Then find yourself another AV, but you won’t get help in defrauding avast when you could be using avast 4.8 free.
So you have a very strange way of showing loyalty to avast by ripping them off and that is my last word on it. You have been offered advice, take it or leave it but don’t expect help in getting an illegal copy of avast 4.8 pro to circumvent the nag screen. I’m only sorry it isn’t a notice of an illegal/pirated key which would prevent your getting VPS updates.
This topic will now be reported to the moderators to be closed and or your forum membership banned as this is the official avast! support forum and that doesn’t include illegal copies of avast.
To the OP, you have your answer. You could still use the free version of Avast 4.8 with database updates. If you are going to use an illegal one, then it doesn’t matter if you use the free version in a commercial environment. If it is not a commercial internment, then better yet.
If you don’t want to customize, then don’t. Use it “as-is”. If you are an advanced user, then you could indeed customize it (if you were not so lazy). If you don’t care about new features nor new malware, then maybe you shouldn’t use an AV at all.
So, stop being a troll and use whatever you want, or nothing at all. We don’t care. In any case, you got the best answer you will get here, and it is clear already that your not so welcome to keep asking.
Couldn’t agree more with it. The new versions are idiotproof heavily cutting the configuration options, but I’m not an idiot and I know what I’m doing. I’m a legal, registered user of the free Home version and this nagging screen totally pisses me off. Deleting the “asw6noti.exe” module and clearing the registry isn’t helping at all - it all comes back with another definition update. I think it’s my choice which version I want to use, so there should be an option to turn the update screen off. So is there any possibility to get rid of it once and for all?
prilodri, I’m going to tell you this as simply as I possibly can.
As much as you’d love for any avast! version to be automatically configured to your specific desires without some customisation, life just isn’t like that. To expect avast! to automatically cater to your desired settings is quite frankly a ridiculous and boxed minded expectation.
Anyway…
In the avast! Pro Antivirus 6.0 Setup, all you have to do is simply tick the “Custom installation” box at the start of the setup process to allow a custom installation.
After that, proceed to the Configuration screen, and see the image attached below to get avast! Pro Antivirus 6.0 set up with avast! 4.8 Professional Edition settings.
The only insanity is from the people not upgrading the the 6 versions, i find the new versions run lighter than any of the old versions and if you find that isnt so then you need to look at what other software you have running that maybe causing the slow downs.
It is strange how you can call avast bloatware as they dont put any of the rubbish into there program that alot of other companys will, everything that is in the program is neccesary for the right reasons and if there are some processes you dont wish to have they can simply not be installed via a custom install or uninstalled at a later date via remove programs.
Also to come here to the avast forums and state that your using cracked keys and then you want help on an old version of avast when there is a superiour new product in every aspect for free really makes me wonder how some people even remember to breathe.
If you are not willing to pay for it, then use free version. It provides the same level of protection as payable one. It just has less features and extras that might enhance protection but are generally not needed by everyone.
Since you’re using WinXP (as i can see from the windows on those pictures), why are you sticking to an outdated version that is slower and has a worse protection than avast! 6 ? I’d understand if you were still on Win9x where avast! 6 doesn’t work anymore, but insisiting on avast! 4.8 on WInXP just doens’t make any sense at all. The whole point of ANY antivirus or security program is to be as up to date as possible. Only this way you can always be ready against latest malware. Which you just can’t be with avast! 4.8 anymore.
avast! 4.8 is using an outdated engine, its emulator is much more basic, it doesn’t have proper heuristics, doesn’t provide Script Shield, it doesn’t have Behavior Shield, it doesn’t have AutoSandbox and also scanned files are not cached which significantly increases performance.
You get all this in avast! 6. For free!
I’s like having a choice of a free Ferrari 458 Italia and a free Zastava Yugo. And you’d pick Yugo and insist on it to the death. WHY!? Take the Ferrari, take the avast! 6…
Yeah, sure. But I won’t get for free all the expanded options present in 4.8, for example the possibility to make my own list of file extensions which should be scanned when started/written on HDD. It’s getting more and more simple with every new release. I know people are generally stupid and needs to be protected from themselves, but why more experienced users must also suffer from this?
