4.0 beta release date?

Webroot says "Jump" , Joe asks "How high?"

NHF Joe

 

Although my words might seem negative, that is not my intention here.
I fully agree that the appearance of Webroot could be a very positive thing for Prevx, especially if they're allowed to continue development of their individual product.
The changes to Prevx 4's makeup in e.g. BrightCloud involvement, and the cloud expansion etc have brought about the delay...which will, I agree, in the
final analysis make what was to be an excellent product, into one which could be a total stunner in the security software market.
In short...I know it will be worth waiting for.

 

Do you work? So you must jump if your Boss tells you to! Do you have anything productive to say about Prevx 4 beta?

TH

 

No, I'm still going to school

You don't need to be offensive , someone said earlier that Webroot is the cause of the delay and if the release is up to Joe, v4 would already been released.
I just made a funny (IMO) remark.

Productive?
I can't say anything until I see the product
Productive or not.
All I know is that this topic started 6 months ago and I can't remember seeing anything productive in it.
Must wonder what's the purpose of this topic.

Do you have anything productive to say about Prevx 4 beta?

 

Well when you get a job at some point you will have to jump when the Boss says so! Did Joe start this thread or did someone just do it for speculation of Prevx 4? Again I have to Quote Joe as to why it's taking so long! Read the part in Bold!

TH

 

@pabrate....in all honesty, what you said was very flippant, not funny, and very disrespectful to a very talented, hard-working developer. I think you need
to think things through in future.

 

I guess you're right.
But I didn't mean to disrespect Joe , I'm sure Joe knows that , in case I did .... I'm sorry Joe !

Anyway, I'll not "bother" Prevx "brotherhood" anymore , I'm scared of that deputy sheriff anyways and I feel like I'm in Soviet gulag here

 

I just want you to be nice to Joe as he deserves our full support as he is the Team Leader of the Developing team of Prevx 4! And it will be out as soon as it can!

Regards,

TH

 

Anybody asked lately when v.4 is out ?

If i was Joe i would have closed this thread ages ago He's got more patience than i have, or should that be patents Well soon maybe

 

No need to close this thread as he does give us info from time to time!

TH

 

I've been very tempted to start a poll here on "the most boring and pointless thread on Wilders". I really can't begin to understand why there's such an urge to get hold of an unreleased software programme and play with it. Surely people have got better things to do with their lives?

 

are we there yet? are we there yet? are we there yet?

 

offtopic ON
Its a known syndrome for wilders users, latest version disease, re-shuffle their security profile every week or days, looking for the invulnerable setup at 0 CPU/RAM, panicking for unusual I/O.

You cannot understand it if you are not in it
offtopic OFF

 

Indeed he does

By the way, any news on v.4 yet

 

yeah, it will be out in 10 seconds.

Come on folks, here are my predictions. Prevx out before July 4th and rightfully so. Eset out late September and Geswall in time for Christmas.

 

I hope you mean final versions around these months, and not BETA releases

 

I'm eagerly awaiting Prevx 4.0 and GeSWall 3.0, and a new major version of Avira and AVG for this year.

It's pretty sad that I'm eager and anxious for a security product to be released, shows how much of a life I have lol, of course I'm waiting for Battlefield 3, Elder Scrolls V, Portal 2, Diablo 3 too.

Also, is Prevx 4.0's beta out yet? lol.

 

Prior to installing Firefox 4, the release of Prevx 4 was a curious interest - now v3 isn`t actually working fully, that`s turned into more of a concern now.

Just wondering how long I`ll be paying for a non functional SOL...weeks, or maybe months ?

That was a rhetorical question

 

Excuse me for not being so excited. Not being compatible with a browser like Firefox 4 just sucks and is sign of problems of some sort. And no fax that has nothing to do with the usual whining on Wilders, where waiting beyond humanly understandable limits can be fun!, but is sign of common consumer intelligence. My take on this is that PrevX don't have much of a name to protect or take care of now they are bought. "Joe" is like not PrevX or Webroot. Will keep the door open for a positive surprise but most info in this thread is mainly BS, marketing BS even. Stating the obvious but on a product forum it need to be spelled out apparently.

Let us hope it does not come to that but even on Wilders time will come where only a few will continue to keep a natural understanding for "development" and what that means to amount of info that can be delivered to the paying public. Bordering on being unprofessional very quickly. Takeovers are soooo cool....

