For crying out loud, don't post articles like these! The reason people have been able disable the nag without Avira acting on the problem, is that a sufficient small portion of the users were taking advantage. We had to dig around forums to find solutions. By bringing the solution (well, kind of a solution, the article actually mentions a method which causes the updater to continually try and re-update avnotify.exe) to news headlines, everyone's going to take a stab. Avira will have no choice but to change their nag program to ensure it runs, else disable avguard.