Avira Notifier "nag-screen"

Having recently setup a couple of PCs again I turned to my favourite free antivirus solution: AVIRA, to protect them. Since it’s been a while since I’ve installed this application I forgot that it has a “nag-screen” to convince you to go pro. Turning this off is actually pretty easy, even if the program itself does not provide an option for this.

For XP and Vista Users follow these instructions:

1. Go to Start-> Control Panel
2. Choose 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 Desktop\ and double-click avnotify.exe
6. Set the security level to Disallowed-> apply-> ok

Et voila no more annoying pop-up window at start up!

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