 

Hi Bambo

Do not really understand where you are coming from as Joe has been as transparent as he can in terms of where we are re. the release of a beta, and the fact that the alpha stage is being pushed heavily (unlike many other providers who in my opinion just pay lip service to the term alpha and release the alpha as a beta...with all the, what should be unnecessary, follow up issuing reporting that it generates, etc.).

Prevx betas are generally first class and I believe that this one will be as well. We just need to allow Joe & the team to do their job and then we reap the benefits...an appp we can start using almost from the word go.

Just my thoughts.

Balders

 

I know that this has already been said before, but I need to say what my opinion is on this topic.

-1st. I'm a paying customer who renewed just after Webroot bought Prevx. People were saying that we shouldn't worry about anything as the developing team was working as always on the product. So I decided to give it a go.
-2nd. How's the seriousness of a security company telling its customers to use a (nearly) discontinued web browser? Yes, I'm talking about Firefox which is used by a large amount of people. No one should tell me to use another browser I dislike or an outdated version which is IMO stupid coming from a company that sells a protection product.
-3rd. FF4 must have been one of the longest betas in the last years. How is it that Prevx hasn't released even a beta that works with it? I'm not a programmer but I doubt that the FF4 code has been fully rewritten from beta 1 to RTW version. I know, some like Symantec still aren't compatible but you usually don't talk about others' uselessness when trying to publicize your product. It's about seriousness, again.
-4th. That leads me to proceed to uninstall Prevx on my 4 machines. Having enjoyed a lightweight and reliable protection for some months now I'm at the point of having to install a security suite like in my old days.
-5th. I'm amazed at the patience of some people here. I'm not trying to be harsh to Prevx developers nor I'm going to say ugly words. But come on you guys this is getting already annoying. What's the point of paying a yearly license of a program that becomes useless for your needs for a large period of time? I'm not asking for a refund but of course I should get one if I did.

My conclusion is that Prevx has failed its customers (the ones using FF4). When everybody was expecting a letdown because of the Webroot purchase, Prevx failed unexpectedly for other obvious reasons. Whatever the reason is, I already feel disenchanted as Prevx has always been an amazing product IMO.

Please don't take my words wrong. I'm trying just to express my opinion and not trying to attack anybody. Just thought I needed to write it down to feel a bit more relaxed.

Thanks for the good (old) times Prevx!

 

Prevx 4 is compatible with Firefox 4, Prevx 3 was never updated to be compatible with Firefox 4 because it was unneeded. I also believe the protection of SOL (in Firefox 4) it self is intact its just glitch with the Toolbar on top not showing up (Tho I could be wrong).

Also most products don't support Beta products (Firefox 4) and it means it was just released it may take a while to have a update this is the same with 90% of software out there. Most company's don't update there software to be compatible with Beta software because the nature of beta's.

Prevx in its current alpha state will be more stable then Firefox was in it's RC state. I don't expect the beta of Prevx 4 to last more then a few weeks at most.

As for my view (and please don't think im knocking yours) Prevx is doing fine. They have delt with alot of changes of the past months and are getting ready to go into a beta phase with a total rewrite product that offers more features and better protection with less overhead then its predecessor.

I think people need to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. A total change to the way Prevx works Server side and Client side is no small task and frankly they are ahead of the timetable that it would take most company's to do this.

Anyways just my 2cents.

 

how on earth can you say this and expect people to be ok about it? so are you actually saying that its our fault for using firefox 4? and lastly, why are you citing an UNRELEASED (EVEN IN BETA PHASE) remedy for a current problem

 

Today new release: "Mozilla has set an aggressive schedule for the next version of Firefox, slating the release of Firefox 5 for June 21."

I feel bad for the PREV 4.0 development team for not getting PREV 4.0 out now and will be getting even further behind if it does not come out soon. Also we don't know the whole story behind it for there are some things out of their control and I am sure that they are waiting on management approval or that they had delay management approval to work on the project. I know - for I use to work in high tech industry and it was nuts. It was like 10 to 20 percents time waster by management plus the infighting among the departments. It was amazing that anything got done.

 

I'm sorry if its answered before..

What is the targeted month for Prevx 4 Beta. I know that they are making some changes at the server end to handle high amount bandwidth coming during beta phase. But, it would be good to know atleast expected month or quarter as Eset is doing. So, that people will have an idea when it will come.

b/W Firefox 5 if released at their scheduled time. I just wish a good luck for PrevX.
Again awaiting for prevX 4. Lets see what it brings to table