A question re Avast

[Albinoni]

Just out of curiousity, when Avast releases its newer version of AV software (when ever that is), would this mean their current 4.6 Pro version will go Free to replace their current Free 4.6 version ?

[FastGame]

Both Home and Pro are the same AV, Pro has more options as described Here (http://www.avast.com/eng/av4_version_comp.html)

When Pro updates a version Home goes with it.

[Albinoni]

BTW what are push updates ?

[FastGame]

{QUOTE-> A special feature of the Professional Edition is PUSH updates. It is a dramatic change in the philosophy of updates. Usually, every installed program checks occasionally for new version availability. PUSH updates, however, are initialized by our server; they result in your computer quickly responding and performing the necessary update. The system is based on the SMTP protocol (as used for e-mail messages). The update itself is controlled by the avast! resident e-mail providers (MS Outlook and Internet Mail).

The whole system if protected by asymmetric ciphers and is resistant to unauthorized misuse. <-QUOTE}

Have a nice day:)

[RejZoR]

{QUOTE-> Just out of curiousity, when Avast releases its newer version of AV software (when ever that is), would this mean their current 4.6 Pro version will go Free to replace their current Free 4.6 version ? <-QUOTE}

No, you're missing the philosophy of their developement.
Both products are based on exactly the same program. They even upgrade and improve them at the same time. When avast! 4.7 Professional (or 5.x) is released, so does Home Edition of the very same version.
There won't be any "better" avast! that would replace 4.6 Pro when it gets older. It's not like in lets say Agnitum's case where they offered Outpost 1.0 for free but Outpost 2.0 was payable.

[Thorny]

Hi Rajzor,
Just curious, can you tell me why do all of your postings have an edit by Happy Bytes, and what was removed?

Sorry if this has been asked before!

Cheers,

Thorny

[vlk]

http://malware-research.co.uk/Smileys/default/rofl6.gif

[Thorny]

Ah, I get it! :D

Thanks