This thread started as a mix of rant and bug reporting. Yes, both useless because the issues are/were so obvious.
The only answer that would have made sense and that would have ended the thread as well should have been:
"Yes there are some serious issues in the newly released v.7. They are working on it, meaniwhile you are advised to not update from v. 6 either to update to v.7 by manually uninstalling v.6 and performing a clean install of v.7."
Instead they were:
"Did you uninstall v6 with the tool before upgrading to v7? That is a recommended way to upgrade instead of an in place upgrade."
(Nonsense #1 - I have written above I have installed v.7, it failed and I have removed it in Safe Mode. Like MANY other people.).
"I am not sure why people are so quick to give up, when most the time it is user error"
(Nonsense #2 - most of the time it is user error? Involuntary self-irony. )
"I think Avast does a marvelous job of testing!"
(Nonsense #3 - Yeah right)
And this goes on forever, here is another example:
"I have experienced none of the other issues being reported by people"
(Nonsense #n - Like it matters if 70% or 80% or 90% people don't get any problem or haven't seen it yet when there are still 30% or 20% or 10% with a crippled PC)
I have said above the reason why I find this unacceptable. The magnitude of the issues met this time clearly show that the testing was inadequate. We aren't speaking of a bug like the "Script Shield" that is not working with Firefox like on v.6, here Avast failed to install and failed to uninstall, requiring the Safe Mode removal (plus all the other issues I am not mentioning). And when it comes to tools like Avast there is a point where you become not trustworthy any more. Once v.7 fails that bad, I am not going to install it again until it gets fixed. If ever.
Avast is not a toy for me and I am not involved with its development. I don't find any rewarding in working around issues or in following the progression as new features mature, bug are squashed, Avast becomes stable. It is just a tool that must do its job and stay out of my way. Which BTW leads to the said trend of adding questionable or useless features. If you ask me, I would trade all the "advanced - new features" and even a lower detection rate for a software that just works.