we will soon be releasing a new program update of avast. And as usual, we’re making it available for public testing a few days before the official release. The version number is Edit June 30: 6.0.1198.
This is hopefully going to be a smooth service release, designed really just to fix some of the issues of the previous v6.0 builds.
Here’s the list of the most important changes:
improved compatibility with Windows Vista SP0/SP1
attempt to solve the “Windows Media Player using a red skin” problem
Firewall: improved compatibility with uTorrent
improved the sample submission process
introduced new CreditAlert feature (US customers only)
improved load time of WebRep IE plugin
improvements in the silent installer
improvements in the sandbox module
added Thai and Serbian language packs
And new in 6.0.1198:
Firewall: the long-standing uTorrent compatibility problem should now be finally resolved
improved tracking of file sources
improvements in the installer
fixes of bugs reported in the previous beta
Download links: links snipped
You can either install from scratch, or over an existing installation of avast (any version). Users of the previous pre-release build (6.0.1184) can also use the built-in program updater. (no need to download the full package from the above links).
As with the previous program update, I’ll wait for the program update tray notification to be displayed before I apply it. I hope some frequent forum users can test their tray notifications too, instead of manually applying the update using the main GUI as usual.
Basically we will be offering 2 products:
CreditAlert Free - monitors your credit report and notify via avast! if any change occur
CreditAlert Premium - monitoring + gives you a full access to your credit report + credit scores, from the 3 US credit bureaus (price is set to $9.95/month)
This product(feature) is provided with our partner company ID Watchdog.
@spg SCOTT: I agree about the process field, not present anymore in the web shield alert, this should definitely be brought back. If you deactivate the webshield and let the fileshield intercept EICAR, then the alert is just as it always was, showing which process was involved.
As to the page linked to the alert button, I don’t mind the content, i.e. promoting the safezone currently. What I find pushy though is the size of that button ;D + the info page doesn’t bring any security info at all… it’s a purely Avast promoting page. Worldwide statistics are not gonna help anyone whose system has just been attacked >>> bring some relevant malware info instead :
edit: promoting AIS through a virus alert is just bad taste … one question: does this button link to the same page when triggered from Avast “free”… as I see this text here:
You have it, so why not use it? Browse virtually with avast! SafeZone