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Avast AV Beta-Version [20.4.2410]

Changelog/Fixes:
• Crash in aswmonflt driver

Known issues:
• Software updater internal DB still not updated

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[font=verdana]Avast AV Release-Version [20.4.2410]

Changelog/Fixes:
• Safer web browsing - Web Shield can now block malicious sites based on their site certificates
• Improved support - Our support team can now help you send them logs to diagnose problems
• Avast Firewall is now compatible with Microsoft Wireless Display adapter
• Sleep mode works with the latest Windows Spring 2020 Update
• Behavioral shield improvements
• Better internal tracking of license activation errors in order to improve the activation process
• Switching Free to Paid (and back) is now smoother
• URL exclusions security improvements
• …and dozens of the usual minor crashes and internal stability improvements

Infos & Feedback: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=234639.0

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[font=verdana]Avast AV Beta-Version [20.5.2411]

[size=8pt]Changelog/Fixes:
• Introducing Remote Access Shield - This new feature lets you choose who can remotely access your computer and lets you block the rest. (Premium Security users only)
• Ransomware Shield is now free - We’re now offering this feature to Avast Free Antivirus users to maximize their ransomware protection
• Better USB drive protection - We’ll now ask you to scan USB drives when you plug them into your computer. (You can also turn this off in your notification settings)
• Improved taskbar icon - There’s no need to keep your antivirus open during scans. You can now see your scan progress from the Avast taskbar icon
• Google QUIC protocol support added to Webshield - It can affect anything from the “google ecosystem” so please let us know in case of any issues with e.g. Chrome, Opera, MS Edge, Drive, Calendar, Youtube…
• Based on the customers feedbak we changed the design of buttons in bank mode

Known issues:
• Rescue disc cannot be created in some cases

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[font=verdana]Avast AV Beta-Version [20.5.2412]

[size=8pt]Changelog/Fixes:
• Sun-setting PRO/IS editions support
• Many bugs and crashes fixed
• RemoteAccessShield - IP blacklist now works

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[font=verdana]Avast AV Beta-Version [20.5.2413]

[size=8pt]Changelog/Fixes:
• Rescue Disk is now working also with UEFI
• Fixed issue when computer shutdown was sometimes blocked if avast service was unable to stop

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[font=verdana]Avast AV Beta-Version [20.5.2414]

[size=8pt]Changelog/Fixes:
• Change related to avast service start/stop on older operating systems (Windows 7)

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[font=verdana]Avast AV Beta-Version [20.5.2415]

[size=8pt]Changelog/Fixes:
• Change related to dialogs for new Remote Access Shield

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[font=verdana]Avast AV Release-Version [20.5.2415]

Changelog/Fixes:
• Introducing Remote Access Shield - Enjoy even stronger protection against hackers. This new feature lets you choose who can remotely access your computer and lets you block the rest. (Premium Security users only)
• Ransomware Shield is now free - We’re now offering this feature to Avast Free Antivirus users to maximize their ransomware protection
• Easier USB drive protection - We’ll now ask you to scan USB drives when you plug them into your computer. (You can also turn this off in your notification settings)
• Improved taskbar icon - There’s no need to keep your antivirus open during scans. You can now see your scan progress from the Avast taskbar icon.
• Better botnet protection - Web Shield is even better about stopping malware from connecting to malicious servers
• Corner cases when Firewall was consuming too much CPU in correlation with VPS requests
• Cleanup install detection upon switching to x64 version (Congrats to Cleanup team and sorry when the app was being offered to you even if you had it already)
• Bugs in protecting passwords stored in Firefox and Chrome that were installed after Avast AV
• Some Rescue Disc failures when being created on USB
• UI glitches for enabling/disabling shield in Protection section

Infos & Feedback: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=235206.0

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[font=verdana]Avast AV Beta-Version [20.6.2416]

[size=8pt]Changelog/Fixes:
• Fixed BSOD during stopping AV services
• Fixed incorrect UI behavior, when Remote Access Shield was not installed the shield was visible in UI
• Fixed issue when IDP incorrectly informed that file can/cannot be removed during detection
• Fixed issue in UI when some buttons on dialogues were not visible when user had two monitors with different resolution

Known issues:
• When Remote Access Shield or Real Site are disabled, there is a list of errors displayed in UI
• With enabled passive mode the AV service and UI won’t start

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[font=verdana]Avast AV Beta-Version [20.6.2417]

[size=8pt]Changelog/Fixes:
• Simplification of privacy settings - merging 2 data sharing properties (Share app-usage data with Avast to help us with new product development / …with 3rd-party analytics tools to improve this app) while respecting the previous user choice - so if any one of the former properties was ticked off, the new merged setting will be ticked off as well.
• Improved UI startup performance
• Fixed issue when internal drive was offered to be scanned as external HDD
• Fixed crash in webshield
• Fixed UI crash
• Fixed crash of AV service during OS restart
• Fixed issue in UI when Remote Access Shield or Real Site are disabled

Known issues:
• When passive mode is enabled AV service and UI does not start

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[font=verdana]Avast AV Beta-Version [20.6.2418]

[size=8pt]Changelog/Fixes:
• Fixed issue with not running AV service and UI when user enabled passive mode and restarted
• Fixed crash in UI
• Fixed issue with Instup.exe and Icarus.exe generating a lot of FW rules and asking for permission
• Fixed issue that Chrome browser was not installed even when the checkbox was selected in Chrome browser offer
• Fixed issue when in some rare cases creation of rescue disk failed
• Fixed issue when there was a conflict with windows installer

