We’re sorry to say we no longer support Windows and Mac devices in the “devices” section in my.avast.com accounts. Licenses and Anti Theft should still work fine, but we’re sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you.
Let us know if you have any questions,
The Avast Team
It was very useful for avast used on several devices and for global supervision, even if it had become very random in timing for months.
The fact of being able to manage the number of devices for a paid product also. How will we delete and replace a device with an unavailable hard disk drive (crash or theft )?
Threat statistics on the various devices will also be missing, even if these statistics had already been summarized to a minimum a few years ago.
Even if this was not the main usefulness of the account, I also appreciated the system information, last IP used and update information for all devices
In short, bad news for me even if I understand that few users use their avast account, few even know that it exists.
I wonder what precipitated avast unilaterally towards the abandonment of this feature,…, strange :-
:‘( :’(
This is a bad decision. How will I control all my devices remotely?
My Windows laptop/desktop are more vulnerable to malware than my Android devices. So I need more control over Windows-devices when I away from home.
That function never gave you control of the systems just gave you information about the system.
The function has actually been gone for some time already.
right but you can monitor this information and act accordingly.
The fact that you can’t manage a device through the avast account is not the most important thing.
The most important thing is to know (admin) as soon as possible that something is wrong or has been changed.
Your answer is only valuable with what you do with this function yourself but not with what others do with it
It also doesn’t answer the question why avast decided to remove this feature so quickly without warning .
As a non-English speaker (I’m Dutch) I used the wrong word perhaps. Sorry about that. :-[
I want to say that I had the possibility to see remotely that there is something wrong (i.e. malware) on one of my devices, so I can get in action on that specific device.
Yes,as in many languages (even in English) “control” does not always mean “manage” or “set up” but also “supervise” or “check”
It’s this function that avast has removed and it’s a shame , I doubt the reasons are only because avast thinks it’s useless for users. :-\
Thank you for your replies and comments, we are sorry this action has caused confusion. The reasoning is, we are reducing the data that we collect and we are reducing the data that we connect to other data when the data is not necessary for the functionality of the software. If this decision has broken software functionality, let us know. Our intention is to reduce data collected and connected; our intention is not to break software functionality.
For me , with paid version multi devices , the answer is “yes”
I think it’s useful for those who have more than 1 device, especially if they pay for protection, we should leave the remote supervision of the other devices to the administrator.
Don’t you have the possibility to make this distinction, at least between paid and free (which is no longer linked to an e-mail address), which should considerably reduce the data collected and connected if this is what causes you a problem?
On the other hand, if your servers no longer support this overload and connection errors multiply at the expense of security updates then yes we prefer this way
Has this action to reduce data,and reduce connecting the data
something to do with the europian privacy rules?
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been in force since 25 May 2018. This regulation ensures that the same privacy legislation applies throughout the EU.
Because already in the year 2018 the information about ur own IP & Mac adresses from the devices-info already where removed past year,
and now the devices list are completly gone so its closed for ever?
With paid subscriptions on multiple Windows PCs the the device section was very helpful knowing that “Media-PC” was not switched to the subscription and so was only running the free licence… or that “Some old laptop” that was no longer in use was occupying a license slot.
I would gladly opt in to you collecting just the machine name and what license is attached to that machine if you want to “reduce data collected” to the bare minimum that made the feature at least useful for managing the Avast subscription.
Although having the dashboard that showed if any machine encountered threats or was not updating was nice to see too.
I’m not sure what devices would ever possibly show if Windows & Mac are not listed, I’m not running Avast on a Nix webserver or smart phone…
Hi, funny I just requested why to help desk…Now I understand why.
By the way, since 2 days I’m receiving message of failure when emailing to support@help2.avast.com for help…Another change?
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