Avast! 8 Beta?

RejZoR, doesntly that kind of sound like what was talked about with AE that Avira was creating. Hmmmm

Any way, Avast 8 is a mind-blower. Avast has reached deep and created a winner. While others sit on their laurels, Avast continues to demonstrate they have no intention of competing with malware, but actually on beating it.

 

Also note that avast! come in the File Reputation game 1 year ago ...
Norton since their 2010 edition I think, that's why they have a really good prevention of unknown threats with their "Norton Insight".

 

i agree this new avast is stellar. a bit lighter for me than last years and the detection is awesome. if this keeps up it will be my own go to for this year. i love my other 2 choices as well but this is performing just stellar. congrats avast ..... im right now about to extend my 12pc's which expire in 2016 for another 3 years

 

Not sure about v7 but v8 UI startup speed in incredible!

Also seems lighter than previous version.

 

going to install this evening - it gotta be great -it is beta now and already faster than v7, so after beta it will be even faster.

 

For me, it seems to use less ram, but I don't notice CPU time or disk i/o improvements.

 

I've got the newest Beta version..and now Windows Security Center doesn't see it, lol. I noticed that was mentioned somewhere on their forums so I'll have to go back and see how to remedy that. Also, it's wanting to install an ad blocker too? I can sort of see the software updater considering it's security, even though that's the poorest scan of software I've ever seen considering it only shows an extremely short list. But Avast seems to be heading in the "do it all" direction which I'm not a big fan of.

 

True Indian we missed something in "ThePCSecurity" it seems that a link is blocked by a MDE sign
Win32:MDE-B [Susp]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lLztvGBpgI
7:45.

 

Agreed.

On that note, PM me when you can. Thanks bro.

 

I had to uninstall it. Slows Windows 8 to a crawl. Its ok, it is beta and they will get it right.

 

Giving me some crashes and other issues on Win8 also.

 

More heuristics coming in:
Win32:FNFAV-L [Susp], Win32:FNFAV-M [Susp]

http://www.avast.com/virus-update-history

 

I am looking forward for the real world and heuristic testing...I am sure by that time rejzor avast evo-gen and MDE will be fully ready to grid malware samples totally as you said by friend

 

I had Windows 8 about a month and hated it. Went back to 7 and this new beta is lighter than the previous version when using 7... noticeably. Like it!

 

But Avast 7 is already super light! It can't get any lighter!

 

oh but it is....

 

Maybe it's a Windows 7 deal but it seems lighter...I have to keep rocks in my pants or I'll float away!

 

avast! 8 comes with another optimization where i only scans the copied file and not source and the copy when performing a copy operation. In theory this should make less overhead when for example copying images from a digital camera tot he computer or when copying stuff on the same computer.

 

How good and secure is the sandbox.Is there any tests for that.I tried Chrome to run sandboxed but Ccleaner finds history cookies etc after i empty it ,unlike Sandboxie

 

Thanks for the explanation

 

Where did you run CCleaner (inside or outside sandbox)? Also be aware that avast! Sandbox leaves certain stuff intentionally on a host system, see sandbox exclusions for more details.
Thats mostly harmless locations, but you can turn that off as well and make it 100% virtualized.

 

Does Avast! still use a proxy for traffic monitored by its shields?

 

I ran it outside the sandbox.I ran chrome inside and the only way of leaving no traces after emptying it is to, not have trusted downloads ticked.

 

The two most crucial bottlenecks in todays computing.

 

For me, Safezone launching speed seems faster as well. I've also reported 2 bugs that I encountered.