I left it stuck there for 20 minutes. It did not complete.
I suspect - though haven't confirmed - that Avast may have made itself dependent on some web site other than Avast.com, in which case those sites may be blocked by our Internet setup. Not long ago I noticed that the site (CNET was it?) Avast points to from their installer page required access to some very questionable adware sites before even allowing the download. That's just wrong.
But this does beg some questions:- WHY does a product like this have an installer whose success is based on an online connection, but which has no self-timeout? The Internet has been around long enough that people know there can be failures.
- WHY has the quality of this product suffered so much in recent history, and does that degradation also affect its efficacy as a security product? It used to truly be "set it and forget it". I've used it since 2005.
Solid advice to search manually. I have been in RegEdit doing this, actually, since the install failed.
I *may* give it one more try today, but really, what a waste of time this is / has been. I could have had a couple of new software features coded today. The folks complaining that Avast! needs to do a better job before release aren't wrong!
-Noel