I was uncomfortable about 25.2 from the discussions about Software Updater sort of doing updates unexpectedly. Since enough time has passed that 25.3 is out, I decided to go ahead with installing 25.2 with the offline installer. The “Customize installation” screen didn’t show up. Did Avast remove it or did I do something to supress. Here’s my screen from my 25.1 install:
To my horror, the result was as if the items I didn’t check off were included. I did my best to disable the stuff I didn’t want and I think was mostly successful, but I much rather not install things I have no use for: that’s safer. With the Software Updater, it’s there, but I’ve turned off Automatic Updates. I have other ways I check for updates and find Avast trying to babysit me basically useless and an unnecessary waste of resources.