And screw this Sandbox, it gets on my nerves like hell. Everytime I install/run new software, I have to add it to trusted exceptions. I’ve turned it off, then I turned off the resident protection and it still poped up. Don’t know if it’s a bug or maybe I’ve done something wrong, but I know I don’t need it.
I's like having a choice of a free Ferrari 458 Italia and a free Zastava Yugo. And you'd pick Yugo and insist on it to the death. WHY!?
You've answered yourself in your first sentence: because I have a choice. Generally speaking, I don't believe in any AV software to be perfect, I just needs it to inform me there might be something wrong with my system. As soon as I know that, I'm loading a clean copy from a ghost image. I'm using this method for years and it never ever let me down - all I've lost once was few MP3 & JPG files, which recovery took me literally few minutes.
Besides I have a 1,3 GHz processor and 512 RAM MB. I saw what 5 can do to my computer during hot moments. Even 4.8 likes to dangerously slow down my machine (for example during database update), but at least it's tolerable.
So it's not like I don't know new versions. I know them quite well and that's why I'm going to stay with 4.8 as long as it is supported. What's new not necessarily must be better in its every aspect and for everyone.
And most importantly, thank you prilodri - seems it’s working, I’ve messed with asw6Ldr.dll. But the question is how long 'till they develop the method to bypass it…
I don’t see anything wrong with advertising new version of software. But there should be an option to turn it off after seeing it once. Showing it notoriously if you like it or don’t is rather a disservice to a people like me.
You can edit extensions. Also if emulator is presenting a slowdown, just turn it off in avast! 6. Then you’ll get avast! 4.8 scanning engine with extra caching that will significantly speed things up. Also update process is now much more transparent and less intensive for the computer.
As much as you'd love for any avast! version to be automatically configured to your specific desires without some customisation, life just isn't like that. To expect avast! to automatically cater to your desired settings is quite frankly a ridiculous and boxed minded expectation.
Well taken, but I notice three new settings I don't need in the 6.0 configuration. The virtualization feature actually looks pretty cool to me... I will keep this in mind in the future as I am currently experimenting with Virtualbox and with VMWare to a more limited extent.
The only insanity is from the people not upgrading the the 6 versions, i find the new versions run lighter than any of the old versions and if you find that isnt so then you need to look at what other software you have running that maybe causing the slow downs.
It is strange how you can call avast bloatware
Sir, I said Avast 5.0 was bloatware... I installed Avast 4.x for a customer years ago and he liked it so much he started using it exclusively. When 5.x came out and he was forced to upgrade because of the nagging, he was upset. I also tried installing the free version of 5.0 on customers systems and I remember being very disappointed by it. I have not seen 6.0 yet.
Also to come here to the avast forums and state that your using cracked keys and then you want help on an old version of avast when there is a superiour new product in every aspect for free really makes me wonder how some people even remember to breathe.
If I went on the Apogee forums and told them that I'm still emulating Commander Keen in Dosbox, I hardly think anyone from their company would care (If they even still exist).
avast! 4.8 is using an outdated engine, its emulator is much more basic, it doesn't have proper heuristics, doesn't provide Script Shield, it doesn't have Behavior Shield, it doesn't have AutoSandbox and also scanned files are not cached which significantly increases performance.
You get all this in avast! 6. For free!
Ah yes, the sandbox feature, this is something I loathed in Comodo Antivirus.... I don't need my antivirus babysitting me, watching everything I do, making sure I don't defecate excrement in my underwear.
I’m not an expert in antivirus terminology, but what exactly is an antivirus program emulating? Are the heuristics good enough to warn me if the torrent I downloaded has an infected file? Probably. I stated that I don’t use Script Shield because I use Firefox with AdBlock Pro, and have never had any problem with this combination. I also disable the Adobe Acrobat Plugin so I manually open PDF files and they do not open in Firefox (Which is a common method of infection).
Oh yea, I am also not using the bloatware Acrobat Reader “X”. I hope you don’t mind.
I's like having a choice of a free Ferrari 458 Italia and a free Zastava Yugo. And you'd pick Yugo and insist on it to the death. WHY!? Take the Ferrari, take the avast! 6
I want an old mid to late 90s completely restored, fully loaded Toyota Camry? Why? [b]Because I like this car and no one will tell me what to choose[/b]. I guess you Europeans don't understand this because you have a collectivist (read: socialist) mindset, and individualistic thinking in the European Union is a thought crime.
