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(Copied from AV help forum)
I’m a new user to CIS, and I too have been looking for a way to disable the AV update balloons. I see in another thread that AV updates are done daily, sometimes several times a day, and I don’t want to be interrupted by these messages. I have had incidents in the past where system tray balloon messages from other applications have corrupted the screen while I’m running full-screen graphics applications or games, and sometimes they have even crashed my machine. I haven’t had a Comodo balloon appear right in the middle of a tricky lap around Monza yet, (as happened regularly with McAfee), but I’m worried it could happen at any time!
As an alternative, how about simply animating the systray icon when an update is taking place? As red and green colours are used to show firewall/Internet activity, maybe you could get the icon to flash blue during AV updates? This would not be as distracting as a balloon, but would still show the user that an update was taking place.
And I agree with the previous poster, turning off balloon messages in the config screen should turn off these messages as well. Or maybe add an extra config option? That would give your customers more flexibility.
Thanks.
EDIT: I’ve never used polls before, so I’m afraid I set this post up incorrectly. I’ve now set up a poll, so admins please delete this post as soon as is convenient. Thanks.