Well I survived that and there seems more options to choose from. On the top right 'settings' tab then 'community' in the opened page, are you happy to send info under the 'Participate in the Avast! community'?

Privacy policy,

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Annoyed a bit as I must have missed that Chrome would also be installed. Already had it installed, though, while trying out Spybot's beta. Seems Avast! (FORMERLY ALWIL) is in cahoots with GODoogle? I'll be keeping an eye on this. Might even consider going back to AVG (shivvvver).

I unticked the boxes for Chrome and Participation, but one thing that was installed regardless which I didn't have before was Avast WebRep in both IE & Chrome. I don't really need it as I have alternatives already in each of Chrome & IE, plus WebRep doesn't seem to have info. built up yet on anywhere as many sites as the others I use (McAfee Site Advisor and WOT).

Other than that it seems pretty much same as before.

Thanks for this thread, I got the notification of update but decided to wait for comments on it before taking the plunge. Glad I did, I'll wait a few days and do update when I've got my wits about me :D