** INTRODUCING: New Official Avast Program Update 5.1.889 **

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi guys,

I’m glad to announce the general availability of a new avast program update, version number 5.1.889.

Compared to the previous version, the most notable improvements are:

  • solved a compatibility problem with CorelDraw X5
  • solved a compatibility problem with Acer control software
  • solved a problem inserting a license file via the installation wizard
  • solved a compatibility problem with some Dell wireless network adapter drivers
  • solved a compatibility problem with Game Guard (used by a number of games)
  • solved a compatibility problem with Sibelius
  • solved various 0xC0000005 and 0xC000007B errors (e.g. with some .NET applications)
  • issues related to upgrades from v5.0 (inactive shields, missing right-click associations, missing 64-bit boot-time scanner etc)
  • solved some possible deadlock conditions (relatively rare but possible)
  • performance related improvements
  • various UI related improvements

As usual, I’d also like to take this opportunity and thank all our beta-testers.

BTW it takes up to a few days for download.com (and other local download servers) to update their bits. If you want to download the full installer now, use the following direct links:

Free AV: http://files.avast.com/iavs5x/setup_av_free.exe
Pro AV: http://files.avast.com/iavs5x/setup_av_pro.exe
Internet Security: http://files.avast.com/iavs5x/setup_ais.exe

Thanks
Vlk

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Hi Vlk

updated via the GUI and working fine here and thanks for this nice release :).

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Downloading right now by GUI.
I’ll comeback to report.

Thanks.

Updating:
Rebooted and all OK for now.

Great work.

Edit#2:
Just a little something, something… (see attach)

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As always, working like a champ.

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Nice :slight_smile: :wink: Good job.

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“- performance related improvements”
I must say that this is actually visible compared to the previous build on my machine. Great release. Keep up the good work and thank you(avast and beta testers).

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Updated over 5.1.884, so far no problems.
Thanks for the new build! :slight_smile:

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Works very finy here and the system is now a bit faster great Job ;D

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Updated over ais 5.1.884, so far no problems (as usual).

I’m a (happy) avast antivirus free user for the last 8 years and just upgraded to ais ;D

Thanks for the great work!

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I got 2 BSOD while on .864, and 1 BSOD on .884, currently updating to .889 and hoping for something good… I don’t know if my BSODs are AVAST related but I noticed all my recent BSODs happened when it updated to .864 last 1/1/11.

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@dmist24: they were not directly related to avast (possible hw problem?), see my answer: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=69199.msg582307#msg582307

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It’s normal after upgrade at 5.1 which until you restart the pc the Mail Shield and the Web Shield are inactive? In the setup.log file I found this:

13:31:24 vrb/sys  Stopping service avast! Mail Scanner
13:31:24 min/sys  OpenSCManager
13:31:24 min/sys  OpenService
13:31:24 min/sys  ControlService
13:31:24 min/sys  QueryServiceStatus
13:31:24 vrb/sys  Service avast! Mail Scanner stopped, errcode: 0x00000000
13:31:24 vrb/sys  Service avast! Mail Scanner uninstalled
13:31:24 vrb/reg  Deleted registry: Security
13:31:24 vrb/reg  Deleted registry: Enum
13:31:24 vrb/reg  Deleted registry: SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\avast! Mail Scanner

13:31:24 vrb/sys  Stopping service avast! Web Scanner
13:31:24 min/sys  OpenSCManager
13:31:24 min/sys  OpenService
13:31:24 min/sys  ControlService
13:31:24 min/sys  QueryServiceStatus
13:32:49 vrb/sys  Service avast! Web Scanner stopped, errcode: 0x00000000
13:32:49 vrb/sys  Service avast! Web Scanner uninstalled
13:32:49 vrb/reg  Deleted registry: Security
13:32:49 vrb/reg  Deleted registry: Enum
13:32:49 vrb/reg  Deleted registry: SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\avast! Web Scanner
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just upgraded and rebooted, all went fine :wink:

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Thank you for Avast Internet Security (AIS) 5.1.899 8)

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update went fine.
btw. is this fixed? http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=68232.0 because I’ve got same BSOD with build .884

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   Working like a charm. Keep up the great work!!
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Update via GUI keeps failing for me, here is a short extract from the log:

13.01.2011	10:57:37.000	1294927057	(null)	HttpGetWinsock(http://download936.avast.com/iavs5x/prod-ais.vpx)
13.01.2011	10:57:38.000	1294927058	(null)	Used server: http://download936.avast.com/iavs5x
13.01.2011	10:57:38.000	1294927058	(null)	GetFileWithRetry: prod-ais.vpx downloaded .
13.01.2011	10:57:38.000	1294927058	(null)	GetNewerStampedFile:buf.st_size == 0 on C:\Windows\TEMP\_asw_aisI.tm~a03412\onefile
13.01.2011	10:57:38.000	1294927058	(null)	Tried to download prod-ais.vpx but failed with error 0x00000002
13.01.2011	10:57:38.000	1294927058	(null)	LoadAllDefs failed 0x00000002
13.01.2011	10:57:38.000	1294927058	(null)	FilterOutExistingFiles: 128 & 59 = 69
13.01.2011	10:57:38.000	1294927058	(null)	FilterOutExistingFiles: 128 & 59 = 69
13.01.2011	10:57:38.000	1294927058	(null)	m_bOperationDidSomething 59/128/13602564
13.01.2011	10:57:38.000	1294927058	(null)	Error:El sistema no puede encontrar el archivo especificado.
13.01.2011	10:57:38.000	1294927058	(null)	Transferred: files 2, bytes 5756, time 1263 ms
13.01.2011	10:57:38.000	1294927058	(null)	Retries: total 0, files 0, servers 2
13.01.2011	10:57:38.000	1294927058	(null)	Customer <snip>
13.01.2011	10:57:41.000	1294927061	(null)	licenseFeature = <snip>
13.01.2011	10:57:42.000	1294927062	(null)	Sending stats 'http://download936.avast.com/cgi-bin/iavs4stats.cgi': 00000000 204
13.01.2011	10:57:42.000	1294927062	(null)	NeedReboot=false
13.01.2011	10:57:42.000	1294927062	(null)	Return code: 0x00000002 [El sistema no puede encontrar el archivo especificado.]
13.01.2011	10:57:42.000	1294927062	(null)	Stopped: 13.01.2011, 10:57:42

It fails with “The system cannot find the specified file.” ???

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… happened to me on the first attempt…second attempt a few secs later worked.

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Updated sweet as a nut via the GUI and all parts working as they should.

Thank you, Avast.

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Same here attempting GUI update from 5.1.884 PR. Probably some of the servers aren’t updated yet, or are overloaded.

Edit below:

I tried several times for about an hour. Finally, I downloaded the 5.1.889 installer from http://download833.avast.com/iavs5x/setup_av_free_eng.exe and did an overinstall in a Administrator account. I now have Avast Free 5.1.889 installed, all shields are working(except Mail Shield which I’ve disabled some while ago). Did a Quick Scan, and then a Boot Scan.

Before all this, the definitions updated to 110113-0. Now with 5.1.889, I get the same “Last encountered error: The system cannot find the file specified.” when I manually check for VPS updates.

I’m wondering if some of the Avast servers are misconfigured.