On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 17:47:54 -0400, Nil
wrote:

On 03 Apr 2014, Char Jackson wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

I've been using Avira on multiple computers for quite a few years
now and haven't found the advertising to be painful at all. Every
4-6 months a small rectangular ad appears in the lower right
corner of the desktop. I click 'Delete all' and it's gone for
another 4-6 months. That's pretty painless.

I just checked my notes to remind me. Avira Free was OK for a long
time, but a year or two ago they started throwing up a big obnoxious ad
every time the virus definitions were updated, which was several times
a day sometimes. For a while, there were a couple of workarounds to
mitigate that, but then they stopped working. That's when I moved to
Avast.

I think I remember what you're talking about, an ad that nearly filled the
screen? I applied one of the 'fixes' to disable those several years ago so I
forgot about them. What I see now is a small rectangle, about an inch high
and 1.5 inches wide, just above the clock in the lower right corner of the
screen, and it only comes up every 4-6 months or so. I dismiss it by
clicking on the almost-hidden Delete All message and don't see it again for
months.

Bottom line: those fixes still work. ;-)

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Char Jackson