I just went into the taskbar customization and checked the Avast On-access scanner as "Always Hide". I haven't got any pop-ups at all. Try that.
I recently installed Avast. I have Windows Vista.
I find the On-Access Scanning Messages that constantly pop up while I am on-line from the system tray really annoying but have not found a way to "hide"them, other than checking "pause provider" which would leave me un-protected I would assume. Is there some way to have it running but not have to see the list of everything being scanned popping up?

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