DavidR
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Unfortunately there is no clarity over a specific date, but we can look back at the prior history of what avast software has actually done in supporting older OSes and avast versions.
If say avast 9 (when that comes along), can’t or doesn’t support win2k or XP, etc. etc. then there would be nothing to stop the user keeping avast 8 provided the virus definitions update structure/function doesn’t suddenly change. And we have seen in the past that that doesn’t just get dropped immediately.
Whilst my answer is up to a point speculative, I think avast support for XP isn’t going to disappear immediately MS end its support life cycle.