Avira and AVG are two of the greatest and most popular free anti-virus programs on the web today. Both of these programs offer deluxe versions of their software that will give you more protection and some perks but the advertisements can be really annoying.
I only mention AVG in this article because it is something of an alternative to Avira and is slowly being replaced, however, Avira has pop ups that are very annoying and are very close to spam. It isn’t something that comes up when you least expect it but something that will pop up while you are watching the season premier of House. Not cool…
There is a way to remove these pop ups on Microsoft Windows Vista. In order to stop these ads from coming up you will need to follow the following instructions. First open ‘Start’ > ‘Computer’ > OS C: (or whatever drive your operating system is on.) > ‘Program Files’ > ‘Avira’ > ‘Avira Desktop.’ Now you will need to locate the file called. “avnotify.exe.” Right click this file and go down to properties. A window will appear, you will need to click on the security tab then click edit halfway down the window. Now you will need to adjust the read & execute and set it to deny. If the read does not automatically fill in you will need to deny that as well.
Now just close the file and go back to coding without ever having the Avira adverts annoy you again.