* Introducing * - beta version of upcoming avast update (now 4.7.1026)

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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The update has now been officially released as 4.7.1029. Thanks to everyone who helped testing.

Hi *,

again, it’s my pleasure to announce a pre-release version of the upcoming update of avast! Home/Professional. The version currently has a nice build number - 4.7.1024 [Edit: now 4.7.1026).

How to install it (for starters - most people already know this trick anyway ): simply download and run the following program: link removed. That’s about all it takes (provided you have the latest version of avast Home/Pro already installed, of course).

There is a number of fixes in this release. Here’s the list of most important changes:

  • fixed a bug that was sometimes causing crash of the avast screensaver during its initialization
  • improved handling of corrupted files in the SIS and CAB unpackers
  • Standard Shield: fixed a minor memory leak in the Vista (and Vista only) driver
  • Standard Shield: improved the “move to chest” command in Vista
  • Standard Shield: the default scan exceptions are no valid for read/write access only (no execute)
  • added more “installer” unpackers
  • added more winexec unpackers (enigma, …)
  • for NTLM proxy authorization (via ISA Server) it is now possible to specify the account under which the avast service will perform the update
  • added Arabic language pack

Any comments on this release are very welcome and appreciated!

Thanks
Vlk

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Nice to see another program update :slight_smile:

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Update worked like a charm. All running smoothly as usual :wink:

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http://shrani.si/files/ziperror14hoq.png

I’ve found this issue (i’m not sure if it existed before). If i perform on-demand scan using Thorough mode and “Scan Archives” option i get these errors. Using right click scan doesn’t produce such errors.
File in question is ZoneAlarm installer. Problem is only that it’s 40MB in size. Should i upload ZoneAlarm installer to your FTP ?

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I don’t think there have been any changes in the ZIP unpacker… and it’s possible that ashQuick doesn’t report some errors.
But yes, you can upload the file, I’ll take a look at it.
Thanks.

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Ok, i just finished uploading the file. You can check it out on FTP.

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Just finished a thorough scan (with archives). Seeing the same errors as RejZoR on zip archives but also this error on a .exe install file - see attached image.

However, an ashquick scan of the same file reports no errors.

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I think I can see what’s wrong with Rejzor’s file… I’ll try to do something about it (it can be unpacked correctly), but it probably won’t be for this version (as I’m leaving for holidays tomorrow ;)). Btw, other packers (pkunzip, WinRAR, TotalCmd) are not able to unpack the file either.

alan, I don’t see anything wrong about your report… i.e. I think avast! is correct in this case.

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I just removed the avast beta from my system and performed the same scan - the error is not reported.

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I just noticed that the current version of avast reports the same zip files as corrupted even though they open in Winzip without any problem.

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Well, the previous version unpacked less, so you may not have reached those reported files…

What zip file do you mean? The ZoneAlarm installer?

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cosmetic change does it have to be messed up?

Here with the old version:

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Here with the beta:

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igor,

these are the zip errors I was referring to. The files open just fine with Winzip … but it appears that the unpacker is unpacking exe files contained within the zip file and complaining about them.

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Yes, that’s right - it’s related to the internal files, not the outer zip archive.

Regarding the skin problem, I hope I fixed that. Thanks.

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Let’s beta ;D
I’ll report any problem I can discover/see.

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Me too.

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i would like to try this but if it’s beta do’s that mean that i would have to uninstall it to install the next version when it comes out :slight_smile: thanks

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lurkingatu2

when you join the beta program (by using aswbeta.exe) then whenever you use the “get program updates” function from the avast menu you will get the latest beta update. This will last until the avast team distributes the new live version (or makes the latest beta the live version) when we are all automatically dropped from the beta program and continue on the live version of the program.

Simply put … no you will not have to uninstall and re-install if you test with the beta. Remember however that this is a beta program - you should only participate if you are willing to deal with some of the glitches that happen from time to time in beta releases.

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thank you alanrf :slight_smile: i’v beta tested before so i tryed to download from the link in this post from VlK and it started to download and got to the part where it was downloading something over 600,000 and stoped at around 40,000 and i had to cancel then avast setup crashed and it asked me to restart so i got offline (i’m on dialup) and it wanted to send a error report but i was off line so i let avast restart my pc and ckecked the avast version and it did not change so i got back online and in comodo firewall i could see avast downloading updates and when it was done it asked to restart my pc and now avast says i have version 4.7.1024 it seems to be working ok so far :slight_smile: