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No Chrome magically found itsway on to their machines. LisaJS, I’m sorry but what that image above clearly SHOWS is the opt out check box and people have stated they unchecked it and on they went with the Avast installation. This had nothing to do with not paying attention for users who did not get the screen (though that may be the case for some users who did get the screen). This makes me think that Avast rushed in a quick fix.
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I did a clean install of Chrome and when I did a later clean install of Avast it recognized that Chrome was already installed and did not offer to install it again. I had to uninstall both Chrome (had already lost all my settings, extensions etc.) and Avast to get my laptop working properly again. I contacted Avast and received a response from the Quality Control Manager that it was a bug in that iteration that caused the problem.
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Who gave Avast the right to do a system-wide third-party software install as an Administrator of my system without my permission? It also advised me after the fact that Chrome had been installed by an Administrator. I am meticulous about doing custom installs and unchecking options for unwanted software, so I resent the implication that all users were asleep at the switch.Īnother issue was that Avast did a system-wide install of Chrome rather than the user install I had in place. After the reboot that screen with the checked Chrome options never appeared and we instead received a message that Avast was installing. Prior to the reboot Avast downloaded and then a message appeared that it needed to reboot to complete the install. For early installers that screen with the Chrome options was supposed to appear after the reboot. Like other upgraders I did not see the screen shown above on 2/24/12.
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There was a time where I might have been “offended” that a company was trying to bundle extra software, but in this day and age, if you’re giving your software away for free, you gotta make a dollar to pay your programmers, and if that means Avast puts an option for Chrome to be installed so they can make an extra buck by spreading Google’s browser to the masses, I don’t fault them for that because at the end of the day Avast is one of the superior anti-virus/malware programs on the free and pay markets. Avasts Firewall alone dwarf’s anything Microsoft has ever put out. For those of you who don’t believe in paying for anti-virus software, I can relate to an extent, but I have gone to the filthiest corners of the internet with my main machine running Avast Internet Security and while it had every alarm screaming at me as I was under siege every type of malware known to man and machine-kind, I knew I was safe, I wouldn’t trust MSE to defend me with the same precision and zealotry that Avast does. I upgraded through the program itself and it didn’t ask me about Chrome, nor did it install Chrome on my computer. If you did accidentally install it, go uninstall it through Programs and Features in Control Panel. I looked at the above screenshot and see NOTHING deceptive about it. It has become second nature to many of us to intentionally do a “Custom Installation” just to ensure we don’t have 26 “toolbars” on our internet browser. I’ve never had any trouble with Avast – that is to say, never had an infection the bring my system to it’s knees nor did Avast itself bring the system to it’s knees w/ a huge resource footprint or the like.įor years and years reputable software companies have bundled other software (whether it’s Chrome browser or some toolbar), in with their free installations. These boxes are checked by default, so that Avast 7 will install Google Chrome on the system and make it the default browser on the system. The lower quarter of the screen advertises Google Chrome, and displays two selection boxes. The very same page lists another program that will be installed if Avast users do not pay attention to the menu. Express basically installs the antivirus software with the default settings, compatible installs it as a second line of defense in addition to other security software running on the system, while custom install offers the means to select the program modules that you want to install. When you run the Avast 7 installer, you are greeted with a start screen where you can select the express, compatible or custom install options. The software did install the Google Chrome browser on their system, and made it the default system browser. Two Ghacks readers have mentioned another issue after upgrading to Avast 7. The only fix is to uninstall Avast or MSE).
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Users have been complaining about a variety of things, including slow system starts on Windows 7 among other things (Caused by the installation of Microsoft Security Essentials on the machine.
Avast 7 has been released a few days ago and it has not only received praises but also criticism by part of the security software's user base.
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