Just killing a little time and wondering how Avast 7 will be an improvement over 6. I know Vlk has mentioned that it will address some of the not so great detection rates in recent months, but I was hoping someone with actual knowledge might shed a little light as to what we can expect.
While I know some of the details, I’m not allowed to tell you. Sorry.
I can not wait Avast 7 - beta 
Surely many people quake in anticipation !
Most of us are simply waiting patiently. ;D
While I know some of the details, I’m not allowed to tell you. Sorry.
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Like you I know some of the details. But like everyone else I can’t wait for beta testing.
Not me ;D
Greetz, Red.
Let me know if it helps you get it any faster… ;D ;D ;D
If it comes with Windows 8 support (next month when Windows 8 Beta is released to public) then I will definitely try it. I hope we can use Avast 6 license key on it because I still have a few months on the license left (Internet Security)
I believe VLK mentioned that Version 7 will be partially cloud-based according to an interview with CNET. Hopefully that will help increase the detection rates.
Some features will be indeed in the cloud.
Just searched and found the CNET interview…
http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20074377-12/avast-to-go-mobile-get-vpn/?tag=mncol;txt
Well, mobile has already arrived of course.
As for the VPN service…patience ;)…if all goes smoothly, it’s time wont be very far away.
Half way down VLK addresses Ver 7 for PCs.
VLK is the avast president
No he isn’t the avast! President, but the ‘Chief Technology Officer’ (CTO) at avast!
I guess you could say Eduard Kučera is the president (chairman). He’s also the co-founder of avast! Software.
Also a heck of a nice Guy.
Back to the topic for a minute.
Detection might be improved by cloud technologies. But what about removal rates which have not been good as well? What can or might be done to address this?
Maybe I’m wrong, but for now there is not much we (simple users) can do. My guess is that Avast Team has been collecting requests, suggestions, bugs, experience… over the years, and they know about the industry enough so to make a decent beta. We (simple users) will be able to review and test the beta, and the suggestions and requests will continue, not just before this first beta but all the time.
So, with or without patience, maybe the best we can do for now is wait a few days/weeks/months, and then keep suggesting ideas :).
Just catching up with the forum and clicked through to that article. I find this part alarming:
“Vlcek went on to talk about what’s coming in the 2012 Avast suite, due next February. Avast will be moving at least some of its threat definitions to the cloud”
It seems to me that moving definitions to the cloud by extension means that the supposed security software must transmit your files and/or data about your files to the cloud where things are analyzed. A purely manual feature that is only explicitly triggered by the user to perform some kind of extra special analysis via the cloud is one thing. A thing security/privacy conscious people wouldn’t need to protect against (they would simply not use it or be careful to only submit files they know aren’t sensitive in some way). However, my gut is telling me that isn’t what he is referring to.
Please tell me future Avast users won’t have to expose themselves to the profound security and privacy risk that is having their supposed security software send information about their files to the cloud (or any other remote system) for scanning/detections. I never expected to see the day that security professionals reshaped their software to violate basic tenants of security/privacy and behave similarly to spyware, but I fear I’m seeing that.