The update has now been officially released as 4.7.892. You can get it by invoking the “Program Update” feature from within the avast GUI, or downloading the setup packages from www.avast.com. Thanks to everyone who helped testing.
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as promised, here’s the new (pre-release) version of the upcoming update of avast! Home/Professional. The main feature of this (unofficial) release is added compatibility with Vista RC1.
How to install it: this time, I’m providing direct links to whole setup packages (as for Vista, you need to install it from scratch, as opposed to using the avast program updater; on non-Vista systems, you can use the old aswBeta trick which will give you v4.7.881 as well).
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There is a number of fixes in this release. Here’s the list of most important changes:
avast is now compatible with Windows Vista RC1 (but Vista still warns that there are some “compatibility issues” when the main avast scanner is executed - we’re working together with MS on removing these warnings; hopefully, by the time the update goes official, we’ll have this fixed, too). Also, there are two remaining known problems on Vista: 1) the eicar.com test file is not detected ON EXECUTE (as opposed to on-download, on-open, on-write etc), and 2) avast sounds are not installed
added back CHM unpacker (and this time, as an added benefit, it should work even in the boot-time scanner)
fixed a bug that could be causing crash of the scanner on certain UPX packed executable (PLEASE TEST full on-demand scans)
added a workaround to problems with compatibility with Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall (remaints of menus on the screen + seldom hang of avast program on start)
better detection of ZoneAlarm Pro (to prevent unnecessary WebShield incompatibility warnings)
Any comments on this release are welcome and appreciated!
Works fine with Vista RC1 Build 5600.
But the Programm will make a Downgrade when at Autoupdate.
I have Change it to Manuell Check for a New Version of Avast.
I can verify that when the program itself is updated it installs version 4.7.871 and is then blocked due to driver compatibility issues on next reboot.
I finally managed to upgrade it to the new beta version (by downloading the whole package)… but after I manually tried to invoke Program update, this is what happened:
I just scanned my whole system, 4 partitions, total of 120 Gb of data scanned, thorough scan method used, and it took approximatelly around 3 and a half hours.
I am happy to confirm that ashSimpl.exe does NOT crash on my system any more. I am just waiting to see if Alwil guys will solve these issues with updates and downgrades.
I can verify that when the program itself is updated it installs version 4.7.871 and is then blocked due to driver compatibility issues on next reboot.
Yeah, sorry, that was my bad - but very easily remedied, all I needed to do is swap the servers.def file on our updating server.
If I am not having problems of any sort, shouldn’t I wait until the program updates itself?
It will automatically update when version 4.7.881 is released won’t it ???
Function setifaceUpdatePackages() has failed. Return code is 0x2000000A, dwRes is 2000000A."
That can sometimes happen even when using other OS. It means “another instance of the updater is already running” – meaning, for example, that you invoked a manual update during the execution of an auto-update.
Avast limits concurrency of the update process, i.e. there can be only one instance of the updater running at a time…
Unfortunatelly that’s still not true VLK… it still doesn’t work. See my screenshot. There is your reply in the background ad pay attention to the program versions…
