Avast! 5 beta 1

Discussion in 'other anti-virus software' started by Az7, Aug 18, 2009.

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  1. progress

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    I remember this post - but the FP has been corrected ...
     
  2. xandros

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    avast pro V 5 will be more light than avast pro V 4.8 o_O

    When will coming avast pro V 5 final ?

    thank you
     
  3. Fajo

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    Once they feel all the major bugs have been worked out ?
     
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  5. Fuzzydice45

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    The Web Shield is working again after installing the latest version :D
     
  6. Kees1958

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    On version 5.0.239 no sign of life for the behavioral shield on Vistax64

    Others on x64?
     
  7. Habakuck

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    No, they said that they did not work on it. So status quo.
     
  8. Kees1958

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    THX

    Kees
     
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    Another good review from Neil. Since this is a positive review of a free product (in other words it's not Norton) perhaps the "usual suspects" will not go on the warpath against pcmag.com :D
     
  11. rolarocka

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    Imo too much importance on removal in that review. I dont care about removal. I play back a clean Image in a few minutes. I never need to go through hours of scanning to remove anything. At the end of removal can you be sure your system is 100% clean? No.
     
  12. progress

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    There's room for improvement :doubt:
     
  13. dw426

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    As there is with Panda, Norton, Avira, and so on :) Too much judging is done over "sample tests". The guy at PCMag does not have anywhere NEAR the amount of samples to play with that the virus labs have. 78% of 20 samples is pretty darn good imho. 78% of half a million, not as good, but certainly not terrible. Think of what you're dealing with before judging, let's say, oh 500,000 samples in the wild. Not even during your full life time will they ALL come at you or anyone else. The majority of people get infected with a handful of the most popular malware/viruses, which could be 100 out of 500,000.

    With those numbers, 78% doesn't look that poor to me. Besides, what isn't detected now WILL be detected soon enough, always is. Those that get infected didn't follow safe computing or did something stupid. 100% detection rates are never going to be able to help that situation. Just my opinion.
     
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    Agreed. Majority, being the keyword, won't come in contact with the 499,900 of virus tested.
     
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    How many rootkit samples are actually in circulation?
     
  16. Rain_Train

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    I don't mean to sound impatient, but does anyone know what the latest news is on a stable release? And yes, I do know Alwil's policy: it will be released when it's ready! I'm just looking for a rough estimate, as I believe the original projected date was by November's end, which is almost near :doubt: . Two of my licenses for other products are nearing expiration, so any news – even a glimmer – would be appreciated.
     
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    sorry but ther really is no date, but seeing the Internet Security Beta released is a good sign that the free version might be soon :doubt:
     
  18. Brocke

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    there has been a new beta refresh 5.0.252
    http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=51330.0
     
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    now it seem like people are having security center/action center issues along with missing system tray icons

    also this new beta refresh asks for registration now.
     
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    It's beta3 now. I guess we can assume there will be at least one RC version if not more before Final release.
     
  23. icr

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    Yeah its beta 3 release.
    Will avast launch final version of IS same time as that of free version?
     
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    Thats a good sign. Probably means that the free version should be coming out soon. They've been working on the free version for a while.
     
  25. Fajo

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    Well means they released the AIS beta yesterday, I'm guessing they think the av is about ready. Otherwise it would be stupid to put a buggy engine out in the AIS beta.
     
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