Avast AV home edition

[Radimus]

I saw the links for the Avast Pro edition, any love for the Home edition... or perhaps an AutoIt script or something...

[stebro]

Hi Radimus,

If your happy to go the Autoit route here is a script, works OK with Avast Home Edition version 4.5.549

Cheers

SteBro

InstallAvast.au3

[Radimus]

I needed to modify a few lines, but it worked fine.

thanks

I did use Aut2Exe to exe the script... and I may wrap it in a rar self-extractor.. but that isn't really necessary

...
Run("setupeng.exe")

WinWait("avast! Antivirus Setup", "Welcome to the avast! Setup program")
Send("{Enter}")

WinWait("avast! Antivirus Setup", "avast! 4.5 Home/Professional Edition")
Send("{Enter}")

WinWait("avast! Antivirus Setup", "END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT")
...

[benners]

You could try downloading the pro trial version and make a silent installation (under file on the enhanced user interface), then, when the two files are created, in the admin.ini where it says Serial, put your home edition key

[njay]

I use the following to install the home edition

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\avast\setupeng /SILENT /SP- /NORESTART /LOADINF="%systemdrive%\install\Applications\Avast\Avast.inf"

Place the following in avast.inf

[Setup]
Lang=default
Dir=c:\Program Files\Antivirus
Group=Avast
NoIcons=0
Components=

[bucketbuster]

You could try downloading the pro trial version and make a silent installation (under file on the enhanced user interface), then, when the two files are created, in the admin.ini where it says Serial, put your home edition key

This method works fine.

Avast is installed with my favourite settings and also my Home Edition key.

Avast is also loaded at startup, BUT the systray icon isn't visible!

I only tested in VMWare, so maybe that is the problem.

Anyone knows how to get the avast systray icon back?

EDIT:

Never mind I looked into admin.ini and found this line:

ShowTrayIcon=1 which should be ShowTrayIcon=0 to make the icon visible.

EDIT2:

I don't know why or how, but now ShowTrayIcon=1 makes the icon visible