![]() ![]() If Avast does odd, undocumented low-level stuff….sure, you could call that poor practices, but software development has always done that, and its only Microsoft’s moving the goal posts all the time just lately…that is exposing those particular weaknesses. It’s Windows, as far as I understand, that is principally responsible for these outcomes. “catastrophic problem caused by Avast Windupgrade” ? But those issues BSOD, etc….didn’t exist until 1803….so why do you start your sentence with the words: I don’t like the company, and gave up on them a couple of years ago. I wouldn’t be so quick to blame Avast either. Getting data out of might likely have concerns, or issues.īy imaging first, they would have helped to safeguard your position, and try a number of approaches, and ideally, they would have done all the work on a secondary cloned drive, leaving the main in tact, establishing what worked….and then applying it “for real”. Instead, they/he/she appear to have just re-installed Windows. Then, they should have followed those instructions to the letter. The ‘technician’ firstly, should have completely imaged your SSD or HDD before they did “anything”. Had a few false positives recently though. before doing the upgrade, but I havent had any issues with Avast blocking any of the version updates since that time ( Sept 2015). However, I would say the following….though clearly not helpful any longer…… When I first upgraded Win7 (installed in 2010) to Win10 I had to upgrade Avast (free version) from 32bit to the 64bit version. I too, am really sorry for what you have suffered.
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