Win 10 is a disaster???
Nah, gotta love it!
Used XP for all the years and still run it but doesn’t compare to W10 in just soooo many ways.
nuff said. 
Great decision! upvote!
Bye-bye Xp and Vista!
Why is this thing going to happen to all Avast Free Antivirus users? I didn’t see that coming before. I don’t want to have my computer files infected by viruses again.
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It isn’t happening to all Avast free users only those still using windowsXP/Vista.
For that matter it would presumably also happen to those using Avast Pro, AIS, etc. if they were still using XP/Vista (less likely). -
This has been talked about in the forums for some considerable time, this topic finally gives this action a date.
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Avast 18 will still work on XP/Vista with the current restrictions on elements that don’t work with XP/Vista. Virus definitions will still work.
All of your questions have essentially been covered in the very first post of this topic.
To make it clear: Nothing will happen to users on XP/Vista. They will get full protection, virus definition updates. They just won’t get latest version of program.
…it seems support for xp stopped some weeks ago, due to an avastUI.exe update bug, also reported a few others on here.
for a fix, see my reply here: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=222054.msg1477564#msg1477564
For XP SP2 (according to your other post you have) that support stopped even further back than that.
partly, but they still provide database updates for v10
CHANGE: Due to the introduction of 64bit version in next release we decided to move the end of support of Windows XP/Vista one month earlier. So the next version planned for end of November won’t support XP/Vista.
@ Martin,
For clarification, ending support simply means no more program updates. It doesn’t mean ending virus definition updates, correct? Thanks
Surely you have to cater for OSes after Vista/XP that are 32bit OS versions. Dose that not follow if 32bit OSes are going to be supported that too could also support Vista/XP
Hi Bob, that’s correct, see the initial (now edited) post from Martin.
yes, just program updates
I think Avast should continue to make available the 32 bit installer versions. What happens to those of us that have say Win 7 or Win 10 as a 32 bit installation ? ? Like if I put either one on my old Dell which can only do a 32 bit install on a P4 2GB ma RAM … it would still be a modern OS just not the (in my opinion) unneeded 64 bit version … For home use, how many of us are actually using 64 Bit Programs or Apps ? Not many.
Don’t worry, we won’t have 32 and 64 bit installers. We will still have 2 options online and offline installer and both will support 32bit and 64bit…
So if the 32 bit installer will still be done, then what is going to stop installation on XP PRO SP3 ? ? I can understand if not all the components will work, but what about just the basic Antivirus portion without all the (mostly unused) bells & whistles ? ? For example: On my computers I only install: Behavior, File & Web Shields … I just noticed we have a Program Update to: 18.7.2354 … Time to download and update it.
Yes technically you could still run the 18.8 online installer on Windows XP and it will install 18.7. But without any guarantee or support…
I was referring to the use of the Full Offline Installers … Online installers, just do not work properly and take too much time to download. The Full Offline is better and the file is then available for another computer without a second or third download.
We will create specific offline installer for Win XP/Vista, but that won’t be really promoted. I might publish it here on the forum but definitely won’t be presented on www.avast.com…
Nice to know. At least some companies know XP / Vista is not yet a totally dead duck.