INTRODUCING: New pre-release build of avast [5.0.415]

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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The program update has now been officially released as 5.0.418.
Thanks to everyone who helped testing.

Hi *,

we’ll soon be releasing a new build of avast 5 Free/Pro/IS. As usual, we’re making the build available for public testing before it’s officially released.

How to get it
links removed

How to install it
Just run the setup executable (links above). You can either install it from scratch, or on top of an existing avast installation (installing over both 5.0.xxx or 4.8.yyy should be fine). A reboot will be required to complete the installation

What’s new
Most notable improvements include:

  • stability improvements in the Behavior Shield
  • an attempt to solve the compatibility issue with MBAM Pro
  • improvements in the rootkit scanner
  • solved a vulnerability in AavmKer4.sys (Windows 2000/XP only)
  • firewall: low-level packet rules are back in the Expert settings
  • new languages: Traditional Chinese, Swedish, Korean, Bulgarian, Hungarian. This makes the current number of supported languages 16

Bottom line: we’re hoping that this build will finally solve the remaining bsod/hang issues.

Thanks much
Vlk

PS. Just a while ago, we have launched the new website in Japanese and Polish. This makes the number of languages in which the new website is available 8 (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Japanese and Polish). More are coming soon.

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Thnx guys :slight_smile:

Installed it over the top, and that worked perfectly well :slight_smile: And the IE 32 virtualisation bug is fixed. Well done Peter :smiley:

Greetz, Red

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Hi VLK. I hope you remember to fix the problem in the transition from free to paid versions of Internet Security version. For some reason the firewall couldnt turn on even after clicking on the manual activation button. ::slight_smile: did not check whether it is in this version repaired.

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Pulling it down now - although I have had a trouble free installations and operation since the last beta refresh

Windows 7 64 bit

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Installed with no problems over .396

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I hope they do better than “attempt” to fix the MBAM compatibility issue. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Gibbs slap

Downloading now… I’m sure any attempt from the avast team would be far better than the best effort of mine.

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I’m not too sure about it. It’s a typical “two AV’s running at the same time” type of conflict. Windows was simply not designed to handle that.

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Hi Isn’t MBAM an anti-spyware app like SAS etc.?

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I’m downloading it now, will report back tomorrow :wink:

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no issues here with install over 396 fast and seamless

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It doesn’t matter in this case. The MBAM realtime protection works exactly the same as a typical AV.

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WOW so that’s why there’s a problem. I actually had the problem before I installed Avast!. It appeared as soon as I upgraded to the real time version. That was a week before I installed Avast! and I was using NOD32. Perhaps the MBAM folks could modify in some way.

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still no problems here even with this build! ;D

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I’ve just installed this pre-release build on the top of ver. 5.0.396 with no problems at all - the update went smoothly and quickly :).

Thank you for your work guys!

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A seamless transition - no problems

Nice one

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Installed successfully and rebooted ok.

Can’t test the manual update freeze problem yet as it never freezes when the virus definitions and programme are up-to-date.

Will have to wait until tomorrow when a new virus definition file update is available.

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Flawless! I installed over the top of .396 and I even installed the behavior shield just for kicks… ;D (x64 win 7)

About the MBAM issue, it seems alot better if IP Protection is disabled on Malwarebytes. For me, my system still feels too heavy running both Avast! and MBAM at the same time. I don’t think it’s got anything to do with Avast! though, probably any AV+another resident scanner is too much to expect top performance.

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ArtemisFOwl, could you see if the procedure MBAM developed for MSE referenced at http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=55210.msg467962#msg467962 helps?

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sure, ill gladly test it and report back. thanks