Yes I can recall the Restore Point action by Avast, for me a redundant option when I do regular weekly full hard disk backup images.
I never felt System Restore was a truly restore everything at the time so I didn’t use it. This however isn’t the case with win10s system image and creation of a recovery disk.
If people have a robust backup and recovery strategy then a rollback for avast (or any other program) wouldn’t be necessary. I have used my backup images on my XP system many, many times over the years and not one was Avast related. Unfortunately most people don’t have a backup and recovery strategy until something serious happens.
It really is time to learn as Avast isn’t the only reason to backup your system. As I said I have been doing this for many years, it has saved my ass (and a lot of time and grief) many times and not once was my recovery due to Avast.
… until this person learns by the hard way.
I backup my system and my data regulary and do not expect that a program with another purpose would do that for me.
I don’t believe the OP is suggesting that Avast do data backups or system rollback, just that Avast itself should have a rollback function.
Even then, I don’t believe it should, rolling back your Antivirus in isolation could have implications, given that AVs are deeply embedded into the OS. For instance compatibility or rather incompatibility with the OS and what about files in the virus chest, etc.
A long time ago backing up was much more difficult than it is now, there are many backup programs around, some are even free. Not to mention, Windows 10 has made it much easier to do a system backup, if you want to rollback, this is a much better way as it isn’t rolling back one program in isolation, but everything. However, you have to being regular backups (at least weekly) or you could have a lot of programs that require update.
Until a user loses all of their music, image, emails, data files do they have the lightbulb moment, what if they were backed up.
Very clever - my running system is a bunch of very important files; without it I have no files at all
What abaout wasting time if your computer crashes?
I can understand your desire for avast to have a rollback feature, but avast’s mission is to protect a system from malware infections, and it is not it’s mission to repair damage from undetected malware it may miss. I think that is what you are getting at here.
If avast blocks a malware from ever getting in, then it has fulfilled it’s mission.
The only true rollback feature that would always work is a full disk image. Myriad reasons to restore a known good image other than an active infection, as DavidR has pointed out above.
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Until a user loses all of their music, image, emails, data files do they have the lightbulb moment, what if they were backed up.
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How would I loose emails and how should I back-up emails???
If you use a mail client then it has a setting that say something like > leave mail on server
If you select this then you can access your mail account from webmail and find your mail(s) if deleted from your client
If you only use webmail and not a mailclient then it is not a problem
Email clients are generally open and that means your inbox folder/file is open if a system has a crash (for whatever reason), open files are in danger of corruption.
Not to mention, depending on your avast settings, if you do an on-demand scan avast could be scanning your email, if avast can’t extract the infected email then you could be at risk of the whole file being removed. I have seen this recently in the forums and a rollback won’t do a thing about that unless it was a full system rollback.
Whatever it is (emails, images, music, etc.), if you don’t want to lose it, back it up.