Please welcome the version 25.2 of Avast AV released on March 4th 2025
Major public announcement:
DoNotDisturb Mode is enabled for Windows ARM devices - the team hardly worked to get the feature enabled on ARM chipset
Say good bye to the Avast Passwords within the AV user interface. We have disabled the functionality as the legacy extension was completely disabled. There is a new browser extension that doesn’t need the AV to be installed. If you were using the old functionality there is migration wizard.
other fixes to increase product stability and product performance
How to install:
Update from your existing Avast version via Settings → Update → Update program
The second one downloads same version of Avast Free, but has smaller size, so it downloads different file. So the first link has something more. Difference is huge. First link downloads 735 MB file and second one 617 MB file.
What is it? Icarus installer or additional “PUP” software?
It looks like the Release post has been updated after your observation. The online free link now is a stub loader of only 244 K. The offline free link is now the item you showed as being the online link of 753 M (maybe that was a typo of 735), Not sure what happened to the 617 M file, so I can’t speculate about the possible differences.
Having chosen the (…/installertype_FULL/…) offline variant , I can report that it now provides a package that WILL install on top of an earlier version (in my case 25.1) without having to uninstall the existing version. I couldn’t get that to work over the last 3-4 version update releases. I say “thank you” for that since it gives me confidence that the package is valid if I save it to backup storage in case I need to go back to it.
I updated Free to 25.2.9898a (build 25.2.9898.915) today.
On Restart “Windows Security” was complaining by tray shield icon highlighted yellow.
Had to do 2nd Restart before “Windows Security” shield icon changed to green.
Note, same thing happened to me last time I updated (to 25.1) and needed 2nd Restart to correct “Windows Security” shield icon to go green.
DoNotDisturb Mode is enabled for Windows ARM devices - the team hardly worked to get the feature enabled on ARM chipset
Say good bye to the Avast Passwords within the AV user interface. We have disabled the functionality as the legacy extension was completely disabled. There is a new browser extension that doesn’t need the AV to be installed. If you were using the old functionality there is migration wizard.
other fixes to increase product stability and product performance
Free: https://bits.avcdn.net/insttype_FREE
Premium Security: https://bits.avcdn.net/insttype_APR
