"Dustin"  wrote in message 
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>"Buffalo"  wrote in
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>> "Dustin"  wrote in message
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>>>B00ze/Empire  wrote in
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>>>> On 2014-11-21 13:17, Dustin  wrote:
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>>>>> Muse Gruppes  wrote in news:m4mbdq$ehs$1
>>>>> @speranza.aioe.org:
>>>>>
>>>>>> PLEASE stop with the pop up asking me my smart phone habits
>>>>>> every ####ing 15 minutes, I took the survey, I don't own a
>>>>>> "smart phone"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> anyone know a hack to get rid of this annoyance?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes. Go in your settings, opt out of the community. It's a
>>>>> creative way to show you advertising. You can turn it off.
>>>>
>>>> Nope, I'm participating in the "Community" and no pop-ups. Of
>>>> course the only "module/option/tool" I run is the on-access
>>>> scanner, so maybe that's it, some other portion of Avast...
>>>
>>>Argh.. Damnsit. I don't wanna load avast on any of these machines
>>>just to find that stupid little setting. Did you do a clean
>>>install, or overwrite an older version? If clean install, you
>>>should occasionally get popups advertising various things the
>>>company can do for you. Next time I'm with a client that runs
>>>avast, I'll document where the setting is. I'm just used to
>>>turning it off when I do a custom install.
>>>
>>>Sorry I can't be of any more help as is.
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>> The choice for Community is: Open Avast User Interface, click on
>> Settings, Click on General, look at "Participate in  the Avast
>> Community". I leave it unchecked. I never had it checked so I
>> really don't know what it does or doesn't do.  :)
>> But, rt clk on the Avast icon in the taskbar and checking Silent
>> gaming mode, does wonders with pop-ups!!!!!
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>I noticed you mention silent gaming mode before to deal with popups,
>but there is actually a setting that turns off the advertising the OP
>is seeing without turning off the other messages Avast might display.
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You may be correct, but it may only have that option on the pd version to 
control pop-ups.
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