Hello. I'd like to update the Avast engine on my wife's machine which is currently running v4.8.1201 while the current version is 4.8.1335 (Ok, so she missed a few updates, but as all has been well, I hadn't bothered.) Before doing so, a few brief questions:
(1) When I downloaded the 4.8.1335 engine package a few weeks ago that version had a size of 35,272,712. Today's download indicates 36,182,432. Since these are the same versions, what changed?
(2) Is it advisable to update from within the program or has that often/sometimes caused problems? Is it preferable to do a complete uninstall, remove additional remnants, and then do a clean install, as per previous posts on this:
0. DISABLE SELF-PROTECT MODULE (my addition)
1.Uninstall avast from Control Panel first.
2. Boot.
3. Download the latest version of Avast Uninstall and use it for complete uninstallation.
(Boot into Safe Mode, execute the uninstall utility, remove Avast)
4. Boot.
5. Install again the latest avast! version.
6. Boot.
If the current version that is running has no issues and the internal update function is reliable, that sounds easier (and a removal/clean install could be done next if the auto-update doesn't go as planned). But if there are some known potential issues with auto-update, I'd just as soon move right to a clean install.
(3) If a clean installed is preferred, is there a way to keep the configuration settings? (assuming that those from 4.8.1201 would apply to the current version, 4.8.1335.
Thanks in advance for any advice/clarifications you can provide.
blue2