Online installer fails to download

Unfortunately, this was earlier today on a client’s laptop and I can’t remember the exact message. When you download Avast! these days it only downloads an installer, which then proceeds to download the whole thing. I wanted to install Avast! on the client’s laptop but the installer said it was unable to download the main program. I rebooted and tried again and it still failed. I ended up installing Microsoft Security Essentials instead.

So I’ve been looking for a full Avast! offline installer, but they don’t seem to provide that any more. You probably don’t care but you just lost another customer for your free product, guys. I can’t see me recommending Avast! to friends and colleagues if the installer chokes on the main download.

Download avast! Free Antivirus: http://files.avast.com/iavs5x/avast_free_antivirus_setup.exe

That was quick!! THANKS!! :smiley:

You’re welcome.

When I went to http://www.avast.com/index and clicked on the free version just now, I was served the full 112 MB installer file.

Im having the same problem >< everytime in try 5o download the setup.exe it shows that it failed to download.

http://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avast_free_antivirus_setup.exe