Had to be really quick to capture the attached screemshot
Can’t even start to type anything in the boxes before the GUI closes
Something like this should have come up in Alpha testing already.
A very clear sign to me that avast isn’t doing anything close to decent Alpha (internal) testing at all. >:(
I’ve been facing a “nasty” bug.
As beta tester, Avast Premier upgraded automatically from the former beta to the latest one.
Unfortunately, though, it broke something.
It seems that auto-upgrade corrupted Avast and, although I was able to log in my Desktop, I didn’t have any internet connection.
LAN was connected, but it was showing no ip, no mask, nothing, just a blank screen.
When I logged in safe mode, internet was working fine 'cause Avast wasn’t loaded.
I tried to repair Avast using another installer and it didn’t work.
Then, I tried to uninstall Avast from the control panel and it froze, so I had to use AvastClear.
When I installed the latest beta using the offline installer from scratch, I worked flawlessly.
This is a bug that happens randomly.
I’ve been facing it few months ago with other builds.
It seems that something doesn’t quite work as it should during the auto-upgrade process and it sometimes corrupts the installation.
An internet connection error, perhaps? Incomplete download? Does Avast checks the integrity of the downloaded version with something like MD5 Checksum?
I’m just asking, out of curiosity.
It’s not a big deal, it’s a beta, we are “advanced” users, we know how to handle simple tasks, but it would be better to fix this “bug”.
Intel i7 6700HQ 2.60 GHz 4c/8th
16 GB of RAM DDR4 (8x2)
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 950M, 4GB GDDR5
Seagate SSHD 1TB connected through Sata III, AHCI.
Windows XP SP3 Professional x86 32bit
Microsoft Extended Support renewed annually.
Hi Francesco Bucciantini, thank you for your feedback. We did not experienced any similar issue with networking during or after update from previous versions despite we do such a test. As you resolved the problem by reinstall the program, there will not be any information left (in logs) that would help us debugging it. Could you please next time enable debug logging (in Settings → Maintenance - Enable debug logging), try to induce the issue again and send the logs (%ProgramData%\Avast Software\Avast\log and %ProgramData%\AVAST Software\Persistent Data\Avast\Logs) to us (e.g. to ftp.avast.com).
Regarding to your question whether Avast checks the downloaded material for integrity - yes, it does, so if the file is “corrupted” it will not be used.
File was uploaded. Filename: NON_log_2017_10_16.7z
Please be noted that there are dumps which are not related to this (can’t sign-in) issue but to another one (Smart Scan issue; already reported in Slack channel).