Running Windows 7 Ultra; I use Avira antivirus, free edition, and am very satisfied with it. I have blocked the ad nag screens by denying permissions for them as follows (Avnotify.exe and ipmgui.exe):
Browse to Explore/Programs x86/Avira>Avira Desktop>avnotify.exe>right click>Properties>Security>Edit>Deny all, Ok my way out.
I do this for both files. I have never been annoyed by nag screens, either from full-screen ads or pop-ups in the system tray. However, lately I have been getting the system tray pop-ups. I notice when I enter ipmgui.exe, the permissions are set back to Allow! This has happened several times. How can Avira do this?? I am the Administrator and only I am allowed to reset permissions. I notice this seems to happen after major updates. I also notice that I am getting system tray ad pop-ups even though Impgui.exe is denied in my permissions and blocked in Comodo Firewall. Does anyone have any suggestions on how Avira is doing this and how to stop it?
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Thanks, Claudio, I tried your suggestion. I had one update that required a restart, and so far so good! The settings appear to be holding and so far no nag screens. Instead of setting permissions on the ipmgui.exe registry entries, I just nuked all of them. We will see what happens, but so far it's good.
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Well, the story continues. I set both System and Users to denied both avnotify.exe and ipmgui.exe; now Windows pops up a generated system screen stating that access is not permitted. Annoying. In addition, they now want a reboot every time they update the indexes, and after the reboot all the permissions are reset back to allowed. So... after years of using Avira, I think I will move to Avast. Hopefully they will not have nag screens. Thanks for the suggestions. Just as a thought, I still can't understand how Avira can override the System Administrator's permissions settings. What's the point of them if any outfit can change them as they please??
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Last edited by El Heggunte; 3rd Dec 2012 at 02:33.
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Thanks all, and Claudio; I haven't seen any other complaints in the forums, it seems like this only happens to me (?). I wonder if there is some kind of setting in my system that allows Avira to do this. Attached are the notices I am getting now every time the indexes update. There is a new file in the Avira Desktop directory now, "restart"; I set permissions to block all, interesting to see what happens.
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