I found a bug about the password.

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I set the password for avast.
In principle, I need to type the correct password to stop avast working or change the setting.
But I discovered I just have to type thousands of words when avast ask for password and it will stop its service.
And then, I can change anything I want.
It just like password doesn’t exist.
PLEASE FIX THE PROBLEM ASAP.

This video shows everything

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3Fl5w2nLPg

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Hello,A4214909! Welcome to the forum!
I’ve just updated to 7.0.1426 via the GUI and i can’t reproduce it!

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hi

this video can tell you what happened

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3Fl5w2nLPg

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hmm … just checked and can’t reproduce … anyone from Avast can have a look ? ;D

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Yeah, I’ll fix that.

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@A4214909 what version of Avast did you use to do that? 7.0.1407 ?

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is 1426 affected?

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7.0.1426
:o

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Apparently it’s not affected. See Andrey,pro’s post above…

@A4214909
Yeah, new update has just been released.

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okay I could reproduce :o … just pasting 20 times or more the same wrong password (in one single row) … jesus ;D … then getting a wrong password alert, and opening the settings panel without any problem …

1426 is affected

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Oops… :-\

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Has the problem be fixed?

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I don’t think so. Currently the latest program update is v. 7.0.1426

A couple of users have reported that also v. 7.0.1426 is affected. We’ll see what happens…

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Some information here:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=95170.msg759211#msg759211

Regards