Downloaded without any hitches whatsoever, but then I am not surprised as I have never at any time had a problem upgrading Avast, unlike some other AV software.
Also the program itself is working normally, so I would like to thank ALL involved in their time and effort putting all of this together.
I installed it on My Vista Business machine and it blue screened on boot. I had to remove it completely. Tried to installed it 3 more times all with the same result. I now am running Windows Live Onecare for now. On my Xp home machine it blues screened on restart and the second restart went OK. I am not even going to upgrade my other Vista Ultimate machine. There is definitely some type of problem with this release.
Everything is working just fine here also on my computers (XP SP3, Vista Home Premium), both Pro and Home version of avast!
Sorry to hear that you have problems. If you got some minidump files (Windows\Minidump) after the BSOD, send them to vlk (at) avast.com and link to this thread.
On my Vista Business machine it could be due to the fact that I am running Vista SP2. I am getting a new machine in, tomorrow with Vista Ultimate. I plan on installing Avast on it then. I will get back and report how it goes. This machine is getting trashed anyway so it is no big deal. Windows Live OneCare is kind of _____! I have been an Avast user for years and this was the first problem I ever had with it.
I’m afraid I spoke too soon. I saved updating my main computer (XP Home) for last and Windows can’t get past the wallpaper. No wave file, no taskbar- nothing but wallpaper.
I have been in the process of rebooting with no success.
Updated to latest free version 4.8.1282 via internal updater on XP-Pro SP3. Everything went seamlessly. My congrats and thanks for all the hard work entailed.
Avast Home 4.8.1282 is working fine on two XP Home SP3 computers.
A few casual observations:
ashWebSv.exe appears to use significantly less memory
when I open Thunderbird and check my email, the mail scanner icon disappears after all of the emails are downloaded. When I check newsgroups (specifically grc.com) using Thunderbird, the mail scanner icon appears and will not go away even after I have left the newsgroups and moved back to my Inbox. I’m not sure if this occurred in previous versions and/or it’s working as designed.
my upload/outbound speed appears to be noticeably faster using Avast versus a well-known and respected competitor (both using default settings) known for being light on resources. I used http://ndt.itcc.unc.edu:7123/ and http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/ to test on the same machine: Avast - 2.0 Mbps Competitor - 1.5 Mbps. Download speeds are the same.
Just downloaded 4.8.1282 (check my sig for computer config). All is well so far. Thorough virus check of system went smoothly. I guess this is the last update until the new version?
This only show how useless is the taskmanager for judging the actual memory usage of a process. (assuming your numbers are from the TaskManager)
2) when I open Thunderbird and check my email, the mail scanner icon disappears after all of the emails are downloaded. When I check newsgroups (specifically grc.com) using Thunderbird, the mail scanner icon appears and will not go away even after I have left the newsgroups and moved back to my Inbox. I'm not sure if this occurred in previous versions and/or it's working as designed.
The icon is there all the time the connection is established. How long this would be depends solely on your mail client and AFAIK it is very long. I don’t think this is new.
3) my upload/outbound speed appears to be noticeably faster using Avast versus a well-known and respected competitor (both using default settings) known for being light on resources. I used http://ndt.itcc.unc.edu:7123/ and http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/ to test on the same machine: Avast - 2.0 Mbps Competitor - 1.5 Mbps. Download speeds are the same.