Are there likely to be problems?
Yes.
Hello,
yesterday my Avast Free AV was updated to version 24.10.6133 build 24.10.9535.880. After the Avast update was done, I shut down the PC. After turning it on again today, and leaving it unattended for a little while, I suddenly noticed that ALL the programs, that Avast’s “Software Updater” had previously marked as “outdated”, had automatically been updated without asking and without my consent.
I’ve always had the “automatic updates” setting in Avast’s Software Updater turned off, even af…
i have avast for many years, and alloed it in my firewall to connect to internet to not have alerts every time it needs to connect.
BUT, since last week i have everyday alerts from my firewall to ask if i can allow icarus.exe (from avast), each time i allow but the alerts come back everyday
the problem is because the exe file is not located at the same directory, since it is launched in temp directory and within folder with a name with many numbers, so my antivirus considers that it is not the…
The update itself should be fine. I’ve updated much, much older versions to the then current release. However the current release has issues. The above topics are two major ones.