No, I do not want Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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No, I do not want Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer.

No, I do not want Google Chrome, nor do I want Google Chrome to be my default browser.

No, I do not want to have to answer these questions, as well as declining to upgrade Avast!, every single time there’s a program update.

No, I do not want my “automatic update” to not happen until I answer these questions. That’s not “automatic”.

I have no objection to being asked any of these questions once. I do not want to repeat myself.

I do not want to have to call my elderly father and sister-in-law to walk them through each and every “automatic update”.

Thank you for your attention to this matter in future versions of Avast!. -JW

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After Avast has programme updated then just untick the boxes

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Once you install the update and reboot, you get the screen on reboot, this one is for the free version and I got it after updating from the UI.

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After a BSOD’s on doing boot scans, I did a clean install cleaning every file and entry out the registry out Alwill, Avast & Google. Chrome installed on me without ANY prompts.

I repeat-:

No prompts, No boxes - nothing, I’m sorry I can not be clearer! I still got BSOD on boot scans so I am now using NOD32 on a trial version. Minus BSOD’s

Avast, stop pushing Google sort your AV out and I’ll consider re-installing otherwise you’ve lost a customer in three months time.

What Avast is certainly giving no consideration to is folks on older operating systems or elderly machines.

Dave

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Easy enough, certainly, for me, but one of the reasons I installed Avast! on my relatives’ computers in the first place is that it would automatically update, in the background and automatically, without requiring hand-holding from me for every single update. That, sadly, is no longer the case; if that’s the way Avast! is going to be from now on, I’ll be looking for something else to install on those machines. -JW

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The program updates have never been in the background and automatic (default setting is Ask and required a reboot after the update/install), certainly not in the nine years I have been using it.

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“Ask” is indeed the default, but selecting “Automatic update” for both “ENGINE” and “PROGRAM”, and deselecting “Ask for reboot” and “Show notification box after automatic update” would indeed download and install updates automatically and silently, with the install being completed after the next reboot.

Since all my semi-computer-literate relatives only turn their computers on when they want to do something, and turn them off almost immediately thereafter, this worked great for keeping their AV protection up to speed without them even noticing. Or bothering me.

…that is, until they had to start declining to buy a different version of Avast! before every download, and start declining the installation of an additional browser and/or toolbar after the next reboot.

I find it hilarious that the Avast! installer would add a toolbar that the Avast! “Browser Cleanup” utility would then offer to disable as “annoying”. -JW