Antivir Popups

[spacelord]

Is there anyway to prevent Antivir from displaying the pop ups while I am in full screen games? (XP Pro)

I know its a free app, and I'm not looking to totally kill the pop up.. but it really sucks when you're in the middle of Fallout 3 and it decides to pop up.. which brings me out of the game. There appears to be no way back into the game once that happens. I had to kill the game with Task Manager. So the ideal thing is some way to prevent it from doing it while in games.

Thanks.

 

[country2]

yes from EliteKiller.com - John's Malware Guide

Disable the Avira AntiVir avnotify nag screen :.

Windows 2000:

1. Click Start, and then click Run
2. In the Open box, type gpedit.msc, and then click OK
3. Expand User Configuration, expand Administrative Templates, and then expand System
4. In the right pane, double-click Don't run specified Windows applications
5. Click Enabled, and then click Show
6. Click Add, and then type the executable file name of the program (avnotify.exe) that you want to restrict users from running.
7. Click OK, click OK, and then click OK (NOTE: If domain-level policy settings are defined, they may override this local policy setting.)
8. Quit Group Policy Object Editor
9. Restart the computer

Windows 2000/XP: (2000 & XP Pro do not require you to boot into safe mode)

1. Boot into Safe Mode (tap F8 repeatedly after you restart the computer)
2. Log in using the Administrator account
3. Go to C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic\avnotify.exe
4. Right-click avnotify.exe-> properties-> security-> advanced
5. Under the Permissions tab click on SYSTEM under Permission entries:
6. Edit-> Traverse Folder / Execute File-> deny-> ok ->apply-> yes -> ok-> ok
7. Reboot the computer into Normal Mode (start-> shutdown-> restart)

Windows XP Pro & Vista Business/Ultimate/Enterprise

1. Start-> Control Panel
2. Administrative tools-> Local security policy
3. Click on Software Restriction Policy-> Action (at the top)-> create new restriction policies
4. Right-click additional rules (on the right side)-> new path rule
5. Click Browse and navigate to C:\Program Files\(Avira)\AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic\ and double-click avnotify.exe
6. Set the security level to Disallowed-> apply-> ok

Windows Vista Home Premium

1. Go to C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic\avnotify.exe
2. Right-click avnotify.exe-> properties-> security->
3. Under the group or username SYSTEM click edit
4. Put a checkmark under the DENY column for "read and execute"


.: Disable the splash screen :.

1. Open regedit and navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
2. In the right pane double-click avgnt and add /nosplash at the end of the path (ex. /min /nosplash)

 

[lxskllr]

Alternatively, schedule updates when you won't be at the computer. It only pops up during update :^)

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: lxskllr
Alternatively, schedule updates when you won't be at the computer. It only pops up during update :^)

In my experience there's two things:

1. Popup nag at startup, and this can be killed permanently. This is documented.

Anandtech thread on stopping the nag popups

2. Pop up window showing progress of daily update, and on my system it happens at 6:00:00 PM, every day. I was looking for a way yesterday to change that to either not happen at all or at another time of day but didn't succeed. It happened again 24 minutes ago. I made some changes to configuration but the changes I made didn't affect this. I care about this partly because I use my main PC for HTPC/HDTV and the screen goes from maximized to not-maximized when the update screen pops up. The level of annoyance depends on what I'm watching, of course.

Yes, I'm using the free version.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: country2



.: Disable the splash screen :.

1. Open regedit and navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
2. In the right pane double-click avgnt and add /nosplash at the end of the path (ex. /min /nosplash)

Will this stop the daily update notifications?? I'm running XP Pro SP3. Well, I just modified the registry as indicated, so I guess I'll find out next time I'm watching TV on this system full screen at 6:00 PM.

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: Muse

Originally posted by: country2



.: Disable the splash screen :.

1. Open regedit and navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
2. In the right pane double-click avgnt and add /nosplash at the end of the path (ex. /min /nosplash)

Will this stop the daily update notifications?? I'm running XP Pro SP3. Well, I just modified the registry as indicated, so I guess I'll find out next time I'm watching TV on this system full screen at 6:00 PM.

No, that just disables the splash screen at Windows startup.

To get rid of the file download progress window goto View/Administration/Scheduler and set a scheduled event to update at whatever time you like. Under display mode, choose invisible, and then activate that scheduled event. That'll get rid of the file progress window.