As discussed before, when the new final production release is made available and it is installed then beta program participants are automatically restored to the normal avast update stream (ie removed from the beta program).
So all I would be required to do is click on program update then?
When the avast team decides to run a new beta program then we start all over again with this process.
So in simple terms the last 4 digits are refreshes, and the next beta program could indeed be called 4.9 as an example?
I am just really trying to fathom out what I need to do when there are updates, so I am happy about refreshes but still confused on what to do when there is a complete new program update like for instance a 4.9 update.
Because of the position I find myself with 98 S.E do I just wait till there is notification of a new program update then I click on program update within Avast, as I don't want to be running aswbeta exe files or anything like that, and obviously I cannot disable any self defence modules due to me having Windows 98 S.E
I have build 4.8.1185 at the moment, so it looks like I have a beta program would you say? so when this new release becomes available for download, what is the easiest method for me to update and upgrade?
If you are flagged as being in the beta program and you perform a program update then you will get the latest refresh of the beta program.
Would you say that I have the beta program then? as I have build 4.8.1185 and it let me perform a manual update with no problems from 1178 to 1185.
Not too sure what you meant when you said if you are flagged?