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John Smith Buyer Beware: unwanted popup ads even in the paid version of AVG
Buyer Beware: you'll get unwanted popup ads even in the paid version of AVG.
If you consider upgrading to paid version in order to get rid of the unwanted popup ads from AVG, then NO NOT DO IT.
Uninstall AVG and choose Avira, Avast or 360 Total Security.
See this thread for hundreds of unwanted popup ad complaints: https://support.avg.com/answers?id=906b0000000DA01AAG
If you consider upgrading to paid version in order to get rid of the unwanted popup ads from AVG, then NO NOT DO IT.
Uninstall AVG and choose Avira, Avast or 360 Total Security.
See this thread for hundreds of unwanted popup ad complaints: https://support.avg.com/answers?id=906b0000000DA01AAG
If the visitors of this post click on this support thread:
https://support.avg.com/answers?id=906b0000000DA01AAG
...then they can see, that this answer is a canned answer with an empty promise, because you have answered the same thing one year ago. So AVG does not want to stop these annoying popup ads.
AVG interrupts us many times a day during our work with their unwanted popups. I don't believe that if you are really "working on this" like you said, because your programmers can surely switch these ads off with ONE YEAR of hard work. Because you have known about this complaint since last year, as the link above clearly shows that.
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Sorry for the inconvenience caused.
We are aware of this AVG popup issue and we have passed it to our concern team and they are working on this.
Thank you.
If the visitors of this post click on this support thread:
https://support.avg.com/answers?id=906b0000000DA01AAG
...then they can see, that this answer is a canned answer with an empty promise, because you have answered the same thing one year ago. So AVG does not want to stop these annoying popup ads.
AVG interrupts us many times a day during our work with their unwanted popups. I don't believe that if you are really "working on this" like you said, because your programmers can surely switch these ads off with ONE YEAR of hard work. Because you have known about this complaint since last year, as the link above clearly shows that.
We can try fixing the issue regarding this popup issue by escalating to our level two technical team.
If you have our AVG program installed and you keep getting popups please let us know.
We will send the instructions on how to collect log files and get assistance from our level two technical team.
Thank you.
Steps to Enable SmartScreen Filter In I.E
- First of all open Ineternet Explorere in your PC.
- Open Tools menu (or gear icon).
- Select Safety from the drop-down list.
- Click the Report Unsafe website option.
Turn on Block Attack Sites & Web Forgeries of Mozilla Firefox- First of all open Mozilla Firefox browser.
- Click on Firefox button from the top and choose Options >Options from the list.
- In the options Windows, check mark on the following items.
- Warn me when sites try to install add-ons
- Block reported attack sites
- Block reported web forgeries
- Finally, click OK to save the change and restart your browser.
Enable Phishing and Malware Protection in Google ChromeThe staff of AVG says that you can disable these popups in the settings menu, but it is a lie. As you can see on this support thread, even if you disable popup options in the settings menu, they STILL DO POP UP, unstoppable:
https://support.avg.com/answers?id=906b0000000DA01AAG
It's been promised for over a year now. That's really an empty promise from AVG.
I have a good news for you. Changes related to our marketing campaigns (users will be able to change the occurrence rate) are prepared and will be released in one of the upcoming program updates.
Regards,
Jan
AVG Customer Care
AVG Guru
Tjobbe, You need to update your AVG to program version 7687. Have a look @ this link (https://support.avg.com/answers?id=906b00000008oUTAAY).
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here are your pricing options!
I am going to do my research now on PC protection packages and when our subscription is up, we will be moving away from AVG as it seems that four years is not long enough to address the complaints of their customers, so there is little hope that my complaint will have an impact.
I can help you to disable the pop ups
Just to confirm that we are in the same page, kindly share us the screenshot of the pop up you receive.
You can post the screenshot here in your topic. Click on 'Answer' & then click on the 'Image' [mountain symbol] & follow the instructions.