Thank you Avast for killing 4 hours of my time trying to figure out how to restore my google chrome profile and redownload all of my extensions/themes/apps.
Admittedly Avast ran really well for the 7 months I had it. And I really enjoyed hearing the “Avast Virus Database Has Been Updated” voice. But this was a huge inconvenience and it made me really paranoid. I could have lost a lot of crucial data.
I’m uninstalling because I can no longer trust Avast not to mess up things that are not even related to it.
If never faced such problem… And I have Google Chrome and avast! in several computers.
Maybe we need to troubleshoot a little more to take any conclusion. Like Bob, I don’t think avast! change anything on Chrome profile…
I also can sync Chrome addons in new computers linked to my account :
Just got hit with this (the install starting automatically before I had a chance to uncheck the box) when I rebooted today.
Seems like exactly the sort of problem that wouldn’t happen if Avast only defaulted to “opt in” instead of “opt out” on their checkboxes (something they should be doing anyway).
Many of us have already said that, opt-in should be the default as it avoids the problem of bug or omission by a user ending up with something that they didn’t want.
