See my post in this thread. http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=117411.msg909451#msg909451 I don’t have the reason why my different OS had different responses, but I did offer a speculation as to why. I just don’t know the reason. Do you?
I’ve no idea. Your speculation in your other thread seems as good a guess as any.
Maybe the Avast developers are the really unattentive ones and this slipped through due to insufficient testing.
In any event I won’t be updating my Avast while there is a risk of it happening again.
You could update by downloading the installer and do a custom overinstall. That should give you the option to choose (or not) any module also.
I agree with you, Gopher John.
Apart from a clean install (which I think it’s advisable for major releases, such in this case) downloading the installer and doing a custom over-install is the best way of upgrading, in my opinion.
I see my current registration expires in 58 days so I’ll probably wait and do a download and clean install then.
I hope Avast fixes the embedded update for Win7 users though, for the sake of other unsuspecting users.
By the way, don’t forget to do a “custom install” in any case.
That’s my default position 
I just made an account to add to this thread. Avast update installed Chrome on my machine without giving me an option as well. After clicking on the update button I was not presented with any other options and after rebooting to finish the installation I had Google Chrome installed and set as my default browser.
There was absolutely no option for whether to install Chrome or not for me. I’m not some computer illiterate who doesn’t know how to use the custom install options, I was not given an option at all.
In reply to schmidthouse, as far as it being a “small thing” to get bent out of shape over, I have installed this software on over 20 machines for people who don’t know how to use computers and now I will have to visit every one of them to uninstall Chrome when they call me asking why their browser doesn’t have their bookmarks or their normal homepage anymore.
Thanks a lot Avast! >:(
EDITED to seem less like an attack on schmidthouse, that was not my intention but it read that way initially.
@Grifter02
now I will have to visit every one of them to uninstall Chrome when they call me asking why their browser doesn’t have their bookmarks or their normal homepage anymore!
You could simply change the default browser setting back to the original default browser. Once done, things will be back to normal and,
If you want to still get rid of Chrome, so be it.
I don’t get the option to uncheck chrome because Chrome is installed on my system.
I did get the option when I installed avast! on a system that never had Chrome installed.
With some people, even something as simple as changing the default browser is a chore over the phone 
I don’t see how having had Chrome installed in the past, but not currently, gives Avast the right to re-install it on my machine without asking.
I can’t answer for avast. I don’t work for them. I’m only offering an explanation as to why it happens.
If the registry still indicates that Chrome is installed, then there isn’t really any need to ask about Chrome since it’s already being used.
That’s only my personal opinion.
Well, you don’t really have to go to that user, just use Remote Assistance and you can do that task remotely…
Thanks, but I wasn’t really here to get advice on how to fix people’s computers. I was just venting about the fact that it needs to be done at all, with a little hyperbole thrown in to make a point.
Fair enough. But I would hazzard a guess that most Avast users ‘don’t’ have 20 machines to deal with.
In any case as far as your situation is concerned I can understand the unfortunate hassle this could cause.
Possibly the ‘Remote Assistance’ suggested in previous post could be an alternate option to physically visiting each machine/person.
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Have used FREE Avast for about 10 years
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Know how to “custom install.”
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Neither of my boxes have ever had Chrome installed. Both are less than six months old.
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Updated when prompted by AVAST 7. Returned to find Chrome installed and default on both boxes.
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Have several relatives who have no computer skills that I installed AVAST on their boxes. I will have to go and UNINSTALL Chrome for them.
Yeah, thanks, AVAST! NOT!
Wow… Didn’t realize that Chrome (being the best and safest browser) was such so hard to uninstall. By “boxes” do you mean virtual boxes? Or are you referring to your pc tower as a box?
I might be missing something here. Chrome is extremely light, fast and very secure.
To me, so what if you have to spend 3-5 minutes uninstalling Chrome.
I do agree and have voiced my opinion that Chrome/Google Toolbar/Google Drive should be opt-in and not opt-out.
However the people who make those decisions are higher up the food chain than any of us here.
Takes a mere 3-5 seconds to uninstall Chrome. I already have Google Drive and I use it daily to sink files to my iPhone.
Google Chrome is very light,very fast and very secure turbo spyware.
There are many leftovers after uninstallation of Chrome and Google toolbar.
Main reason why I hate Chrome is lack of permanent bookmarks sidebar.
Browser without bookmarks sidebar is not browser at all in my opinion.
Google Toolbar is even worse spyware.
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Google Chrome is very light,very fast and very secure turbo spyware.
There are many leftovers after uninstallation of Chrome and Google toolbar.
Main reason why I hate Chrome is lack of permanent bookmarks sidebar.
Browser without bookmarks sidebar is not browser at all in my opinion.
Google Toolbar is even worse spyware.
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Lol. Google is spyware. And I’m the Pope. Chrome does have bookmarks on the side. They also have it as on option to show as a bar. There are also tons of add ons for bookmarks. I have my bar hidden. Open a new tab and presto. There’s all my bookmarks. It’s that easy. Clearly you never used Chrome.