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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: TheSharku on January 04, 2019, 09:24:38 PM

Title: What is this?
Post by: TheSharku on January 04, 2019, 09:24:38 PM

When I tried to install Avast Free from it's website today, for a clean install, this happened. Didn't happen when I tried installing Internet Security.

Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: FrFc1908 on January 04, 2019, 09:36:40 PM

I had this happening earlier today , with avast secure browser and it's adblocking ( based on ubo ) enabled , tried to download the official AVG installers for the free version and avg browser....

Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: TheSharku on January 04, 2019, 09:47:46 PM

As far as i know, free versions are downloaded from Cnet and premiums directly from Avast, might be problem of Cnet. But everything I just said might also be wrong

Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: kwfoster on January 04, 2019, 09:56:35 PM

I was able to download it when i did a direct search on CNET, the link from Avast gives me a 404 error. 

Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: mchain on January 05, 2019, 07:26:32 AM

@ TheSharku
Are you running uBlock Origin?

Are you using these two links for Avast Free?
http://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avast_free_antivirus_setup.exe (http://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avast_free_antivirus_setup.exe)
http://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avast_free_antivirus_setup_offline.exe (http://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avast_free_antivirus_setup_offline.exe)
Please note both domains are files.avast.com, and nothing about cnet.com is in the url.
No issues downloading from here.

Title: Re: What is this?
Post by: TheSharku on January 05, 2019, 01:51:18 PM

Yes i run uBlock Origin. The link I used is the one on Avast's site's front page.