I’ve had auto-update disabled because I do manual updates at my discretion. I don’t think it’s cool for applications to mess with the stability and integrity of my system at their whim. Anyway, somewhere in between running a manual update, renewing my registration, and running a full boot-time scan, Avast decided to allow itself to auto-update. That’s kind of annoying.
What I find really irritating, is that when I came back to my computer after the boot-time scan, I find a Chrome window open (Chrome was not previously installed) to a page with Avast branding welcoming me to my “new browser”. I wasn’t asked to install this. There was also an auto-update window open completing an update, so I assume that Chrome was bundled in the update.
This is so unprofessional, Avast. This is the sort of stuff that drove me away from the other anti-virus software companies. I thought you were better than that.
You should have gotten a screen to opt-put the installation of Chrome.
It is known problem that some people didn’t get it when installing.
The problem is (allegedly) fixed in the 2014 RC editions.
I uninstalled it right away. I didn’t ever see an opt-out. I think I may have opt-ed out though, when I ran the manual update. It was this auto-update that installed chrome though, and I certainly never got an opt-out for that. Further irritating because I didn’t enable auto-update to begin with. I probably should have double-checked that setting after the manual update.
Just got an update to 2014.9.0.2007 and after the requested restart it installed Chrome.
No choice - just straight into a Chrome install.
Well pissed off !!!
Oh and BTW = what’s with the “the topic has not been posted in for at least 20 days” when the post before mine was today and the topic started 2 days ago ???