I’m glad to announce the availability of the long awaited avast! Mac Edition.
Please refer to http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-antivirus-mac-edition.html for details.
The pricing is the same as with avast! Professional Edition, with an extra 25% introductory discount.
Thanks!
Vlk
Finally! 
Is there a german edition available?
thx
Tevion
No language versions yet, sorry.
If there is a way to translate it without using a Mac… I have Windows and Linux to work on it…
Well the help files should be easy, but don’t know abut the interface
Oh, thats a pity … i wanted to buy it as a christmas gift for my sister
which has a macbook pro.
Congratulation
This step should definitly give Alwil a boost in sales, also with the packs as Avast now supports all operating systems (except sun’s ;D )
Keep up the good work, I’ll recommand Avast for Macs, is there any chance that it will be sold in Apple stores ??
Al968
I dont think ALWIL sells any of their products in Boxed form so I dont think you Will see it in the Apple Store.
Irrespective of language of avast! for mac - see my last post -i have just bought it as a Christmas gift for my sister.
(1 year licence ;D)
Is there a possibility to get a cd-cover for it, because there is no boxed version available and i have to burn a cd.
Frontside would be enough
And thanks to Alwil for discount 25 percent!!
Tevion
I downloaded the free version of avast for Mac and every time I open it, it opens the mail software. I don’t use mail for my emails. How can I stop avast from doing that?
yea…this is quite irritating! by the way, is there a free version?
by the way, is there a free version?I don't Think so
Yes, more users complained about this (but, this behavior was present in few recent beta versions too, and nobody complained or had any remark during beta-testing) - in the very next release, this will be fixed/supressed.
regards,
PC
Well a few things, first, I can’t seem to check for updates. Avast for the Mac locks up every time I do and I have to force quit it. I have it allowed in the Mac Firewall. Running 10.5.1. I am also kind of disappointed that after using the FREE!!! version for Windows for quite awhile I have to pay for the Mac version. I feel slighted :). And I agree having mail.app every time is annoying and hard to believe no one who beta tested said anything. Lastly, Avast! for the Mac actually flags itself with a warning which I find peculiar. Anyway, thats my two cents.
Hallo,
please, specify the exact version of Your system and machine. I re-tested updating mechanism on 10.5.1 (build 9B18), and it works as expected. Such freezing was never observed/reported - even with broken connectivity, the manual update attempt will end after timeout, with an allert window, there’s no need for forcing quit / explicit killing.
Update uses standart http connection, but the target IP might vary (we have more update-servers), so please verify Your firewall settings first, and report eventually more details about this case.
Thanks for Your report.
regards,
PC
okay, 10.5.1 build (9B18) running on a late 2006 2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac. As far has having to force quit, it does first say “checking for incremental updates”, then “downloading update (please wait)…”, then after a time just switches to the spinning rainbow ball and in the Dock it says Application not responding, and the option to force quit.
Well, tested on my Intel MacBook Pro Core2 right now, against the same build 9B81 - and it works. The problem is maybe that it really takes time (the update is not incremental yet), and during this process, GUI is busy.
Are You sure, that the state is futile and never-ending? Also, use “top” utility to get a clue whether avast! (gui) or com.avast.MacAvast.MAD (engine) consumes time or not. If not, it’s probably still waiting for the web-downloading to complete.
For now, I’m unable to reproduce this flaw.
regards,
PC
10.5.1 build 9B18 (Intel Core Duo Mac Mini) Updating works as expected but the update does take a while to download.
And I agree having mail.app every time is annoying and hard to believe no one who beta tested said anything.I keep mail running 99% of the time anyway so Guess it never bothered me ::)