It looks like MSE (Windows Defender) is the only ad-free freeware AV.
You have Avira which partnered with Uniblue and Ask Toolbar, AVG's GUI is full of ads, Panda Cloud only shows ads for its paid version and now Avast with Softonic? Even most paid AV's displays ads or come with unwanted toolbars or junkware.
I never thought Avast would do something like this but I still haven't seen any of these ad notifications, I can't figure out why.
I still believe Avast is the best freeware AV but this is not acceptable, I'm sure some users will start to move to others solutions if this continues. I still can not access Avast forum, I'm not sure what the problem is.
Thanks.