Avast updating program without permission.

[bingvarstand]

Hello, I am an avast free user.

Just now Avast updated itself to the latest program version despite beeing set to manual update and I had to reboot. This have never happened before.

What just happened?

[essexboy]

Hi guys,

The older builds of Avast 2014 are not supported anymore as the new VPS requires the latest versions (R3 or R4 builds) which means that any attempt to update the virus definitions from those old builds will automatically force update of the program as well.

Sorry if this is disappointing but we really can't support the myriad of historical builds.
If you have any issues with the latest build, let's focus on fixing those.

Thanks
Vlk

[bingvarstand]

Hi guys,

The older builds of Avast 2014 are not supported anymore as the new VPS requires the latest versions (R3 or R4 builds) which means that any attempt to update the virus definitions from those old builds will automatically force update of the program as well.

Sorry if this is disappointing but we really can't support the myriad of historical builds.
If you have any issues with the latest build, let's focus on fixing those.

Thanks
Vlk

Thank you, then it is nothing wrong on my end.

[essexboy]

Nope it was in effect an administrative update