Removed: off topic 
As I said there have been times, seen in these forums, when the first instance of a hidden/undetected piece of malware was the presence of outgoing spam mails.
If the user has no email client, then no resources would be consumed, so there really no mega gain of not having the shield active. Not to mention the options given in a custom install, minimal install. Plus there are a number of components that I would suggest that could well be removed as I wouldn’t consider them security related.
Also, I’d say that this discussion is OT here, as it isn’t directly related to the latest beta.
Yep…removed.
When I was installing avast! Premier BETA, I’ve noticed Anti-Ransomware Shield is already listed in components page, but not activated in the main interface yet.
I wonder what’s the purpose of 3 Shield switches under “Main UI → Protection - Antivirus” when there are so many shields now that aren’t listed there. It’s kind of pointless and should just be removed entirely. We have to rely on Components menu for everything anyway, why clutter Antivirus page with it? Makes no sense.
Yes.Anti-ransomware Shield is already listed in components page, but not in setting components list thats makes no sence and Avast behavior shield and anti-ransomware description are same. ???
There seems to be small graphical “glitch” when doing right click on icon - Registration information.
Both Update and Registration information are selected via this shortcut.
@Lord_Ami,
For me, doing a right click does nothing. Left click selects the selected topic ???
I mean on the Avast tray icon
I can confirm that result.
http://screencast-o-matic.com/screenshots/u/Lh/1496581382278-39511.png
Says “Subscription information” instead of “Registration information” in my case. Hm. Using US English.
Could that be because you are running Avast Premier which is a subscription/license product and not Avast Free.
I reported this minor bug on February 20th via the dev channel. It was a known issue then and still is.
On this matter I was just wondering whether the Mail shield and the Anti-spam work only with Outlook and Thunderbird or with other clients as well… I have been using for a while “Windows Mail” (v17 on Win10), but I never saw any Avast warning or “Avast Spam Box”…
The Mail Shield protects email clients not webmail, which would be covered by the web shield.
For the most part it will try to work with all email clients (I use Thunderbird without issue), there are some strange ones that may not be compatible, such a Eudura. There is no anti-spam in the mail shield, that only occurs if you are using MS Outlook email client as that has an add-on essentially the mail shield is working inside the client.
I don’t use Windows Mail, A.K.A. Windows Live Mail, formally Outlook Express. I presume you are using it as webmail ?
BSOD, BSOD, BSOD.
OK, I have just restored my last drive image taken before updating to this beta (now back with 17.5.2296), whilst I didn’t find any issues (didn’t really have time to do any testing). I felt like a crash test dummy and needed a seatbelt on my computer chair.
I had a BSOD during the restart after the update, after the reboot avast again asked for a reboot. Did that no BSOD, but whilst working I got another BSOD. The final straw was this evening when in the avastUI one of the screens was blank (white) and the UI locked up, couldn’t close it.
I used tray icon to open about avast, and got to troubleshooting to disable the avast self defence module. I killed the avastUI.exe but it still didn’t like that I had no UI but a ghost space on the screen and the avastUI still on the Taskbar.
I then got my third BSOD and with the time wasted already (hours) I wasn’t going to keep on with this, I restored my last drive image which took between 15-20 minutes all in.
So far all appears stable on 17.5.2296 and have switched to Manual Program Update. I have collected 3 minidumps and two memory.dmp files if anyone is interested, no support package run.
Hi, can anyone from the team please enlighten me/us what “Sensitive Data Scan” is for…!?
Didn’t we have something before about protecting ‘Private Data’ before (possibly I’m thinking about SecureLine VPN), but certainly ‘not’ a scan. How they would determine what is private data much less scan for it.
It’s new and I also asked about it on Slack, reply is still pending…