After replacing avast! 4.1 with Kaspersky Antivirus Personal 5 (buyed it for 39 ā¬!) I thought āgive the 4.5 Version of AVAST! a tryā (the worm-blocker seems to be a nice addon for 4.5 ).
So I uninstalled Kaspersky and installed Avast 4.5 beta:
WOW - I was realy impressed. First I made a complete scan of my Harddisks and avast! found 2 Trojans (Trojanoā¦) which KAV didnāt find. And the Overall Systemspeed is much better with avast! (dont know if this was the case with 4.1 coz I used KAV for some month now :D) despite of itās use of RAM (Kaspersy used only the half amount of RAM of AVAST). Video-Files open faster, loading times are much faster, even my scores in some benchmarks went up (I think AVAST hast a lower CPU-Usage than KAV).
And then therer are the many many configuration possibilities of the GUARD (the e-Mail guard for example is awesome) which werenāt there with KAV
To sum it up:
A free antivirus prog isnāt always worse than a expensive antivirus-prog.
ā> Guys - add me to the list of satisfied AVAST! user again
2 questions:
Can I use RejZorās /Craftecās Sharp-Skin with this release (itās the only skin besides āskinlessā I realy love - it should belong to the standard skins)?
When will beta-releases supported with new definition-updates? I think if you want someone to be beta-tester for alwil it is recommended that these user get the same update-support than user of normal releases (if this isnāt the case it would be very dangerous to be beta-tester for you - not only because there might be bugs in the beta releases )
Hey Timo,
Itās radicalb21. To answer your first questions about the skins Iām using the skin you are talking about with no problems. To answer your second question VLK wrote the following:
āThis time there should be no problems thoughā¦ā
This only happen when I read the new mail. The mail that are marked as already read doesnāt happen nothing.
Iāve set the āStandard Shieldā to scan all the created/modified files, so I think that is this, because when I read the new mail, the process āashServ.exeā takes about +/-30MB of CPU and the last scanned file in āStandard Shiledā is the file of where the mail isā¦
I didnāt know if this happen with the previous versionā¦
I only asked for beta-vps-updates because in one AVAST 4.1 beta-build (think it was a newer build for french-translation) I never got definition-updates from your server
Me neitherā¦ I erased them all from my hard drive. I hate them from the guts. If I see the guy who made them, Iāll cut hisā¦ hmmmā¦ handā¦ ;D
Btw, I just made new skin for avast! Itās called āINVISIBLE GUIā. Itās so invisible, that you can not find it on the skins download section. To be true, I couldnāt find it myselfā¦ I just have to find a way how to start avast! after enabling this skinā¦ ;D ;D ;D
Thank you all that made that skins. Really wonderful ones.
To Alwil team: I canāt believe you made this for free ;D Users are always complaining and you did it for freeā¦ 8) Anyway, Sasha, you wonāt have all kinds of people pleased at the same timeā¦ Human nature :
About the professionalist and effectiveness of an application by itās GUI, well, no comments
New resident provider: Network Shield. It protects the computer from the attacks of Internet worms (e.g. Blaster, Sasser, etc.). It will show warning messages in the system area (above the system clock) every time it detects an Internet worm attack. There is a logging feature too: all attacks will be recorded into a log file so that you can inspect their history, frequency, etc. The last detected attacks will be displayed on the Last attacks page.
Network Shield provider will protect your computer from Internet worm attacks. It works similarly to a firewall, even though it does not fully substitutes it. The Network Shield does not require any user interraction. Note: This resident provider will be available on Windows NT, 2000, XP, and 2003 only.
I like to know about whether heuristics will be included in the new version. I wish to see heuristics in every part of the program. Heuristics will enable avast to catch more unknown viruses.
First, catching āunknown virusesā also means having a lot of false alarms.
Second, programming a reasonably working heuristics takes some time - so donāt expect this part of avast! to change any time soon (if ever).
You mean it wonāt have heuristics in v5.0? Signature only detection isnāt the key to success i belive. Detection does rely hevaily on signatures,but many antiviruses increase their detection rate 5-10% with heuristics.
Heuristics in avast! mail scanner are done quiet well and i belive some parts could be used in Standard Shield too. Even the most basic thing can be better than nothing. Also detecting large number of packers used for the same file (i saw some file packed with 3 or even 5 packers,thats very unusual for a clean file). Also UPX packed executables can be checked if packer is modified or not (i saw this method in some freware GUI based UPX packer/unpacker program).
Itās not yet on the web page for download (