Mine is still not updating stuff automatically (yet), so either the ones the items listed in Needs Updating can’t for some reason, or I’m just getting lucky? I thought maybe this was because the issue was fixed but then Francesco83 said that their apps still updated today.
Avast: please advise immediately!
It’s not really a question of what this display represents.
The question is why these automatic updates have been activated (performed) for users of the free version.
I’m thinking more of a bug that (temporarily?) elevated “SU” to “premium” status for “free” users … and since the box is checked by default, the updates happened.
It should also be noted that a few weeks ago avast updated its database of applications to be updated via “SU”… Before, I’d never been asked to check “Skype”, “OpenOfice”, “MS Visual C++” and many others.
Maybe that’s why users have noticed all these updates here
I’m not sure if this topic hasn’t generated a response by Avast, as I no longer see the Software Updater checked in the UI.
Perhaps in VPS, Engine updates.
I’m not sure if this topic hasn’t generated a response by Avast, as I no longer see the Software Updater checked in the UI.
Perhaps in VPS, Engine updates.
Go to a different area in the Avast UI, then go back to that setting. You’ll see it filled in.
It sound stupid, but that’s the case.
I would agree it is stupid, a fix in theory on first view but return and it is checked but very distinctly greyed out.
And in the Software Updater section it is clear is it is a paid product 'Automatic updates are available in Premium Security.
I don’t have that and unlike some that are reporting program updates, I haven’t had that.
I think that the Restart to finish (there is no check mark) which is very misleading,
There’s probably no checkmark because the checkmark needs to be filled in manually on that screen. If it’s already updated and just needs a restart, there is nothing to check in on that program.
It hasn’t updated anything - I haven’t restarted since my last reply.
I can no longer even get to the location where I took my last screenshot.
It’s telling you to restart to finish the update. Similar to how when you update avast versions, you need to do a restart for it to complete. Same thing here, just with other software.
And it says right in the screenshot where to go to get to the last screenshot.
I give up we are going round in circles here.
Which is why I also bumped the 24.10 topic and gave the link here, in the hope it will get some attention.
We’re going around in circles because you’re either being deliberately obtuse or you simply can’t read your UI screen properly. It’s clear as day that your 7-Zip msi app was updated to the latest version and just needs your computer to restart to finish (like a lot of software updates). Whether it was updated by Avast’s Software Updater or it was updated through 7-Zip itself (either manually by you or through an automatic mechanism the program itself uses) and Avast is simply reporting its status isn’t quite clear from the screenshot, but the program is still requiring a restart to finish the update. In the same screenshot it also indicates that there are 4 applications that “Need Updating”, so perhaps those other three aren’t updated yet or they are and have the same “Restart to finish” note under it. Same with the 9 that are listed in “Up to Date”. If those 9 weren’t manually updated by you nor automatically by the app itself in the background, then that could mean that Avast updated those through its Software Updater and you simply haven’t noticed. That information, whether you choose to share it or not, could be fairly useful to give better insight for your machine and Avast installation.
You simply highlighting, over and over, that the Automatic update feature is meant for Premium Security is also pointless and unhelpful at this point. We know that it’s meant for the Premium version only, but obviously something about this is not working correctly and is causing this to affect a lot of users of the free version. Due to this, I don’t think the box in the settings next to Automatically update applications should be ignored simply because it’s greyed out and doesn’t let free users check or uncheck this.
To use SU with premium sometimes, the fact that there’s an exclamation mark and a need to restart means that the update has been performed (either with SU or manually by the program) and that it’s waiting for a restart to install correctly, and “7-zip msi” is one of them, otherwise it simply says that the app isn’t up to date (without the exclamation mark).
I don’t see why it should be any different with avast free
I remain quite sure that if DavidR restarts and returns to SU, 7-zip will appear in the “up-to-date” apps.
I’m also an Avast Free AntiVirus user and as of the 27th, various programs had been updated without my consent. This of course concerned me, and I wondered if my system or network had been compromised. Despite “Automatic updates” not being enabled in “Software Updater”, nine programs were all updated to their latest versions.
I downgraded or reinstalled them and tonight only one, which was changed to an older version, was updated.
I also find it rather annoying that there is no way to set any of the now updated programs to the “ignore” list and only programs Avast identifies as needing updates can be set to “ignore”.
This unauthorized updating of programs has made me strongly reconsider using Avast, or suggesting it to anyone.
Did I read coreect that Software Updater component is now named Cleanup?
I do not use Software Updater. I have also unticked Cleanup from Avast Free installed components list. I hope that avoids any unexpected automated updates that I have read about in this thread.
I hope Avast devs, sort this inconsistent Software Updater issue out as it is resulting is loss of trust in the AV product.
Not quite.
It’s still called software updater, but it’s integrated into the “cleanup” component.
Before, when you used add/remove to modify components, you had software updater and cleanup… now there’s just cleanup.
If you have unchecked the box, you should no longer find “software updater” in the UI.
I unchecked the Cleanup component and restarted and if you try Software Updater - you get a notice you need to install this Feature.
Thank you DavidR for the clarification.
But I’m disappointed. Avast now wants you to buy Premium to switch off automatic software updates i.e. to buy to opt-out instead of opt-in previously.
Now Avast is saying that for Avast Free, you install automatic software update or else lose the whole Cleanup feature.
Avast Free allows you to install or not Cleanup. But not in Avast One which means those who don’t want automatic software update can’t use Avast One.
BTW, does anyone know how, in Avast Free, to disable the Alerts in Notifications in top right hand corner? Or, I hope Avast has a ‘Dismiss All’ in Alerts like in History in Notifications.
I think it was a screw up (technical term) that the Premium Product ‘Software Updater’ somehow got released into the Avast Free product under the combined function Cleanup.
As Chris said
Personally I do my own housekeeping in regard to getting rid of ‘Junk Files’, who is to say what is Junk, in my opinion not a program. One man’s Junk is another man’s treasure as they say
It is combined with cleanup for premium users too
If it’s a screw up for the free version, it’s also a screw up for the premium version as long as SU also appears (greyed out and locked) for the free version.
But I don’t think so, we’d have to find the place in the forum where avast guy explained that SU had been moved to cleanup, I think it was 6 or 7 months ago.
Is it this post you are thinking of:
Nice bit of detective work - thanks for the link back to the topic.
I think the Avast UI Team need to get their heads together and come up with a solution that is good for both Premium and Free version users. Should a critical tool ‘software updater’ for paid version users, be within a module heading ‘CleanUp’ that can be removed.
Many people don’t particularly like auto updates and less so, clean-up tools. I really don’t trust those type tools with my data.