Appreciate mentioning me in the changelog for firewall. I didn’t expect that to happen yet my name was there. I also appreciate devs still care about user input. Still a very rare trait in the software industry, especially from very big companies.
Avast shows enlightened self-interest and respect by taking note of the obervations of users. Not to do so shows contempt for users. To ignore users’ views is tantamount to cutting off their own noses to spite their faces. I wander off the Avast path from time to time. The experience of that makes me respect Avast all the more. The little popups are a price well worth paying.
It’s an option that needs to be selected in a custom install
as explained here: https://youtu.be/IxozZFC9XRk
You can also select it later by using the option in
troubleshooting to modify what you’ve installed.
On our (two) systems, this version (22.1) was automatically installed, while our ‘Update’ setting is ‘Remind me when an update is available’ (not ‘Automatically update my appllcation’ [sic]).
Is it possible that a notice did appear but doesn’t stay on the screen until you it one way or another. EDIT: Though I would expect that it shouldn’t update unless you initiated the update.
If I were in your position with an old version (and not wanting it updated), I would have placed the Program Updates to Manual.
In that old topic an Avast Team member requested logs to try and pin down the problem.
There was also a suggestions to switch of the QUIC/HTTP2 setting in avast.
Did you do either of these two ?
Also
Starting a new topic as suggested would keep it out of a topic likely to have multiple threads and not your specific issue.