Disable Avira Nagware

I have found Avira Free to be quite a decent piece of software and as such have switched over to it from AVG. However the nagware is a pain in the arse! This is a very simple way of disabling it in XP Pro/Vista Ultimate.

1. Open the ‘Local Security Policy (Local Security Settings) Panel’, found under ‘Control Panel > Administrative Tools’.
2. Open the ‘Software Restriction Policies’ directory.
3. If there is an ‘Additional Rules’ directory ignore this step, otherwise click the ‘Action’ menu (at the top) and select ‘Create New Restriction Policies’
4. Open the ‘Additional Rules’ directory
5. Click the ‘Action’ menu (at the top) and select ‘New Path Rule…’
6. Click the ‘Browse’ button and navigate to your Avira install directory, usually ‘C:Program FilesAviraAntiVir PersonalEdition Classic’
7. Highlight ‘avnotify.exe’ and click the ‘Ok’ button.

Now Avira will function as normal, however you won’t get the annoying nag screen every time it updates.