I’ve been in the IT biz 30+ years…I do agree with your quick assessment…but is software updater still in the Avast Free ?
I’m still on V8…have many PCs to “update” but scared silly about 2014. I’m waiting for 2014 to get more solid…there are still bugs I see as critical and still in my mind make it BETA software. Here is a show-stopper one for me there are been no response to: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=140354.0
Once I do the “upgrade” I am going to store/backup my V8 config on each machine, uninstall and do clean 2014 install, then re-load config. I know many folks have been OK with the GUI “updater” but seems like 90% of all solutions to most posts are to do uninstall/clean-install. :slight_smile:

Also, is the “Browser Protection” option the Online Security item/add-in that is first thing everyone is told to disable ?
I’ve had it off on V8 since the beginning.