Avast 2015 Beta 2 (Build 2015.10.0.2200)

Why people always take several separate shields as something bad? They give you the most granular control over how antivirus behaves and people repeatedly "bitch" about it. If you don't care about awesome control, then you don't open them. But if you do and most people love avast! because of that, you have such fine control not even many paid versions offer that.

Sure, protection is how it is, but with things like Hardened Mode and Site Blocking you can further enforce security on home systems. Either by reinforcing the systems with Hardened Mode or blocking social networks or other risky websites or even block specific file extensions through it (like SCR, VBS within the URL's) etc. So while it doesn't give superior protection out of the box, you can make it that way with very little effort.

 

Yes, but by far and away the majority of people want to download and AV such as Avast and have it work "out of the box". They don't want to have to or they don't have the knowledge to alter settings, so you are saying they are getting a less than acceptable product.

 

How is being in the middle of charts "less than acceptable"? Last time i checked, calling something this way means it's somewhere at the very bottom of the detection scale. And while avast! isn't at the top, it isn't at the bottom either. I'd prefer it higher, yes, but where it is now isn't that bad either...

 

How close would it be to the top with Hardened mode enabled. I have it installed at the moment.

 

Hardened Mode set to aggressive should have 100% protection rate. Because it relies on whitelists and digital signatures entirely. However, it will also block everything that is not yet on the whitelist, usually very new programs, all beta versions, all modifications of known clean files etc. That's why this mode is brilliant for casual users who rarely install very new apps.

 

Great, how will it do against PUPs, will this help. I must say i like it myself and its been a long time since i tried Avast. Its the grandparents i am asking for. They click to download all old games they see and within no time their system is unusable because of pop ups, viruses and unwanted programmes. Will hardened mode help this type of threat.

 

I have the impression Avast is not able to evolve anymore.
It s crappier with any new version ,on the surface and on the inside.
It will have 100% detection rates when my grandma will have 17 again.

 

avast! 2015 gone gold (RTM)!

https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=157166.0

NEW (10.0.2205):
- we have already released new Avast 2015 RTM update. Both channels - beta/production are now equal and contain same binaries
- NG is now installed again o machines with lower CPU than 2ghz

 

v2015 final (build 10.0.2206) has just been released.
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=157520.0

 

ROFL!

 

Please see here. https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/avast-v2015-build-10-0-2206-released.369494/