Thread: Avast! Free Antivirus

Good update. Many Avast users were leaving because of issues with system restore...

Originally Posted by sujay

Good update. Many Avast users were leaving because of issues with system restore...

Yes many security softwares corrupt have issues with system restore.
Glad to see Avast fixed their issue

Avast! Free Antivirus 5.0.656 Beta:

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Most notable improvements include:
· solved a problem that could lead to disappearing of the avast service
· Behavior Shield: solved a minor stability issue (aswSP.sys)
· performance and stability improvements in the avast! sandbox
· changes in the engine allowing us to generically detect/block some new types of exploits
· speed improvements in the updater
· IS: fixed a vulnerability in aswFw.sys (Secunia Advisory SA40868)
· IS: upgraded to the new version of antispam engine
· minor changes and fixes in the GUI
· fixes in the screen reader support
· added Danish and Hebrew language packs

avast! 5.0.677 Final


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Changelog:

solved a problem that could lead to disappearing of the avast service
Behavior Shield: solved a minor stability issue (aswSP.sys) + solved a Win7 issue
performance and stability improvements in the avast! sandbox
changes in the engine allowing us to generically detect/block some new types of exploits
speed improvements in the updater
IS: fixed a vulnerability in aswFw.sys (Secunia Advisory SA40868)
solved a vulnerability related to license files (Secunia Advisory SA41109)
solved a problem with scanning of files with very long path names
fixed the updater in East-Asian versions of avast running with Windows set to a different locale
IS: improvements in the Outlook antispam plugin
IS firewall: improvement in the path name matching
IS: upgraded to the new version of antispam engine
minor changes and fixes in the GUI
fixes in the screen reader support
fixed a bug where the File System Shield was scanning some files even after being disabled
added trimming of setup.log
added Danish, Hebrew and Urdu language packs

avast! 5.1.677 Final

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Change log will be updated here
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BETA VERSION OF AVAST 5.1 [NOW 5.1.798]

https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=67141.0


How to install it
Just run the setup executable. You can either install it from scratch, or on top of an existing avast installation (installing over both 5.0.xxx or 4.8.yyy should be fine). A reboot will be required to complete the installation


What's new
Most notable improvements include:
- Boot-time scanner for 64-bit OSes (finally!)
- Behavior Shield improvements - now with more sensors and able to detect exact offenders*
- Improved cleaning of infected computers
- Improved anti-rootkit engine - now capable of dealing with the latest TDL variants, for example
- Web Shield improvements (both stability and performance related)
- Mail and Web Shields not hosted in separate NT services anymore, resulting in much faster starts
- IS: new version of antispam engine
- Sound packs (more info coming later)

Avast! Antivirus 5.1.807 Beta

Things that should be fixed (compared to the last beta):
- 3rd party apps crashing on startup (e.g. OA, ATI Catalyst etc)
- broken sandbox
- other Behavior Shield related issues
- broken Firewall Ask dialog
- messed up screen-saver settings
- high CPU usage of AvastSvc.exe during download of large EXE files
- report file of the Behavior Shield
- slow start of the avast service on _most_ computers
- Network Shield sometimes not starting (and staying with Protection Status: Unknown)
- Network Lock UI problem

Still not fixed:

- Repair command (in Add/Remove Programs)
- still known compatiblity problems with a few apps
- the Secunia Psi thing discussed here (not really our fault)
- some performance related things

Details Here

Download

Code:

http://files.avast.com/files/beta/5.1.807/setup_av_free.exe

I wont be installing the beta version. Read that its a bit buggy