AntiVir is probably the best free antivirus software. It´s free for non commercial use and updates its virus definitions regulary just like the professional version. The free version however has the habit to display a advertisment popup after each update, which normally means that you see this ad every single day. It is always the same ad and I don´t see a reason for this at all, once is fine but everyday ?
I show you how to disable this advertisment without tampering with the rest of AntiVir. This workaround is only working in windows xp (pro). Run “secpol.msc” which opens the local security settings. Select software restrictions policy on the left and there additional rules. Right click in the window on the right and chose new path rule. Click on browse and navigate to avnotify.exe. (normally in program files/ AntiVir Personaledition Classic/).
Select disallowed as the security level and hit ok to close the dialog. What we´ve done know is that we forbid the execution of avnotifiy.exe which shows the Ads. This works as long as the producer is not updating avnotify.exe itself and changing its name in the process. If that is the case repeat the steps to disallow the new named exe as well.
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Nice one!
Another thing I dislike besides spam, popups.
I am glad you found how to disable that pop up.
I use avast myself.
i just infected with a “trust cleaner”. lets see if it can take it off.
One more thing abt AntiVir : You can end all process except AVGuard in background. You don’t need the icon in system tray to stay protected nor the update service .. you can do it manually. As a result of all this AntiVir has the smallest memory footprint.
P.S Use MSConfig
Didn’t work for me. Do I need to set it on avnotifiy.dll, too?
Perfect it works! Thanks a lot.
Thanks Martin! Much appreciated. The popup notifications were starting to slowly drive me mad…
Now if I can just find a way to destroy the most horrendous and insistent popup dialog of all: “Restart Windows now or later to install updates” … LATER! And stay away!!!!
…Again, thanks very much for this fix on the Avira popups.
If you, like me, are stuck with Windows XP Home, you can still do this mod. (AFIK, Vista users are out of luck, as usual.)
Just open command prompt in the directory where AntiVir is installed (usually you can type “cd Program FilesAviraAntiVir PersonalEdition Classic” [without the quotes] in Command Prompt).
Now run the command “cacls avnotify.exe /D <username>” (without the quotes), replacing <username> with the name you use to login to Windows.
If you are an administrator, repeat the command for any other users on your system.
Voila! You just did something that both Avira and Microsoft don’t want you to do!
Crud. I didn’t notice the lack of backspace!
Here is the first command I mentioned (in parentheses)
cd \\Program Files\\Avira\\AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic
YESTERDAY I DIDN’T HAVE TO HAVE MY COMMENTS APPROVED. WTF IS UP?
Yes, trlkly=trlkly2
I’d prefer the second one be posted, or my original fixed.
Thanks for the tip! isn’t it amazing that software that is supposed to protect from unsolicited annoying behavior such as virus, is exercising exactly this behavior itself. Would be interesting to ask creators of Antivir what’s the rationale behind their product not detecting itself.
@Alicson,
How to postpone the nag screen about restarting after updates (you cannot completely disable it .. but you can make it popup every 24 hours instead of every few minutes..)
http://thebackroomtech.com/2007/10/12/how-to-delay-the-windows-automatic-updates-reboot-nag-screen-and-the-automatic-reboot-after-applying-updates/
thank u
I can confirm that this brilliant fix also works on Windows 7 (Ultimate 64bit)
Love it! Thanks
Neat one.
In the new antivir (currently in beta testing, but already in the final stage), they finally have removed it.
Nag screens never appear in beta products, but are usually added to the final product release. So we will have to wait until its released to know.
trlkly/trlkly2, you rock my WORLD! :)
Tried the notify trick but my edition of Avast 4.8.1335 has no such file not even a DDL of that name so there must be another file [ maybe in the REG] that does it.