Avast 6 Upgraded to 7 by itself when set to Ask

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Early this morning Avast Free 6.0.1367 Upgraded to 7 by itself (Win7 Pro SP1 64Bit)
Avast 6 “Program” setting was set to “Ask when and update is available”.
There was no message telling me an update was available before I went to bed. Nobody was using the computer at the time of update. I did not even find out this happened until a sandbox prompt came up and I noticed it was a Avast 7 one.

Is this a bug in Avast 6 or Avast 7?

PS I already had Google Chrome installed, hopefully it would not have installed that also

Here is part of the setup log;
06:45:42 min/gen Started: 26.02.2012, 06:45:42
06:45:42 vrb/gen Operation set to INST_OP_UNKNOWN
06:45:42 min/gen Old version: 57f (1407)
06:45:42 nrm/int SYNCER: Agent=Syncer/5.00 (ais-1407;p)
06:45:42 min/gen Running SETUP_AIS-57f (1407)
06:45:42 nrm/sys Operating system: Windows 7 ver 6.1, build 7601, sp 1.0 [Service Pack 1] x64
06:45:42 nrm/sys Memory: 28% load. Phys:4194303/4194303K free, Page:4194303/4194303K free, Virt:2035944/2097024K free
06:45:42 vrb/sys Computer WinName: ******
06:45:42 min/sys Windows Net User: SYSTEM
06:45:42 min/gen Cmdline: /checkupdate /verysilent
06:45:42 vrb/gen DldSrc set to inet
06:45:42 vrb/gen Operation set to INST_OP_CHECK_UPDATE
06:45:42 min/gen Old version: 57f (1407)
06:45:42 vrb/reg Deleted registry: Software\AVAST Software\Avast\UpdateReady
06:45:42 nrm/sys Using temp: C:\Windows\TEMP_asw_aisI.tm~a05276 (42146M free)
06:45:42 nrm/gen SGW32AIS::CheckIfInstalled set m_bAlreadyInstalled to 1
…

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Yikes! I hope this doesn’t happen to me. I’ve have mine set to ‘Ask’ also.

I like to make sure the updates are okay before doing anything.

I’ve just been reading through all the problems with Avast 7 in the threads for the last 3 days, and waiting. :-\

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We’re not aware of any such problem.
The log you posted was created after the program was already updated - i.e. the update didn’t happen in the morning, but earlier, certainly before the previous shutdown/reboot.
Are you sure there was nobody else at the computer before?

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I would suggest you NOT have avast program update set to ‘ask’, but have it set it to ‘manual’ for program update. I always get a CNET notice a day or two later that there’s a new version out. (Plus, the summary screen of avast tells you there is an update available). Then I come to the forum to see if there are any problems.

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the same problem — avast updating from 6 to 7 despite being set to ASK — also happened to Iroc9555

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For a moment there I thought I was the only one with this behavior.

Yes Igor I did report it the morning after the inicial release.

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=93866.msg748165#msg748165

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I’ve never had it happen before, but I think I’ll set the program update to ‘Manual’ for now, just in case. :slight_smile:

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Cynderella28.

I have ran Avast! forever, 10 years now, and I’ve never had this happening before when there is a new version available.

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OK, log files show it installed on 23.02.2012, 22:29:57
That was Thursday at 10:29PM
That was so far back I might not remember what was going on at the time. Sorry if my report was a false alarm, I just do not know.