm not sure how to respond to that "answer"…
I'm perfectly aware of the purpose of advertising, thank you.
I have seen and read the notification, I am aware of what it's offering, and I have made a conscious decision to refuse the upgrade.
How could the offers be less intrusive? Have the software respect my input and settings! I have selected not to be subjected to notifications, yet here they are. I have declined the offer numerous times, yet it persists. I have enabled a built-in function of AVG which should prevent interference with full-screen applications, yet AVG force-minimises full-screen programs to shove its advertisements in my face, causing crashes and data loss!!!
Please do me the decency of actually answering the question I ask:
How do I definitively stop the popup notification asking me if I want to upgrade to Internet Security?
How can I stop this popup notification insisting that I upgrade to Internet Security? I have clicked on "Keep current protection" innumerable times now only to be completely ignored. It's a real pest and is now becoming actively damaging in that it will even interrupt full-screen applications, sometimes crashing them to desktop and causing loss of data!
I have unchecked all the Notification Options check boxes and enabled Gaming Mode but this popup persists!
The irony of a company employing these techniques to attempt to inspire trust and convince interested parties to purchase their product is just exquisite!
Hello Jim,
Thank you for reaching out to us with your concerns. Many of our users find these offers useful: they rely on them to upgrade to our higher levels of protection. By doing so, they help fund your free version of the protection.
We also handpick offers from our other products or those of partners we feel can add to your security or digital experience. If you have suggestions on how these offers might be more relevant to you or less intrusive, please let us know. We are always working on improving your experience with AVG.
Thank you for understanding.
Thank you.
So this functionality is by design!? I see…
Thank you Avinash for your answer.
I accept the numerous ads in a free version from time to time but receiving the same one every day is just too much. If it stays like that i will remove avg free from all my pcs and mobile devices.
Hello L S,
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.
We certainly understand your concern.
We request you to disable the Advisory notifications of AVG program and see whether you are getting the advertisement popups.
Please follow the instructions below to avoid popup's from the AVG program.
1. Open AVG program.
2. Click "Options" on the right top corner and select "Advanced Settings".
3. Select Appearance on the left panel of the settings.
4. Please uncheck the checkbox "AVG Advisor Notification" .
5. Then in left side please look for Privacy Preference and select it.
6. Now please untick first option in right side.
7. Click "Ok" to save the changes.
Hello Jim,
Thank you for reaching out to us with your concerns. Many of our users find these offers useful: they rely on them to upgrade to our higher levels of protection. By doing so, they help fund your free version of the protection.
We also handpick offers from our other products or those of partners we feel can add to your security or digital experience. If you have suggestions on how these offers might be more relevant to you or less intrusive, please let us know. We are always working on improving your experience with AVG.
Thank you for understanding.
Thank you.