When is the next version of AVG 8.0 coming out?

[robinb9]

I am talking about the one that fixes the active x incompatibilities that show up on the "Warning tab"

Grisoft said it was going to be soon, but that was about a month ago.

Can someone from Grisoft tell us when it will be coming out via the updater?

thanks
robin

[iwod]

I would want to know too... hopefully some speed improvement as well

[vinzenz.ewido]

Hi,

well the first beta for that is scheduled for next week.

Regards,
Vinzenz

[robinb]

-{ Quote: "Hi,

well the first beta for that is scheduled for next week.

Regards,
Vinzenz" }-

please let me know if you want me to test it- i am also running xp sp3

and i have a test machine to do this

robin

[vinzenz.ewido]

Hi robinb,

the best would be to track the beta site of AVG, there you can subscribe for testing our beta products :)

http://www.grisoft.cz/ww.79461

Regards,
Vinzenz

[robinb9]

i am a member there and i see no software there yet

robin

[vinzenz.ewido]

yeah right, that's why I said it is best to track it :)
As I said the next beta is scheduled for next week. So at the moment there can't be anything. ;)

I am not sure if it was postponed already, but I was told about Tuesday. So have a look on Tuesday evening or Wednesday.

Regards,
Vinzenz

[robinb]

ok i will look next week for it
btw will it work with firefox 3? i am beta testing that one now

robin

[vinzenz.ewido]

Well afaik it should work then, but I am not positive.
I will have to ask my colleagues on Monday.

Regards,
Vinzenz

[robinb]

btw so you know the link scanner doesn't work in Firefox 3. When installing firefox 3.0 beta it disabled the avg Save Search because it said it is not compatible. Will this be fixed before Firefox 3.0 is final in June? on Grifsoft side?

robin

[Macstorm]

Hi Robinb, sorry for hijack this thread, i have a question about the current AVG 8: how many processes does it run? (standalone av, free or paid, if there's a difference in the number of procs.). Thank you.

[vinzenz.ewido]

@robinb

The Linkscanner was successfully tested in our internal build for Firefox 3 RC1

@Macstorm:

It depends on the installed features and what you're doing at the moment but in a peek (when running a scan, updating, and have the GUI opened on a 64 Bit machine with the System Tools active (which uses 2 Processes alone while viewing the component)) then you'll have about 10 Processes running.

But this is only in the paid version with all features installed.

[Tarkus]

-{ Quote: "the first beta for that is scheduled for next week" }-Greetings all,

Hi Vinzenz,

Can you share any information about estimated time from beta with ActiveX FPs fixes to the final release?

And another question, if I may, since Link Scanner was mentioned.
Was browsing slowdown issue(s) addressed in this beta?
Because all those web related new features were disabled here

Thank you in advance

[robinb9]

-{ Quote: "@robinb

The Linkscanner was successfully tested in our internal build for Firefox 3 RC1" }-

test the USA English Version- the newest one out because when i installed firefox beta it automatically disabled the AVG Scanner during install and if you go to addons you will see it says it is incompatible and is disabled. I did nothing- the program did it all by itself on install

I used the avg free 8.0 version for this which should not make a difference since they are basically the same except for a bunch of extras.

I got it here http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

and here is a picture of what is in firefox add ons

http://home.comcast.net/~robinb9/avgfirefox.jpg

robin

[Macstorm]

-{ Quote: "It depends on the installed features and what you're doing at the moment but in a peek (when running a scan, updating, and have the GUI opened on a 64 Bit machine with the System Tools active (which uses 2 Processes alone while viewing the component)) then you'll have about 10 Processes running.

But this is only in the paid version with all features installed." }-
Thank you Vinzenz :thumb:

[vinzenz.ewido]

-{ Quote: "Greetings all,

Hi Vinzenz,

Can you share any information about estimated time from beta with ActiveX FPs fixes to the final release?" }-

I am sorry but I am not quite sure what those ActiveX False Positives are related too. Is this related to the AV Scan?
Well I am not sure what component produces those false positives, but I need to say that I don't know about all the problems which occour with our products. Since the company is not that small like it was with ewido :-X

-{ Quote: "And another question, if I may, since Link Scanner was mentioned.
Was browsing slowdown issue(s) addressed in this beta?
Because all those web related new features were disabled here

Thank you in advance" }-
Yes those issue were adressed. The WebShield was heavily improved it's at least 10 times faster than before. And LinkScanner is under improvement all the time as well.

@robinb9:
As I said, we tested it with the internal build, not the one outside, so it might be a different result. I cannot go too deep into the details since I am neither in QA nor working on the component at the moment itself.

Best Regards,
Vinzenz

[robinb9]

-{ Quote: "@robinb9:
As I said, we tested it with the internal build, not the one outside, so it might be a different result. I cannot go too deep into the details since I am neither in QA nor working on the component at the moment itself.

