I am unable to find any link that allows me to download a full, offline installer. I absolutely do not trust and will not use an online installer. Without an offline installer, I will be unable to reinstall Avast on my computer and, since the current installation is failing miserably, I will no longer be able to use Avast - out of necessity, I will be forced to seek other solutions.
In the sticky post at top of this forum section
In the Main topic for this new build - https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=196445.0.
Thanks, folks. Somehow I managed to stumble across a link to it almost at random.
They sure don’t make it easy to find. I know for a fact I’m not the only user out there who doesn’t trust online installers. They ought to make it easier to find and to choose between installers.
You’re welcome, I’m not a fan of on-line installers either.
You could bookmark that off-line installation file as that filename and location generally remain the same.
I could, and I might, except for two things:
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I really want Avast to make that link more readily available, instead of going to such lengths to obscure it that I can only find it by visiting the forum and stumbling on a post with the link in it.
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After probably 15 years of loyal usage, I’m seriously considering not using Avast at all any more. The latest “upgrade” doesn’t work (https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=196459.15); I haven’t been able to make it work (there’s a limit to how much effort I’m willing to expend to try to fix an obviously broken product); and I can’t find an installer for the previous version that had been (almost) working fine.
The last five years or so of bloat and horrifically buggy releases and back-door installs of unwanted features has broken the trust I used to have in Avast’s products. This failed upgrade may well be the last straw if Avast doesn’t address this problem immediately.
You can do what others do, don’t jump on to the beta testing or install as soon as a new regular program release comes out. Let others be the guinea pigs.
Personally this beta has been plagued with niggles and I believe it should have been running lomger than release on any artificial deadline.
I have been involved in the beta testing for many years, but I have never had any major issues, though some minor niggles and not liking the interface that much.
So far as I know, this was not a beta test. My previous Avast installation was repeatedly informing me that I was “At Risk” by not upgrading to the latest version. Even the system tray icon was showing the yellow triangle indicating that it wanted me to upgrade. (My definitions were already up-to-date; I checked.) There was no indication in any of its warnings, including on the main screen of the UI itself, that the upgrade was a beta version. I would not have knowingly chosen to install a beta version on this computer.
In short, I have no reason to believe this was a beta version, and every reason to believe that this was a fully-tested release version.
It isn’t the beta, but the paint is still wet from the beta, given your previous comments I would leave it to soak for a while and let others iron out any wrinkles.
Other than the fact that they both have the same version number 17.1.2286 and only different build numbers numbers which I have never liked since they introduced this no change in version number when moving from the last beta to the release version. It just causes confusion.
Ordinarily I’d agree, and obviously in the future (assuming I end up putting Avast back on my currently unprotected system), I’m not going to upgrade just because Avast insists that I do so.
But in my defense, Avast was seriously insisting that I needed to upgrade (I had the latest version before this release, I’m pretty sure - I’d been keeping up on updates until then), and I still had enough residual trust in Avast (and enough dislike of yellow alert icons in my system tray) to push forward with this update. As a result, my system is now unprotected until I install something (else?).