Hi all 
I am just curious : When will Avast! 5 go into a public Beta ???
Greetz, Red.
From last info known from Vlk, sometime in 2008 (if everything goes ok).
Can you give us any idea about the changes compared to version 4.x ???
Greetz, Red.
Well we know there will be a huge upgrade to engine itself (packers which are constantly being updated anyway, possible generic unpacking engine). There is also a chance to see some form of heuristic scanning but ALWIL team is going to put some more effort in behavioral detection instead. We can as well expect GUI changes but nothing known so far.
will the major changes of Avast version 5 render the current skins for the interface unusable.
I usually find other AV’s fancy GUI pretty unusefull, I would like to have the same GUI or at least something very close to actual GUI which is both very functional and intuitive.
When I say other AV’s you know: norman, panda, bitdefender (awfull!!!), mcafee, symantec, kasp, they all stink, they go the artificial fancy way.
When I see the topic I became happy… I thought it was an official announcement 
LOL same here Tech xD xD
That means you can ask the same question again , starting from tomorrow ;D ;D ;D
Oh whatever they do PLEASE make sure the Terminal-0010 skin works with all future versions! That is the only interface I can use and it makes avast awesome! 8)
I see no reason for losing support of it…
I however do. Skins may be fun but honestly, ppl prefer streamlined, all in one interface over bunch of windows and menus here and there all seperated to dozen of panels. It’s simply not useful and only confuses users regardless of how cool skins are.
Avira AntiVir interface is an example of good design. Kaspersky Antivirus 6 and 7 also fall into this category. If avast! will ever look something like this i’ll ditch skins without any problem (i don’t use them anyway)…
Don’t get me wrong, I like avast, but I find the skins gimmicky and would prefer a straightforward GUI, just my opinion.
Happy New Year, all ;D
I’m afraid I’ll have to disappoint you, but the GUI will certainly be redesigned and the skins from avast! 4 won’t work there.
The underlying technology, ActiveSkin, is quite obsolete (= it’s not developed anymore, and without the sources there’s no way to fix the problems - and there are quite a few).
I don’t know if there will be any (alternative) skinning options in avast! 5 or not - but ActiveSkin will be the first thing to get rid of, sorry.
Don’t be. Making the skin was fun (i can say for my own, i’m sure Sasha had lots of fun doing all the skins too) but major GUI redesign is a need if we want avast! to be even more popular. Even if that means no skinning capability…
Loose the skinning ability is sad… Hope you can find another alternative.
With very high probability, skin support will be dropped from avast 5.
This decision has been made after a long consideration (we uderstand that it won’t make happy some people but we still believe it will be a good move for avast and the vast majority of its users).
Plus, there have been some extra problems with the skins in terms of supportability (descirbing the UI wasn’t that straightforward etc).
While I don’t (personally) agree with RejZor that AntiVir’s GUI is good, I’m quite confident the new avast GUI will make him very happy as it will fit his description quite well while still looking somewhat cool… 
Anyway, please don’t ask us for exact schedules. It is simply too early. E.g. the GUI’s development has started only very recently, so it will take quite some time before we have something that can actually be “tested”…
Cheers
Vlk
Well, i’m sure there is room for improvement even for AntiVir GUI but i found it’s tabbed interface to be quiet friendly to navigate and centralized settings easy to find and manage (similar applies to KAV6 and KAV7 interface). Vlk, don’t forget to post some screenshots of the GUI when it’s mainly done in “you know where”, so we can check it out and maybe give some feedback
I think these dev-user feedback has created some very positive results so far
So, just to recap… avast 5 is due later this year… 
Happy New Year to everyone!
Well if the skins wont work is the standard default one for version 5 going to be neat and clean looking?