Best Regards,
Vinzenz" }-

Vinzenz, then maybe you should pass my post to someone at Grisoft because firefox 3.0 is coming out in late May or early june and it would not be a good thing if Link Scanner doesn't work with it

robin

[vinzenz.ewido]

I think you didn't get it right. Our internal Linkscanner build was working with the Firefox 3 RC1 and of course we keep track of it. ;)

I was talking about your results which might be different from our results, because you don't have our internal builds. :)

BR
Vinzenz

[Tarkus]

-{ Quote: "I am sorry but I am not quite sure what those ActiveX False Positives are related too. Is this related to the AV Scan?
......................
Yes those issue were adressed. The WebShield was heavily improved it's at least 10 times faster than before. And LinkScanner is under improvement all the time as well.
" }-Hi Vinzenz,
Thanks for reply.
ActiveX Compatibility (immunization by SpywareBlaster/SpyBot S&D) FP's actually is a major issue. All are waiting for the fix.
That cause global rollback to v7.5. I did not but I am not using scan with V8 at all (just "happy" with Guard sitting there).
One of the threads is actually here. Posts 16 & 19 are the central point I think.
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?p=1231666
I asked because I was sure FPs will be addressed in stable but not in beta.

Web related improvements at the same time may stay in beta... because I disabled all those I am not using the said features... so I don't care ;D
But "10 times faster"!..:thumb: if you promise ;) I may check it out in a future final

Thanks again
Best wishes

[robinb]

-{ Quote: "I think you didn't get it right. Our internal Linkscanner build was working with the Firefox 3 RC1 and of course we keep track of it. ;)

I was talking about your results which might be different from our results, because you don't have our internal builds. :)

BR
Vinzenz" }-

my results come from downloading at firefox website- their latest rc1. and what is the difference between your internal builds and the one that is on their website now?

All i know is that i put it on 2 computers so far.
1 running free avg 8.0
1 running avg 8.0 pro
Different complete computers running xp home sp3 and xp pro sp3

In both cases link scanner was disabled in firefox 3.0
So I think you need to look into this a bit more and see why it is disabling the Save Search.

Again I will not sell AVG 8.0 (I am a reseller for AVG) until the active x compatibility issue is fixed and now this issue.

I cannot have customers calling me up that their system is not working properly because they deleted the items in the "warning" tab thinking they are trojans when they are not or going nuts thinking they have over 400 trojans which they really do not have, until this issue is fixed.

I have many customers who use firefox and will be downloading the 3.0 when it comes out and would like to know that link scanner is working for them on both ie and firefox.

How can i reassure them that AVG 8.0 is an excellent product if it has now 2 major faults?

Once you fix these problems then I will again sell your product.

robin

[vinzenz.ewido]

Hi Robin,

Ok I try it once more. The internal build of the linkscanner (Means AVG Internal not any what is out at the moment) was tested with Firefox 3 RC1 and it has been working with it. Means the compatibility will come with the SP1 release of AVG 8.

About the ActiveX issue, could you please provide some more information?
What issue is it? A detection of ActiveX objects as malware? Or what?

We're really in need of more input about that topic.

Regards,
Vinzenz

[Tarkus]

-{ Quote: "About the ActiveX issue, could you please provide some more information?
What issue is it? A detection of ActiveX objects as malware? Or what?
We're really in need of more input about that topic.
" }-Hi Vinzenz,
In my post above I put the link to the discussion in this forum but that issue is all over the whole huge spider's Net :)
Cheers

[vinzenz.ewido]

Ah now I see. Well "JardaN" who replied there is from our engine development team and he already answered the question. Thanks for this link Tarkus I wasn't aware that he was answering in this forum.

To quote him for all here:

-{ Quote: "We noticed the problem you described here and we are really sorry about the troubles we caused to all of you. This false detection is a legacy of the ewido engine, but it didn't appear in AVG 7.5 because of the bug in the ewido source code. We have just prepared the fix for this issue. The fix will be released in couple of days with the next public beta version of AVG8. Thank you for your help.
--
JardaN - AVG Technologies" }-

It means that this fix will be included in the AVG 8 SP1 beta which should be out there soon and the release for the SP1 of AVG 8 is scheduled for mid of June.

Regards,
Vinzenz

[robinb]

i went there today and there is still no beta. You said either tuesday or Wednesday. Today is Wednesday. Can you give me an idea when to go there?

robin

[vinzenz.ewido]

Well the internal schedule has been for the 20th but it seems like this has been post poned a week because of the internal testings.
I wasn't aware of this there was no internal notification of it.

I am sorry for it :(

Regards,
Vinzenz

[Firecat]

AVG SP1? Service packs, not point releases like 8.1, 8.2 etc.? Is there a new update model now? ???

[robinb]

-{ Quote: "Well the internal schedule has been for the 20th but it seems like this has been post poned a week because of the internal testings.
I wasn't aware of this there was no internal notification of it.

