How to get rid of the unwanted Avast ad in your outgoing email

A recent upgrade to Avast's antivirus software (to version 11.1.2245) evidently included a highly undesirable feature: automatic injection of an advertisement for Avast as my email signature. The ad became visible to me only after I clicked the Send button. Below is a screenshot (with some personal details obscured) and the steps I took to shut this off.

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Pretty funny caption on Deadspin, beginning:

Michelle Rhee attempts thought leadership ...

Main point of the story surprised me: I did not know that there's all this hate for Kevin Johnson. (I also did not know the two were married.)

In conclusion, charter schools still seem terrible every time reality intrudes.

What could possibly go wrong?

Seen on Ars:

Engineers from Stanford and Berkeley Universities have figured out how to make radios the size of an ant, which have been created specifically to serve as controllers and sensors in the Internet of Things.

The radios are fitted onto tiny silicon chips, and cost only pennies to make thanks to their diminutive size. They are designed to compute, execute, and relay demands, and they are very energy efficient to the point of being self-sufficient. This is due to the fact that they can harvest power from the incoming electromagnetic signal so they do not require batteries, meaning there is no particular lifetime associated with the devices.

Emphasis mine.

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Cool? Or creepy?

My first phone video!

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Shot at JFK Terminal 5, baggage claim area, last night.