AVAST will have free virtualization in its new 6.0 antivirus

Yes, Avast already took the biggest part of the cake according to this
http://www.oesisok.com/news-resources/reports/q4-2010-antivirus-backup-client-and-windows-os-reports

 

I was referring to the beta.

 

Nice news, so avast will finally use in-the-cloud heuristics which was expected now avast FREE will be a rock solid freeware, waiting for the BETA to get started

 

Got it. That's cool. I look forward to trying it.

 

WOW, great news .Waiting for 6.0 beta

 

Well, this is not really "News"

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?PH...1ab1c19df8f75&topic=64382.msg546016#msg546016

Greetz, Red.

 

well, it is as far as official news.

PRAGUE, Czech Republic, January 24, 2011 – AVAST Software is including an array of new technologies in its soon-to-be released avast! 6.0, including virtualization technology for all of its free users.

 

Yes, for the "outside" world it is, and it is nice that you posted it. But we Avast! users never doubt Ondrej about what he posts on our forum

Greetz, Red.

 

This is hilarious.. when we have a software company that has been providing all this virtualizations and so many other features for people (free): get treated like garbage and on the other side some other company thats trying to provide some features for its free product getting so much appreciation.. This is amazing.. kudos to ya'll

 

Yeah, I would agree except, between your one side, alllllllllll the way to the other, goes a lot of history in the making. Some, that touches others more. So unless we want to rewrite history, this thread is about Avast my friend.

But it is a interesting thought.

 

not to mention diff implementations which have been mentioned (if the person is referring to the product that i imagine )

 

I am hoping Avasts version is more user friendly.

 

seems like it will be so far and im liking it from what ive heard.

 

Well in one product you depend on an heuristic engine and in the other you depend on a whitelist, we still have to see if the heuristics are well balanced, I hope so. The whitelist it's suppose to be safest but also you can get more popups, the heuristics... it's depend how good/bad they are.

How the sandbox works internally does not matter to the final user since both will isolate the executable, keeping the computer clean. Anyway the a! sandbox seems that will be more compatible than the other, but for me is not a very important feature although can help you to understand if the file is safe or not, but you can always upload it to virus total or any similar service, but I guess for less experienced users is a good thing.

 

What?
Since when Avast! Sandbox was like sanboxie, all the time that i've installed on my friends pc and tried it, it's pretty (pardon my words) CRAP compared to Sandboxie
I've never ever seen it work

 

i like the approach of giving the auto sandbox option only for programs which are deemed to be potentially suspicious than thinking unknown apps are bad by default, for sanity and usability reasons personally at least.

and also i like that its actual virtualization.

it functions like sandboxie is what they are saying (virtualization)

 

Awww, i really feel sorry for giving such a bad critique on my last post, i forgot Avast! Free didn't come with Sandbox on version 5, but reading all this Avast! Free with sandbox confused me a bit.
Really sorry *Kneels*

Well, maybe i'll have to try it again soon.
I've never used Avast! Sandbox

 

Well if you get problems with sanity with a couple of sandbox popups every week in an "active" pc (installing and unistalling new programs) you should really consider Avast sandbox when it will release. Health goes first

 

Such a feature implemented in avast! 6.0 Free may be known as 'auto-sandboxing' but unless I've misunderstood something, I doubt it will be as prominent as is the similar feature in CIS.

CIS 5 sandboxes or 'partially limits' everything it doesn't know.
avast! 6 will sandbox only things that it hasn't been able to determine are completely safe by other means, i.e. a small number of,
1/. safe but suspicious files that it currently blocks, and
2/. unsafe files that come in just below its suspicion threshold that it currently allows.

 

sounds about right.

 

Imagine if someone uses Avast (with sandbox) + Comodo (with sandbox) + Sandboxie....

I wonder if there's going to be much of a conflict

 

Yeah, maybe if you're expecting behavior like in Comodo, which is not the case with avast!.
Have you used avast! Sandbox in avast! 6.0 ? No because it's not out. Do you even know how it works? Judging on your comment you don't have a clue. So don't spread nonsense if you don't know anything about how avast! Auto Sandbooxing will work. It will be far smarter than just plain relying on digital signatures like Comodo does...

 

I have used Avast 5 Free before and got excited w/ its new feature the Behavior Shield. But the only thing makes me decide to uninstall it is because sometimes its cpu time spikes up and my system freeze for several seconds.

Hope their new version w/ "more another added" feature runs flawlessly and could not cause something that makes pc users wonders if his/her blood pressure will go up or not.

 

Jejeje Did I say something about Avast? or how it works? where? what I said?
I just said that Avast probably will have less popups. What do you think I said?
Maybe I know how works better than you.

Sorry but Comodo does not realy only in digital signatures. You dont even know how it works

Yes smarter... but I would say less safe, the heuristics don't guarantee that all the malware will go to the sandbox, but I'm sure that avas't will make an excellent balance.

 

Comodo works only based on digital signatures (or whitelisting). CIMA gives you some idea what the file is but does not guarantees that it's clean. Plus its working the other way around like avast! 6 will...