Avast! 8 Beta?

I've seen the photos, it doesn't look remarkably different from 7. I'm totally opposed to this person leaking it, but I'll say some features look interesting.

 

It is a lot different though it's still driven with visually similar features (shields). Besides, why change something that works well. I wouldn't mind exactly the same interface as it was with v7, just with better protection. Eyecandy is nice but detection and protection is what's we're all after. Unfortunately not much is known apart from enhancements in Auto Sandbox and Behavior Shield. I'm still waiting for the answer on what kind of enhancements we're talking about... mostly because i have a very negative experience with both of them as i haven't ever seen any documented case of these features actually do anything. Well, there was one isolated case of Auto Sandbox detection but if that's it in 2 years of Auto Sandbox existance i find that rather useless then...
avast! team will of course disagree with me but i disagree with their disagree. At least until i can see clear results of opposite. Other vendors don't seem to have such problems with behavior analysis and you can quickly see them working in real world situations...

 

They really should just drop the behavior shield if they're not going to do anything with it. They can disagree all they want, but we're not the only two who can see that the thing just sits there on its laurels. I'm in the same boat with auto-sandbox. At best it's popped up twice, and I am hazy on that second time. They were system tools I believe, and I've downloaded that kind of stuff many, many more times without a peep from Avast.

 

Well, the trigger for AUto Sandbox works as expected. It will fire up on anything suspicious. The problem is, it never positively detects anything by itself. It analyze it and then gives no verdict what it was.

 

+1 the AutoSandboxing depending on FileRep works great but dynamic analysis no ...

 

So the UI still uses curved corners... what a pity, even Microsoft finally got back on the right path in 8.

Also RejZoR, can you tell us if they did get rid of registration in the free version? One can't imagine how many users are unable to figure out how to renew it once it expires.

 

Are betas available for full suite or just free version
Curious to see if Agnitum's technology has been implemented yet.

 

avast 7 gunna be windows 8 compatable soon?

 

It's already compatible but has some BSODs ...

 

Registration will be still there, they've just disabled it in this pre-beta. I've expressed the same concern about it (from my own experience) but they disagreed with me. Unfortunately due to this i'm forced to install competitors products that don't require any registration on systems where i can't keep an eye on them all the time.

Agnitum tech will be included in avast! 8. And it's not a direct port of Agnitum firewall, but they do use its engine. Probably for all traffic related operations (URL monitor, HTTP scanner, firewall) to provide better compatibility with Win8 which changed the networking stack and old drivers can't be used the same way as on Win7.

avast! 7 is already compatible with Windows 8, there are just isolated cases of BSOD's like with any other software. If they were easy to reproduce, they'd be fixed by now for sure. avast! team doesn't go easy on BSOD's, trust me.

 

Avast! Free Edition BETA 8.0.1475


Listed as available for download today (Sunday) @ Majorgeeks.

 

Exactly. I was already tired of cleaning malware infested PCs with severely outdated expired avast installations. I'm now putting on MSE. It's not as good as avast, but it's still way better than an outdated avast.

 

This issue has come up with other AV's, and really needs to be fixed.

Emsisoft actually expired on a few computers I work on, and never notified anyone, either me by email, or the use themselves. It just reverted to free mode, and cut itself off.

Webroot has a serious issue where it will simply 'disappear' from a system, and you can accidentally make it disappear if you log into the web-portal for it, and de-select an installed PC - from REMOTE. This is a poor feature that is a security risk. WSA disappeared on a few boxes I had it installed on.

I have resorted to putting PandaCloudFree on machines I cannot babysit, and it works. No registration, no worry it will disappear, and it is pretty darn effective. Try it, MSIE I won't touch due to atrocious detection ratings.

 

found a changelog on some russian forum today: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dvr19qepzqdz3ux/8.0.1475.pdf

there is a lot under the hood done!! not only ui

 

Who is this mysterious new poster with 1 post, providing internal Avast documents?

 

my name is tim, working in hamburg (DE), why you want to know?

found this on a russia site searchin for changelog. does anyone know if there will be 64bit versions?

 

I hope that the it serves better than the last version which was a disaster in terms of stability as far as many are concerned....

I really want it to stable enough, so that i can go back to one of the best free AV's that were there before v.7, which was a disaster as far as i am concerned...

 

The changelog looks interesting, perhaps Avast can take back it's spot as my recommended free AV

 

why does majorgeeks have the download and open to the public now when this is a "Closed" beta.

its ready for download at majorgeeks.

 

Because ppl are stupid mostly...

 

It's running great here on my test mule.

 

Here's a video of Avast Beta 8:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWHY6QnBpDA

 

It looks like they have really worked on Autosandboxing improvements ... They are definitely in the good way and nice interface
CIS 6 and avast! 8 both really well ..

 

Major does this alot why..they only know
here it is in all its glory
and remeber its BETA maybe ALPHA
hxtp://majorgeeks.com/Avast_Free_Edition_BETA_d6856.html

 

I saw the pics of the new GUI, i am a bit "meh", certainly better than AVG which is a depressing all black thing like it just returned from a funeral, i just hope the custom installation is still there so i can exclude from installation the various shields i don't want and the new crap like this "Software health", "Browser cleanup", Access anywhere", etc.

What's next? Susbstituting CCleaner? Maybe include secure eraser and recovery tool too?

I hope it runs light on CPU like v7.