Tool for Avira free antivirus users

[Kirby]

So yeah, if you use Avira's Free Antivirus, you know about the annoying popup that it has.

I made a simple macro in Auto-It to idle as a background process simply to kill it as soon as it pops up.

If you're not familiar with Auto-It, it's a platform upon which you can make macros to automate anything you can do with your two hands on a computer, and those macros can do a lot - and can be compiled into little standalone .exe files.


Here's the files:

Here's the precompiled .exe - Either start manually when you start your PC, or put in the startup folder. It only consumes ~1.4MB of memory.


Also, because AutoIt macros can be very easily designed to either conceal or deploy a virus and pwn Security Programs, A lot of Antiviruses pick up any pre-compiled AutoIt macro as a virus, so...
Here's the source code, if you would like to compile it yourself.

If you choose to compile it yourself, you'll need to download the AutoIt Full Installation from here, install that and then compile the script using the AutoIt .au3 > .exe converter.

I commented the fuck out of the .au3 file, so if you want to look it over and have no real clue what you're looking at, it's been dumbified.
If you want to look @ the source code, I reccomend using this editor, made for .au3 files, because it will hurt your eyes in notepad.



Can also be edited to manually close any other annoying popup windows or nag screens when they open as well.

[Vandamguy]

been using avira for 5 or 6 years now, every day a popup

testing this now, will deploy if success.

[Kirby]

Oh yeah, hover mouse over trayicon to show # of popups killed so far. ( My 2nd PC is @ 14 ^.^ )