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[font=verdana]Avast AV Beta-Version [20.6.2419]

[size=8pt]Changelog/Fixes:
• Fixed handle leak

Known issues:
• Instup.exe and Icarus.exe generating a lot of FW rules and asking for permission

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[font=verdana]Avast AV Beta-Version [20.6.2420]

[size=8pt]Changelog/Fixes:
• Fixed heap corruption dumps

Known issues:
• Instup.exe and Icarus.exe generating a lot of FW rules and asking for permission

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[font=verdana]Avast AV Release-Version [20.6.2420]

Changelog/Fixes:
• Simplified privacy settings - We’ve updated our privacy settings to make it easier to manage your privacy
• Payment notification - If for any reason your payment fails during an automatic subscription renewal, we’ll now let you know on the main dashboard
• Malfunctioned Chrome distribution upon install
• Nasty Passive mode error (frozen UI, disabled service)
• Some more rare Rescue Disk creation failures
• IDP incorrectly stating that detection can/can’t be removed
• Handle leak
• Heap corruption fix
• UI issues when Remote Access Shield or Real Site were disabled as custom install components
• Tray icon misbehavior when enabling/disabling components
• Disabling confusing Firewall toaster on Unidentified network

Infos & Feedback: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=236705.0

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[font=verdana]Avast AV Beta-Version [20.7.2421]

[size=8pt]Changelog/Fixes:
• Moving configuration from files to registry keys to improve related performance and reliability
• “Avast Passwords” component is not installed by default → User needs to manually check it during setup
• Accessibility support for blind/impaired people in setup - Part 1 (The most of texts in setup should be read by screen reader app if it is installed (NVDA, JAWS) but task is not complete. There are still issues that some elements are not read at all / are read twice or in wrong order → Usability is not perfect. We will try to improve it in next BETA builds.)
• Sensitive Data Shield status reported correctly even after disabling passive mode
• Icarus.exe process does not ask for connection permission (in Firewall) anymore

Known issues:
• Stopping SmartScan may freeze the UI (You need to restart the machine if you encounter the issue)
• Reset and restore (from backup in file) of the settings does not work properly
• Setup can crash during AV uninstall (It is not visible to user and AV should be completely removed from PC but some .mdmp files can be created in the root of the system drive, e.g. c:)

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[font=verdana]Avast AV Beta-Version [20.7.2422]

[size=8pt]Changelog/Fixes:
• User Interface: numerous accessibility improvements, including new colors, sizes, etc.
• Stopping SmartScan may freeze the User Interface
• Kernel crash (BSOD) caused by aswNetHub.sys (Avast Network Security) driver
• Fxed crash of setup during AV uninstall

Known issues:
• Smart scan can be automatically executed after the update from presious 20.7 BETA build
• There is issue with installation the product into a folder containing diacritics (and other characters may be affected too)
• Not all configuration is removed from registry after uninstallation
• Reset and restore (from backup file) of the settings does not work properly
• List of sensitive documents found or already protected shows just one file (although all found files are protected - user interface problem)
• Changing User Interface language may require a reboot to take effect

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[font=verdana]Avast AV Beta-Version [20.7.2423]

[size=8pt]Changelog/Fixes:
• Not all configuration is removed from registry after uninstallation (just settings that needs to remain)
• Reset and restore (from backup file) of the settings does not work properly
• Changing UI language no longer requires a reboot
• List of sensitive documents found or already protected shows just one file (although all found files are protected - user interface problem)

Known issues:
• Smart scan can be automatically executed after the update from presious 20.7 BETA build (actually not so common as there must not be any UI openning before the update)
• There is issue with installation of the product into a folder containing diacritics (and other characters may be affected too)

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Avast AV Beta-Version [20.7.2424]

Changelog/Fixes:
• Firewall not blocking ICMP requests during UDP scanning

Hinweis: We found out that there could be a problem with stopping our main Avast Service during restart or shutdown of the computer. If you encounter such a problem we would really appreciate to let us know so we can ask you for some diagnostics data from the machine.

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Avast AV Beta-Version [20.7.2425]

Changelog/Fixes:
• Small bugfix related to user interface status when free edition is upgraded to paid one

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[font=verdana]Avast AV Release-Version [20.7.2425]

Changelog/Fixes:
• Signing in via Google or Facebook - If you choose one of these to sign in, we’ll now redirect you to their websites instead of doing it inside of our app
• Fixed shield statuses - The on/off statuses for Password Protection and Remote Access Shield are now properly reflected in your UI. (Avast Premium Security only)
• Improved performance - Your antivirus now runs even smoother thanks to tighter integrations with the Windows registry and boot optimizations
• The incorrect yellow dashboard state after a new version was released, even though auto-updates were on
• The incorrect “expired” dashboard status after an upgrade from free to paid [AVG only]
• SmartScan stopping caused UI freezing in some cases
• Firewall Public mode was not blocking ICMP responses while scanning, but now it does
• Fixed impact of new CEF on IPM content and IDP
• Fixes in restoring settings from backup files
• Changing language needed you to restart, which was not intended
• The incorrect handling of file size in virus chest was preventing more files to be added
• Rescue disk now checks for USB drive size

Infos & Feedback: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=237545.0