I have been using Avast! antivirus free home edition, and until now have
found it effective and trouble-free.

I gave in to an annoying daily popup and downloaded the latest version, 4.8.
It seems to work and update automatically as it should, but now every day
when I boot up I get a popup saying that it may be out of date. This is
obviously false.

How can I stop the popup?

In news:Xns9B098B8901309RCLQUSHB976@216.196.97.136,
MyVeryOwnSelf, after much thought, came up with this jewel:
>> I have been using Avast! antivirus free home edition, and until now
>> have found it effective and trouble-free.
>>
>> I gave in to an annoying daily popup and downloaded the latest
>> version, 4.8. It seems to work and update automatically as it should,
>> but now every day when I boot up I get a popup saying that it may be
>> out of date. This is obviously false.
>
> The same thing happened to me and this seems to work (so far):
>
> Right-click on the Avast! icon in the lower-right corner of the
> screen, and select "Program settings" from the menu.
>
> Then choose "Update (basic)" in the list at the left of the dialog
> box.
>
> Then in the "Program" section click on "Manual."
>
> Then click "OK"

and if that doesn't work, post in the avast forums- you'll find some very
helpful folks there.
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"MyVeryOwnSelf" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:Xns9B098B8901309RCLQUSHB976@216.196.97.136...
>> I have been using Avast! antivirus free home edition, and until now
>> have found it effective and trouble-free.
>>
>> I gave in to an annoying daily popup and downloaded the latest
>> version, 4.8. It seems to work and update automatically as it should,
>> but now every day when I boot up I get a popup saying that it may be
>> out of date. This is obviously false.
>
> The same thing happened to me and this seems to work (so far):
>
> Right-click on the Avast! icon in the lower-right corner of the screen,
> and
> select "Program settings" from the menu.
>
> Then choose "Update (basic)" in the list at the left of the dialog box.
>
> Then in the "Program" section click on "Manual."
>
> Then click "OK"

Thanks for the reply.
Wouldn't doing this defeat the automatic updating? I want to keep that.