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Default Avast Sig (WAS Major fail!)

On Saturday, May 5, 2018 at 2:43:05 PM UTC-5, Jill McQuown wrote:
> On 5/3/2018 9:03 PM, Janet wrote:
> > In article >,
> > says...
> >>
> >>>
> >> (snipped annoying advertising)

> >
> > sorry about that, not my choice. It appeared unasked on new computer and
> > I've yet to find a way to get rid of it.

>
> Click on the Avast icon. Click on settings (the icon looks like a cog
> wheel) and *de-select* Enable Avast email signature. You may need to
> close and restart Avast to get the change to take effect.
>
> It's just one of my pet peeves. Why give a company free advertising?
> The same sort of message appears on emails sent from an iPad or iPhone.
> (From what I understand, those can also be turned off.) I'm not going
> to rush out and buy [whatever] based on a product sig line. To me it's
> just excess clutter on the screen.
>
> Again, it's just a pet peeve. I'm not singling you out. I complained
> about the sig when (I think it was) Dave started using Avast. All's
> fair. Heh. When I started using Avast one of the first things I did was
> figure out how to turn that darn thing off.
>
> Jill


If you are using FREE software you get everything you PAY FOR! Like Facebook! But I run Adblock Plus and FBPurity so I see NO Facebook ads!

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