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[Vince53]

I wish I agreed with you, Jimbo, but MS wants to get rid of Windows Defender. Because it costs MS mney to provide online help, it is to their benefit to offer a free anti-virus program, automatically installed on Windows 8. But manufacturers are losing money from AV companies that paid them to put free trial versions of their programs on new computers.

For now, MS has officially announced that ALL computers loaded with Win 8 will have an AV program. Once that AV program is expired or turned off, Defender will automatically turn on. But I predict that Windows 9 will not operate unless an AV program is running, and MS will have abandoned Defender by then.

 

[Airbot]

June 18, 2012

Avast 7 Beta 7.0.1443 available.

This program update contains the following major features:
* Changes in the autosandbox module
* Improvements in Remote Assistance (support for UAC prompts etc)
* Improvements in SafeZone (protection against kernel-mode keyloggers; Updated SafeZone Browser; clipboard sharing, etc.)
* Outlook plugin redesign
* Opera support in WebRep
* SiteCorrect module for the detection of unwanted websites
* Windows 8 compatibility updates
* Emergency Updater

Fixed issues from previous beta:
* No sounds on Vista/W7
* All known BSOD
* Stability fixes on Win8

Known issues:
* Outlook plugin is sometime not running correctly when you have more than 1 active account
* Windows 8 compatibility still experimental
* No translations have been updated so far, so all new items are in English

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=99822.0

 

[Brink]

Thank you Aaron.

 

[Dave76]

Thanks Aaron.

 

[vrosa]

Thanks alot !

 

[Airbot]

Avast RC build 7.0.1447 available.

This program update contains the following major features:

* Changes in the autosandbox module
* Improvements in Remote Assistance (support for UAC prompts etc)
* Improvements in SafeZone (protection against kernel-mode keyloggers; Updated SafeZone Browser; clipboard sharing, etc.)
* Outlook plugin redesign
* Opera support in WebRep
* SiteCorrect module for the detection of unwanted websites
* Windows 8 compatibility updates
* Emergency Updater

Known issues:
* Outlook plugin has some limitations when working with IMAP protocol
* SNX limited on Windows 8
* Some missing translations, but major languages are translated

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=100153.0

 

[Brink]

Thank you Aaron.

 

[Airbot]

Avast Antivirus 7.0.1451 released.

This program update contains the following major features:

* Changes in the autosandbox module
* Improvements in Remote Assistance (support for UAC prompts etc)
* Improvements in SafeZone (protection against kernel-mode keyloggers; Updated SafeZone Browser; clipboard sharing, etc.)
* Outlook plugin redesign
* Opera support in WebRep
* SiteCorrect module for the detection of unwanted websites
* Windows 8 compatibility updates
* Emergency Updater

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=100247.0

 

[Brink]

Wow, another one so soon. Thank you Aaron.

 

[Dave76]

Thanks Aaron.

Anyone tried this (or earlier versions) on Win8 RP?
I'm going to give it a try.

 

[Brink]

New Avast 7.0.1456 WHQL version released. See first post for more details.

 

[Dave76]

Thanks Shawn.

 

[Airbot]

New beta available.

Beta Free/Pro/AIS 7.0.1461

 

[Brink]

New Avast 7.0.1464 BETA version released. See first post for more details.

 

[Brink]

New Avast 7.0.1466 Program Update version released. See first post for more details.

 

[alikhan]

Cool. Thanks !

http://files.avast.com/files/avast7beta/setup_av_free.exe

It installs Google Chrome by default without warning !!!

YEAH agreed ...... It happened with me too , when recently i installed Avast 7 , it installed google chrome without showing the option to check or uncheck it.

 

[Brink]

New Avast 7.0.1473 Program Update version released. See first post for more details.

 

[robinb9]

If you are going to do an upgrade from windows 7 to 8 and have Avast you might find that the network services in Avast stops working after the upgrade, like it happened to me. I did a repair in Programs and Features and it fixed the problem
robin

 

[Brink]

New Avast 7.0.1474 Program Update version released. See first post for more details, and use internal "Update Program" in Avast for new version.

 

[Brink]

New Avast BETA 8.0.1476 version released. See first post for more details.