so tried myself to install ontop 1289 Avast! Free, results below
1.it offered to install Google Toolbar (ewww)
2.it reset Trial counter, now i needed to re-register Free within 30 days
3.it's update claims 1289 is newer than 1351
the below is result of EVERY settings being lost
4.it lost my settings which disabled Community and Social button
5.it lost my settings which enabled special scans visibility
6.it lost EVERY setting for scans and special scans
7.it lost all the exclusions and ignores in every shield etc.
8.it lost several other settings
9.it lost all manually defined settings from avast5.ini (aaargh)
all in all this failed to behave as update
acts like reinstall with complete settings reset
needed reconfigure every single setting
so based on this experience, please make sure
that the installer ALWAYS backup the previous configuration files!
or is it too much expect backup of half dozen .ini files?
definitely NOT GOOD, please FIX it as it's painful trying to figure out
what exclusion was lost, what setting was lost, what is not working anymore etc.
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feature wish related questions
any ETA on Opera support in Script shield?
any ETA on Opera support in Webrep?
any chance to add Script shield support for FoxIt ?