So are you suggesting that I am?
Yeah, the "If it looks like a rat and smells like one, fill in the blank" policy doesn't taste as good when it is directed back at you, does it?
I'm saying if you want to accuse someone of something like marketing deliberately fudging a website to pad paid versions (that is what the veiled "quarrantine the marketing from programmers" reference was for, was it not?), you should have more facts than "It doesn't work right for me", because your system is no more the center of the universe than mine is.
Sorry, are you now calling me a "rat" in addition to calling me a liar? That's a pretty insulting analysis. So it merits a response. Perhaps you should refraining from helping if you are just going to insult those whose analysis you disagree with.
Let's start from the assumption that Avast customers aren't stupid, rather than from your assumption that they are.
Your "center of the universe" logic is rather flawed. Rather, like any detective, you look at clues. I have no issue with downloading from any other website. Haven't for over 14 years. (I worked for one of the first ISPs, as well as being a consultant to many web companies.) I also have no issue with any other link on any other Avast page. But I do have an issue clicking on a free link that leads me to a "Wait. Are you sure you don't want the paid Avast version" popup that then prevents the free link from continuing.
Those are all facts. Just as were the images showing the issues with IE displaying the precise page error.
On the other hand, your "it works here, so it must work" analysis is pretty weak. You test webpages with various browsers, various resolutions, and you fix "bugs" rather than discount them.
Note, that I didn't tell you that it doesn't work for you. It did tell you that it didn't work for me. I did tell you all the steps that I took to resolve it. And I did tell you what I discovered.