Avast Free 23.5 creates new registry keys for safeprice plugin. - SOLVED/FIXED

[Dinobot2]

Right, but that comes after the update itself. I just don't know what "different update channel" means, which is why I asked about that specifically.

[bob3160]

Right, but that comes after the update itself. I just don't know what "different update channel" means, which is why I asked about that specifically.

No, a restart forces that update if it's available.

[Ron1958]

Hello, fix of the issue with the repeated SafePrice plugin offer was just released. Once you have version 23.5.8195.786 the issue should be gone. PC restart is needed. We apologize for the inconvenience caused by this bug.

Jan

When I right click on the Avast icon it tells me this is what I am running 23.5.6066 (build 23.5.8195.786) - still everytime I open chrome browser or firefox browser (both using chrome search engine as default) the Avast Safeprice tab opens along with my other start up tabs

[Nunzio77]

Hello, fix of the issue with the repeated SafePrice plugin offer was just released. Once you have version 23.5.8195.786 the issue should be gone. PC restart is needed. We apologize for the inconvenience caused by this bug.

Jan

When I right click on the Avast icon it tells me this is what I am running 23.5.6066 (build 23.5.8195.786) - still everytime I open chrome browser or firefox browser (both using chrome search engine as default) the Avast Safeprice tab opens along with my other start up tabs

Try clearing your browser's cache, deleting temporary files, cookies, etc... Then restart your PC.  It doesn't bother me anymore.

[bob3160]

Hello, fix of the issue with the repeated SafePrice plugin offer was just released. Once you have version 23.5.8195.786 the issue should be gone. PC restart is needed. We apologize for the inconvenience caused by this bug.

Jan

When I right click on the Avast icon it tells me this is what I am running 23.5.6066 (build 23.5.8195.786) - still everytime I open chrome browser or firefox browser (both using chrome search engine as default) the Avast Safeprice tab opens along with my other start up tabs

Do you have SafePrice installed? Check your extensions. If you don't want it, remove the extension.

[Dinobot2]

Right, but that comes after the update itself. I just don't know what "different update channel" means, which is why I asked about that specifically.

No, a restart forces that update if it's available.

Ok I'm probably just misunderstanding you, so are you saying that the restart forces the update to simply be available? Meaning, if I click "check for updates" before I restart, nothing will happen, and I need to restart simply to get access to the update?

[DavidR]

Right, but that comes after the update itself. I just don't know what "different update channel" means, which is why I asked about that specifically.

No, a restart forces that update if it's available.

Ok I'm probably just misunderstanding you, so are you saying that the restart forces the update to simply be available? Meaning, if I click "check for updates" before I restart, nothing will happen, and I need to restart simply to get access to the update?

As previously mentioned the fix to this problem is delivered after a uupdate check (not the regular program update function), this is done on a 4 hourly basis, by restarting the system it effectively initiates this check and starting/resetting the clock/delay again.

[Dinobot2]

Ok I don't quite know what uupdate is (I thought that was a typo at first), so if that could be explained a bit more that'd be great.

Regardless, I'm still on Avast 23.4 because I didn't update to 23.5 because of this issue. So if I want to get to the 23.5 version that fixed that issue (the build that ends in .786), what's the course of action I need to take? Should I just restart my computer, then do a manual update and that'll get me the version I want? Do I need to manually update, restart, then manually update again? Should I simply wait another few weeks for 23.6, (as you told me before that i'll get the latest version automatically if I do that, regardless of the previous version I had)?

[Alice7]

Restarting the computer doesn't force update checks for me, all it does/did was making the browser opens up the plugin page for Avast addon again. I've tried for several days, including turning my computer on/off manually or use the restart function so I can confirm this.

Reinstalling the program using the installer works though so anyone still encountering this problem. Redownload the installer from Avast website and install it again (your account won't be logged out and such, you just need to restart the computer).

[Dinobot2]

Ok, so it looks like I was successful! I was on 23.4 still, and I restarted my computer last night, then this morning I updated through the UI, now when it was done updating I noticed the new version was ending in .783 and I was like "uh oh. Let's hope the post-update restart fixed that", and so I restarted and now I have version/build 23.5.8195.786. I open up Chrome and no annoying extensions or pop-ups.

Now, just to make sure there was no funny business with the registry, where do I go to make sure that was the case? I have zero experience with anything registry related.

[bob3160]

Ok, so it looks like I was successful! I was on 23.4 still, and I restarted my computer last night, then this morning I updated through the UI, now when it was done updating I noticed the new version was ending in .783 and I was like "uh oh. Let's hope the post-update restart fixed that", and so I restarted and now I have version/build 23.5.8195.786. I open up Chrome and no annoying extensions or pop-ups.

Now, just to make sure there was no funny business with the registry, where do I go to make sure that was the case? I have zero experience with anything registry related.

If you know nothing about the registry, the safest thing to do is to leave it alone.
One wrong move in the registry and your system may not boot. Your computer, your choice.

[Dinobot2]

I wouldn't go in there without specific instructions from someone who is more of an expert.