How to disable the ad popup in AntiVir

Posted by Martin in Security  Tags: , , ,

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Jul



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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gnome says:

Nice one!

thunder7 says:

Another thing I dislike besides spam, popups.
I am glad you found how to disable that pop up.
I use avast myself.

chris says:

i just infected with a “trust cleaner”. lets see if it can take it off.

Devdatta says:

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

Liam K. says:

Didn’t work for me. Do I need to set it on avnotifiy.dll, too?

Ralf says:

Perfect it works! Thanks a lot.

Alicson says:

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.

trlkly says:

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!

trlkly says:

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

trlkly2 says:

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.

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