My uninstall tip was only meant for micsi who wanted to install the beta version but couldn't ... because the beta version (if uninstalling the normal version is done properly) solves the "ask" problem.
I've also reduced the quote (at noon) to make it clear what my board was directed to...
Hi all!
I just upgraded to Avast Premium, and faced the same issue. What I saw was, that with Avast installed, some programs lost connection to the internet. When I opened the application settings for the firewall, I tried to set the access policy to all connections for this app, but it was "automagically" reset it to internet out level. Other than that, the whole application rule page seemed to constantly refresh itself, rewriting the values to the initial for every application. For applications with no predefined rule, I tried to set the value to "ask", then it started asking me again and again, whether to allow this application internet connection, even though this definitely had a rule listed. I tried to reset the previous value to allow and to auto-decide, the pop up window kept appearing, even after I shut the firewall off. Restarting the machine, and reinstalling avast didn't help. I also installed the Beta version, that supposedly fixes this issue, but it still persists.
Hope it gets fixed soon, I have to uninstall avast until then.
I uninstalled the software, restarted the PC, and installed the beta version using that link. The only thing that changed is, that it said my device is not configured correctly, when scanning the Wifi connection. But it didn't give me any detail on that, and would not solve it by itself. I've got noe reponse when clicking on a device shown in the network by avast. I also tried restarting again, no luck.
At no time my advice was to solve the bug (known as you say) by re-installing the release version.
If I don't have other things to do in my life(although at the moment that's partly true
)., I advise you to start learning to read what I say and who I say it to.
The forum that is not just for you will be better off.
You could have read, too:
While the beta has worked well for this particular bug ("ask" mode), avast should not spend too much time on further testing with the beta.
I remind you that it's already been 15 days since customers (who pay for a product that should have already been tested upstream with a beta version, and not the opposite) have been encountering this annoying problem for their security (the workaround in "auto decision" mode is not necessarily secure and that's not what we ask a firewall to do).
I'm already hearing the responses telling us to go to beta, but customers shouldn't have to do beta testing, otherwise there's no point in paying.
and in conclusion
The only proposed solution, to disable ask and accept everything is pretty much the same as turn off the firewall so not advised.
"auto decision" is not "allowed" (all)
Avast still has a little idea of what's right or wrong in the tons of returns to set the "auto decision" parameter (in addition, there's the "detail" popup that shows you the "auto decision" taken to keep an eye on it)... even if I repeat, this is not what the experienced user expects from a firewall and as I said before, 2 weeks seems like a long time to solve such a problem.
and after that, you dare to say that I only give negative opinions when it's pretty all the same as you think.