The guide is titled 'How to Install Avast as a Lightweight Antivirus'.įinally it's incredibly easy to confuse Avast with AVG, Avira, Av-a-banana etc. This speeds up working out the somewhat-confusing options you're being offered by this installer. If you need to get further back in time, there is a 2019 version at uploaded as 'avast_internet_security_setup_offline'.Īlso, take a look at the Major Geeks install guide, online elsewhere. This version seems to cure the earlier 'UI failed to load' bug which affected thousands of users. It will still continue to work, so far as I can see.

To install an extension, simply click on the Install button. Here, you can browse and install extensions from the Avast Extension Gallery. Next, click on the Extensions option in the menu. If you do let it go online briefly it will get the latest definitions, but will also try its best to up-sell you with scary warnings. First, open the Avast Browser and click on the menu icon in the top-right corner. That is why this file will be so useful to some. Which can be a pain if your old offline asteroid-tracking servers etc needs this vital software to be re-installed, and yet the original installer file is nowhere to be found. Yet Avast appear to offer no old versions. If this icon is not being shown (in Windows 7) click on the show hidden icons, then customize, and set the Avast iconright to Show icon and notifications. The system icon is the one that spins and changes colour when something is being scanned, and when right clicked on, shows a an Avast menu as per the attached screen shot. After version 21.x Avast's later installers refuse to install on some older Windows 7 PCs. Yes, but there is the icon that is placed in the taskbar as a system icon, and the icon that is placed in the task bar as a short cut.

I can vouch that it installs nicely on an old Windows 7 offline server. This is the full + offline installer version (August 2020).

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