Beta 17.1.2282

Asyn · 2017-01-16T11:55:51.000Z

[quote="DavidR post:60, topic:732187"] It would be better if you attached the images to your post. That way people can view it in line without having to jump to another site. [/quote] 1. I thought that the images were too big and would make the forum cluttered. 2. I'll do it the next time. ;)

1. Not at all, one needs to click them to get opened/enlarged. 2. Please do so, like Dave, I avoid opening external links.

A.User · 2017-01-16T12:24:55.000Z

By the way the error (the one with the SecureDNS) is again here. Anyone else who has it?

Blocked threats by real time protection show up in the notifications, haven’t checked yet if they stay there after a restart, but maybe it is a good idea to have a log also for real time protection. Or better just create a log for everything like all the other AVs have.

Next to the “Threat blocked” notification in the notifications panel there is a button “Open in Virus Chest” even for threats blocked by the web shield. Since the stream scanning doesn’t allow creating a real .exe file to be quarantined, users can become concerned why there is nothing in the Chest.

MartinZ · 2017-01-17T14:13:57.000Z

RejZoR post:62:

I’m more concerned over the GUI design. They’ve made some really weird design decisions and very little time to address them properly… I hope they’ll still manage to do it, but my expectations are rather low and that’s worrying…

Hi Rejzor,

yes we plan to release some changes in the UI in next beta but the basic selection of the menu will stay for now and we will A/B test different approaches later on. Your proposal makes sense if we would have just AV functionality, which we don’t have a we must somehow organize the items. So that’s why it’s divided to Protection, Privacy, Performance. Adding a section of Tools would mean that this category would be much larger that the rest menu items and all new features would end up there. We tested the current layout on normal users and it wasn’t really an issue.

system · 2017-01-17T15:28:33.000Z

Hi All,
Of course I’m running this beta version…I’ve run several scan’s already. I have a question, on the status page there are two notification’s I can’t seem to get rid of…(1) There are a couple things to fix - Fix All (2) Real Site can’t run on this network - Repair . Is anyone else receiving these same notification’s ? I’m enclosing a screenshot of what I’m seeing.
Thanks,
David :o

RejZoR · 2017-01-17T16:51:10.000Z

MartinZ post:67:

RejZoR post:62:

I’m more concerned over the GUI design. They’ve made some really weird design decisions and very little time to address them properly… I hope they’ll still manage to do it, but my expectations are rather low and that’s worrying…

Hi Rejzor,

yes we plan to release some changes in the UI in next beta but the basic selection of the menu will stay for now and we will A/B test different approaches later on. Your proposal makes sense if we would have just AV functionality, which we don’t have a we must somehow organize the items. So that’s why it’s divided to Protection, Privacy, Performance. Adding a section of Tools would mean that this category would be much larger that the rest menu items and all new features would end up there. We tested the current layout on normal users and it wasn’t really an issue.

I’ve posted a new GUI draft in the GUI discussion thread. Ask Vlk about it, I’ve sent him the link as well.

Rednose · 2017-01-18T00:34:04.000Z

RejZoR post:62:

I’m more concerned over the GUI design. They’ve made some really weird design decisions and very little time to address them properly… I hope they’ll still manage to do it, but my expectations are rather low and that’s worrying…

With my hacker - and your Photoshop skills, we could try to change it inside next week

Greetz, Red.

MartinZ · 2017-01-18T07:31:07.000Z

davy49 post:68:

Hi All,
Of course I’m running this beta version…I’ve run several scan’s already. I have a question, on the status page there are two notification’s I can’t seem to get rid of…(1) There are a couple things to fix - Fix All (2) Real Site can’t run on this network - Repair . Is anyone else receiving these same notification’s ? I’m enclosing a screenshot of what I’m seeing.
Thanks,
David :o

Hi, this warning will be removed. It doesn’t make sense.

system · 2017-01-18T16:09:33.000Z

Hi MartinZ,
Thanks so much for your reply…it didn’t make sense to me either, of course things like that happen when using ‘beta’ software.
David

RejZoR · 2017-01-18T19:51:36.000Z

Hoping to see a new BETA soon. I wanna test it before we go to Prague

system · 2017-01-18T21:37:26.000Z

Hi RejZoR,
Just to let you know, now I’m getting the same notification on a different windows 10 computer. It doesn’t seem to be affecting the performance of the software though.
Thanks,
David

BeSecure · 2017-01-19T06:00:15.000Z

RejZoR post:73:

Hoping to see a new BETA soon.

Me too.

MartinZ · 2017-01-19T11:27:40.000Z

Be Secure post:75:

RejZoR post:73:

Hoping to see a new BETA soon.

Me too.

Me too ;D

Working hard on it, to release this week…

bob3160 · 2017-01-19T11:30:15.000Z

MartinZ post:76:

Be Secure post:75:

RejZoR post:73:

Hoping to see a new BETA soon.

Me too.

Me too ;D

Working hard on it, to release this week…

This is already Thursday. Better wait till next week to avoid problems over a weekend.

BeSecure · 2017-01-19T12:05:52.000Z

bob3160 post:77:

MartinZ post:76:

Be Secure post:75:

RejZoR post:73:

Hoping to see a new BETA soon.

Me too.

Me too ;D

Working hard on it, to release this week…

This is already Thursday. Better wait till next week to avoid problems over a weekend.

Hi! Bob.You have a point but it is a beta release hope not a avast RTM release.So nothing wrong with that.

bob3160 · 2017-01-19T12:24:25.000Z

A rushed beta will have the same adverse affect on you system as a final release.

noelrojasc · 2017-01-19T12:27:09.000Z

Be Secure post:75:

RejZoR post:73:

Hoping to see a new BETA soon.

Me too.

Me too!!!

RejZoR · 2017-01-19T19:32:37.000Z

bob3160 post:79:

A rushed beta will have the same adverse affect on you system as a final release.

Well, deadline is closing in either way, so, nothing will change either way if things go wrong now or later. I just prefer to have it sooner so if we find anything important, they can still fix it last minute.

A.User · 2017-01-19T20:20:30.000Z

Okay so i’ll post now but i guess that you won’t respond. I start to ask myself if there is some good at posting such things or i’m just wasting my time.

I’ve turned all shields for 10 minutes off from the right-click of the tray, then opened the interface and clicked the “FiX ALL” button, it changed from a red “X” to the yellow sign and showed “dashboard.some_shields_off.action” and the FIX ALL button disappeared. The web shield was showing as off in the settings, so i turned it on and clicked OK. Now it is showing as ON in the settings and off in the main GUI. I tested it with EICAR and it is actually off, the file was blocked by the file shield after download, not during the download by the web shield. Now what i’m waiting for is for someone to come and say: “Open control panel and repair because the avast team doesn’t care”.

system · 2017-01-20T07:25:53.000Z

interesting i tried to replicate what you said and i can not get it to that here. ill re test again tomm

system · 2017-01-20T14:19:48.000Z

Hi All,
I agree about releasing a new beta too soon, I’d rather wait and give the software developer’s a chance to work out as may ‘bugs’ as possible.
David

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