HeTiCu13
New Member
Hello.
I have had McAfee AV on my PC's for years, primarily because they offer a considerably lower price plan for protecting all my devices. However, several years ago they started forcing these popup ads from time to time as sales gimmicks. Every year I get so annoyed by not being able to turn those off that I tell myself I'm gonna find someone else for my AV protection, regardless of the cost, when it comes time for renewal. I hate unsolicited, forced sales tactics.
Then, when the renewal time rolls around, I think about it and realize that I haven't seen any popup ads for awhile, so I do a quick research into "best AV of 20xx" and see that McAfee is still considerably the cheapest for several devices. Since I've never been bit by a virus while under their protection I then decide to just renew and live with the ads.
A few weeks ago, this new popup showed up. It says something like: "Your available memory is dangerously low: 7%". The first time I saw it, I immediately brought up Windows Task Manager and checked the Performance tab. It showed my memory usage to be running at around 12%, and GPU memory at about 2%. So I closed the popup and decided to ignore it.
That same popup has come up on all my PC's 2 or 3 times since then, and yet, when I check each PC, none of them are "dangerously low" on memory. It just popped up again, and this time I hit the "More Info" button. That brought up a sales pitch to buy their "PC Optimizing software" for a "low price": $39 (which I don't consider low). I REALLY hate that type of lying, bait-and-switch tactic.
So, my question is: Has anyone figured out how to disable those popup ads in McAfee? If not, can you offer a suggestion on an AV software that does not do that, and has a multi-device plan that won't bankrupt me? Thanks!
I have had McAfee AV on my PC's for years, primarily because they offer a considerably lower price plan for protecting all my devices. However, several years ago they started forcing these popup ads from time to time as sales gimmicks. Every year I get so annoyed by not being able to turn those off that I tell myself I'm gonna find someone else for my AV protection, regardless of the cost, when it comes time for renewal. I hate unsolicited, forced sales tactics.
Then, when the renewal time rolls around, I think about it and realize that I haven't seen any popup ads for awhile, so I do a quick research into "best AV of 20xx" and see that McAfee is still considerably the cheapest for several devices. Since I've never been bit by a virus while under their protection I then decide to just renew and live with the ads.
A few weeks ago, this new popup showed up. It says something like: "Your available memory is dangerously low: 7%". The first time I saw it, I immediately brought up Windows Task Manager and checked the Performance tab. It showed my memory usage to be running at around 12%, and GPU memory at about 2%. So I closed the popup and decided to ignore it.
That same popup has come up on all my PC's 2 or 3 times since then, and yet, when I check each PC, none of them are "dangerously low" on memory. It just popped up again, and this time I hit the "More Info" button. That brought up a sales pitch to buy their "PC Optimizing software" for a "low price": $39 (which I don't consider low). I REALLY hate that type of lying, bait-and-switch tactic.
So, my question is: Has anyone figured out how to disable those popup ads in McAfee? If not, can you offer a suggestion on an AV software that does not do that, and has a multi-device plan that won't bankrupt me? Thanks!
