Avira

Thanks again, I shall try reconfiguring as suggested. As far as the nag screen goes, I don't quite see it as you do. First off, the screen doesn't just appear at startup, but at random times whenever it pleases. Secondly, I do not consider a program with a nag screen like this to be free. Thirdly, the fact that I agree to use a program doesn't give the manufacturer the right to do as they please on my computer. perhaps they believe that it will encourage users to buy their program, but in my case it does exactly the opposite. I would find a nag screen to be more forgivable on a shareware program, than one that is supposed to be free.

seekermeister said:

Thanks again, I shall try reconfiguring as suggested. As far as the nag screen goes, I don't quite see it as you do. First off, the screen doesn't just appear at startup, but at random times whenever it pleases. Secondly, I do not consider a program with a nag screen like this to be free. Thirdly, the fact that I agree to use a program doesn't give the manufacturer the right to do as they please on my computer. perhaps they believe that it will encourage users to buy their program, but in my case it does exactly the opposite. I would find a nag screen to be more forgivable on a shareware program, than one that is supposed to be free.

I'm very vocal about how software treats users and have been for decades (my MS file must be long!).

The nag screen only comes up during Windows initialization for me _ not sure why it is random for you.

My rant about software, marketing departments, et al would go on for pages...don't get me started on credit card companies! Or tracking cookies!

Regards,
GEWB

i just did the configuration mentioned, and as far as the daily scan, it was already disabled. I did set C: as the only drive to scan under manual scan, but I don't know that I will care for that, because I'm accustomed to the AV working silently and automatically on it's own. This just creates another chore for me to forget about, until something jogs my memory.

EDIT: Since the daily scan was already disabled, and it does perform some kind of scan anyway, I'm not clear on whether I have to do a manual scan or not?

Hmm, daily was disabled but it still runs automatically daily? As to "I'm accustomed to the AV working silently and automatically on it's own" I'm at the other end: I only want it to run when I initiate a scan and on only the drives I specify.

I'll look into the other settings I use and get back to you.

Avira isn't the best out there but it isn't the worst - my opinion only, not meant to start a heated pointless discussion.

Regards,
GEWB

Hopefully, I found the fix for the nag screen:

Disable the Avira Antivir PE Classic avnotify nag screen

I'll have to wait to see what happens.

The changes suggested in the link that I posted only partially worked. I believe that I got rid of the nag screen, but now it requires rebooting after each update. I tried using method 2, because that was the followup, if method 1 resulted in the update/reboots, but when I edited the system permissions as described, it automatically created a duplicate entry for system that won't accept any changes. Avira is walking up the last 13 steps.

Very nice tutorial there GEWB:).

Alternatively I saw this one a couple of months back. Might be interesting.

Disable Avira SearchFree Toolbar Popup Nag Alert

The nag screen that i was complaining about was not for any toolbar, it was for the purpose of nagging people to buy Avira. I have not had any problem (so far) with any toolbars, because I opted out on them during installation of the program.

Thanks, at first I thought your post redundant, because I had already got rid of the nag screen, but I went ahead and applied the setting anyway, and was pleased to find that it didn't demand a restart after an update as it did before. You may have given Avira a pardon...or least a reprieve.