How to Turn off Avast Notifications?
The guide is about Avast 19.8.2393 with UI version 1.0.437. In case your version is older, we recommend you to update it first.
- Go to the taskbar, click on the Avast icon and launch it.
- On the block appearing on the screen, click on Menu.
- Then select Settings.
- In settings, go to notification
- There you need to check use silent mode and turn off all pop-ups, alerts, and messages.
- Further, you can uncheck Enable Avast sounds to silent the sounds.
After that, you will receive a confirmation message that the Silent mode is turned on. That means the notifications and popups are now restricted from showing on the desktop.
Security risks:
There could be one concern that either turning off notifications will prevent the software from detecting and removing the viruses from the files. To answer your query, there is less security risk involved with turning the notifications off.
Although turning off notification will turn off the security messages too. But the software will scan the files and generate alerts in the background. It means that any potential virus will be detected and removed without letting you know.
In order to keep an eye, you can open and check the alert once a week to see the updates. You might miss out on the type of virus detected and the files that caused it otherwise.
In case you don’t need Avast to keep running in the background, you can just turn the Avast off entirely and only use it when you want to.
Conclusion:
Avast is very useful and reliable software to protect your device from malware attacks. We keep downloading files from unknown sources without realizing that they could have a virus in them. To protect our data from being damaged in any way, it is compulsory to install an antivirus.
Reference:
https://support.avast.com/en-us/article/Antivirus-popup-notifications/