I am sorry for it :(

Regards,
Vinzenz" }-

that is ok, could you kindly post here when it is put there? this way I do not have to log in and check every day.

thanks
robin

[robinb]

-{ Quote: "AVG SP1? Service packs, not point releases like 8.1, 8.2 etc.? Is there a new update model now? ???" }-

I believe he means an updated version. They are only calling it a sp1.
Which when comes out of beta will go into the updater of the program.


robin

[lu_chin]

Is it possible to install only Linkscanner without other components?

[ren]

Good evening,
-{ Quote: "Is it possible to install only Linkscanner without other components?" }-
You can have it as a stand alone applicaton http://www.explabs.com/

[hbkh]

The SP1 beta has been released.

-{ Quote: "AVG 8.0 VERSION DESCRIPTION
===========================

Product: AVG Internet Security
Version: 8.0 (build 111) - SP1


FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS
====================

- Remake of internal communication to eliminate undesired program status appearance (hibernation, sleep mode, cold restart, ...).
- Display of the system tray icon representing running scan (that can be paused or stopped from the context menu).
- Added option to ignore the status of a component: the system tray icon then reports OK status even if a component is in error status.
- New tab added for the rootkit findings in the scan results overview.
- System restore point is created before launching a program update.
- Added new option verifying the ADMIN Server connection in the program's advanced settings.
- Improved EML file processing including scanning of user mailboxes.
- RAM requirements optimization.
- Improved statistics of detected objects in Email Scanner and resident Shield.
- New design of the system tray pop-up window, and more information provided.
- To eliminate AVG collisions with OS, only minimum drivers are installed in safe mode; then it is possible to launch on-demand scanning from the command line only, and a new GUI dialog has been added to ease the scan configuration.
- Added option of restoring a file from the Virus Vault to the original folder even if the folder has been removed.
- Added option of deleting the Resident Shield and Email Scanner history.
- Improved stability and design of GUI.
- Improved GUI accessibility (using keyboard).
- Fixed problem of GUI compatibility with some screereaders, e.g. JAWS." }-

[Firecat]

LinkScanner has been causing sporadic crashes in IE7 in Vista for me, I do not know if it is a known issue, but I hope it will be fixed with SP1...

[maddawgz]

the verdict?

[robinb]

-{ Quote: "The SP1 beta has been released." }-

is the active x compatibility fixed in this one?
I do not see it in the list
I will go to the beta website tomorrow and pick it up to test it.
No time today
robin

[iwod]

RAM requirements optimization

Nice.... Will test as soon as i am back home.

[robinb]

i am testing it now. For now i can tell you active x compatibility issue is fixed.
But the rest still needs some work.
I really cannot tell you too much because of the agreement with the beta program but at least in my experience this part is fixed.

robin

[maddawgz]

-{ Quote: "i am testing it now. For now i can tell you active x compatibility issue is fixed.
But the rest still needs some work.
I really cannot tell you too much because of the agreement with the beta program but at least in my experience this part is fixed.

robin" }-

im still on 7.5 seems faster, you think it's about the same yet?

[RejZoR]

Of course it's faster, its also not as thorough as v8...

[DougCuk]

Has the SP1 version reached final release yet?

A previous post listed the SP1 version as build 111 - how does this relate to the release version numbering.

The current release file is avg_free_stf_en_8_100a1315.exe
Is the 100a number significant or misleading?

[hbkh]

-{ Quote: "Has the SP1 version reached final release yet?

A previous post listed the SP1 version as build 111 - how does this relate to the release version numbering.

The current release file is avg_free_stf_en_8_100a1315.exe
Is the 100a number significant or misleading?" }-Neither... it is part of the definition naming scheme... ;)

[DougCuk]

I assume you mean that the 100a number is not related to the SP1 build number?

Stll not clear on my original question:
Has the SP1 build reached the current live release version yet?

[Firecat]

No, build 100 is not AVG 8 SP1. SP1 has not been released to the public yet. Commercial versions are still at AVG 8.0.93, for your information.

[lodore]

i will be testing it later,downloading atm.
how do i report fp's to grisoft?

the link scanner is much faster than before.
it works with firefox 3 RC2
the toolbar is unticked as default

[DougCuk]

Another week goes by and still no word on when the SP1 update will emerge from Beta.

An update from Vinzenz at AVG would be appreciated :thumb:

[robinb9]

beta testing is over june 16 so i would think sometime after that they will release the new version after that.
If you have the Pro version you will see it via your updater.
robin

[DougCuk]

Just in case anyone is still tracking this thread:
It appears the SP1 update has just reached the paid for AVG product and should filter through to the update servers and the free product very soon. Version number on the paid for product is Build 8_131a_xxxx

See this thread:
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=212672

-{ Quote: "
Originally Posted by RobinB
It is on their website now for those who want to buy the Pro and do not have it now.
It will come via your updater for the pro and free version in the next few days.
And also it fixes the active x compatibility issue with spyboy s&D and spywareblaster
robin
" }-