Avast 5 RELEASED

Any way to reset the entered Free version license? In 4.8 you can enter a new license whenever. vlk? TIA.

 

Yeah even I agree nice combination of orange and black color

actually they have actually changed their main color like the yellow for norton and green for kaspersky.............

 

Weird, I just noticed that Firefox keeps spiking to 100% CPU every 10 or so seconds. Turned out it was the Behavior Shield causing the spike, no more spike after disabling it. Anybody else see this?

 

That seems to be the first 'action' of the behaviour shield world-wide

 

Does the Behaviour Block for the 64 bit version work? or are they still working on it?

 

Hi,
I have downloaded Avast 5, i have logged on to the system in USer option with administrator access, still i m getting an error as shown..How can I solve this
06.02.2010 22:42:05 general: Started: 06.02.2010, 22:42:05
06.02.2010 22:42:05 general: Running setup_ais-18c (396)
06.02.2010 22:42:05 system: Operating system: WindowsXP ver 5.1, build 2600, sp 2.0 [Service Pack 2]
06.02.2010 22:42:05 system: Memory: 55% load. Phys:86868/196080K free, Page:699916/871492K free, Virt:2069004/2097024K free
06.02.2010 22:42:05 system: Computer WinName: INTEL
06.02.2010 22:42:05 system: Windows Net User: INTEL\USER
06.02.2010 22:42:05 general: Cmdline: /sfx /sfxstorage "C:\DOCUME~1\USER\LOCALS~1\Temp\_av_sfx.tm~a02632" /srcpath "C:\DOCUME~1\USER\Desktop" /sfxname "setup_av_free"
06.02.2010 22:42:05 general: DldSrc set to sfx
06.02.2010 22:42:05 general: Old version: ffffffff (-1)
06.02.2010 22:42:05 registry: Deleted registry: Software\Alwil Software\Avast\5.0\UpdateReady
06.02.2010 22:42:05 general: Install check: SetupVersion does NOT exist
06.02.2010 22:42:05 general: SGW32AIS::CheckIfInstalled set m_bAlreadyInstalled to 0
06.02.2010 22:42:05 registry: ERROR!:Cannot access registry HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\avastTestService, error code: 0x000003FB
06.02.2010 22:42:05 general: Err:Not enough user rights to continue.

 

You might want o head over the Avast forums and post that problem:

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2.0

 

Pre-release build of Avast! 5.0.415 is available

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=55365.0

Greetz, Red.

 

- an attempt to solve the compatibility issue with MBAM Pro


YES!!

 

Out of all the antivirus company's I think Avast! is the fastest at releasing new builds that fix bugs.

 

Attempt?

 

Thanks, Rednose! It's almost time for me to migrate from v4.8. I tend towards the overly cautious, I suppose. I think I'll install over top, like you did, Red. Did you also go from 4.8 to 5.0 over top, or just from one new 5.0 build to another?

I'm pretty excited about the way avast! handles their business with releases and bug repairs. Once I see it is running smoothly, I think it will be time for me to become a paying customer.

 

I'd say he is acknowledging that this repair may not be the one that fixes it completely for everyone.
Sounds like a realist to me.

 

To be honnest this is the first time I tried to install over the top. Personaly I would do an install from scratch when upgrading from 4.8

Greetz, Red.

 

installed this and now it says my lic key is invalid for this version?? i have a legit paid key. is this due to it being a pre release??

 

there attention to detail & the customer made me a believer...

 

I cleaned out my brothers machine with an Avast 5 boot time scan today. Full scans with AVG 9, MBAM, and A-Squared free all missed it, all 3 scans actually came up 100% clean. I thought I'd set up with the new Avast 5 because I prefer Avast and MSE for free AV programs. Decided to run a boot time scan with Avast for the heck of it and surprisingly it found a trojan dropper the others had missed, it was called Win32:VB-OKI. I'm a big believer in the boot time scan feature.

 

New version, 5.0.418 released. Just got it via auto-update.

 

How heavy is it on resources?

Slow down your PC a lot?

I click to download the free ENGLISH version, and it says:

We're sorry, but the page you requested could not be found.

 

I have been trialing it the last few days and find it very light. Almost as light as Avira and with a very nice GUI...

 

Hi guys

Avast! 5.0.418 has been released :

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=55484.0

Greetz, Red.

 

Ok, your commments are enough. Installing now

 

does the pro version offer significantly better protection? its mostly getting viruses through web browsing that im worried about.

 

Running the latest free avast. Looks good, and yeah, seems light.

But what is avast's detection rate like, and how does it compare with the leading AV's suck as Kaspersky, Norton etc which have a very high detection rate?

 

The Pro version of Avast! adds a script blocker, as in the version 4 upgrade, but the major new feature is a virtualization capability (sandbox) available from the context menu or by selection in advance.