*** INTRODUCING: New pre-release build of avast [now 5.0.460] ***

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I just now updated from 418 to 454. It’s perfect 8)

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Re: *** INTRODUCING: New pre-release build of avast [now 5.0.454] ***
« Reply #121 on: Yesterday at 02:08:32 PM »
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I sent its to vlk@avast.com

I send all file the Avast ask me and untikk now nothing come back for my questions.

I paid a license for Avast 5.0 and it doen’stwork. and what I receive of Avast,silence, what are u thing about this…

[Vlk]

Alepompa,

please start your own thread.
I had a look at your dumps. Your system is appearently infected by a kernel mode rootkit. This rootkit is taking down avast, and together with it, the whole system.
You’ll need to remove it first.

Vlk

[Vlk]

@Logos post:137

how can this happen, I’m just wondering, it’s not just with this build but with previous builds too, happens once in a while, you’re checking for updates either on the engine/database button or the program button (that actually includes the previous), and although there’s nothing to update, you’re prompted to reboot ??? …just happened a minute ago while checking if there was a new build…

The setup.log will reveal more.

@Logos post:138

minor: when you keep avast UI in the background (of the screen), and navigate through menus in another application with a window opened on top of avast window, aligned avast submenus are getting highlighted accordingly ;D … and dynamically.

Yeah, this is a long standing bug (reported/discussed even during beta testing); curiously, there’s no easy solution to it.It’s a bug in the underlying framework, which is very hard to upgrade at this moment. You’ll have to live with it…

Thanks
vlk

[system]

@ Vlk: OK I’ll send you the setup log by mail; as to the cosmetic issue, no big deal, I can indeed live with that ;D

[system]

what’s up? …guys I got a weird issue with the firewall just now: a new pop up for a new rule every time I launch IE, as well as a new pop up with the same on each new page loaded ??? firewall is currently set on auto-decide and most rules were already created on my system.

edit: solved after a reboot, I had one last firewall pop up when launching IE, and then not anymore, ie not on relaunching and not when launching new pages. Wonder what happened…

[system]

Petusalem:

It’s because ad muncher, uses it’s own web filter, and it mess with avast web shield, in order to get avast web shield working, you need to disable ad muncher, or use a proxy config for the browsers to force them to use web shield.

@DavidR post:5

Try manually setting your browser to use the web shield proxy.
For IE - broadband users: - Tutorial - Web Shield Proxy Set-up for IE
For Firefox users - Tutorial - Web Shield Proxy Set-up for Firefox

Whilst these may be for older versions of the browsers, I’m sure you should be able to find the equivalent settings.

I had the same issue with ad muncher, so i decided to remove it, and now i’m using outpost firewall pro ad blocker,and it works seamlessly with Avast 5 Free, and it should work with pro and IS.

[system]

Nice work guys!

The annoying warning “Netzwerk gefunden” (Network found) of the firewall after every system restart is gone :).

But the sorting-bug in the “application control” tab in the firewall still exists which makes the firewall very hard to use if you have more than 10 applications which connect to the internet.

I described this bug so often so I don’t think it makes sense to do this again. Either this bug is on your To Do list or it’s just not “heavy” enough even to mention.

Greetings

Timo

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@cazoza post:147

Petusalem:

It’s because ad muncher, uses it’s own web filter, and it mess with avast web shield, in order to get avast web shield working, you need to disable ad muncher, or use a proxy config for the browsers to force them to use web shield.

@DavidR post:5

Try manually setting your browser to use the web shield proxy.
For IE - broadband users: - Tutorial - Web Shield Proxy Set-up for IE
For Firefox users - Tutorial - Web Shield Proxy Set-up for Firefox

Whilst these may be for older versions of the browsers, I’m sure you should be able to find the equivalent settings.

I had the same issue with ad muncher, so i decided to remove it, and now i’m using outpost firewall pro ad blocker,and it works seamlessly with Avast 5 Free, and it should work with pro and IS.

Thanks for the info cazoza. I decided to remove avast. Too buggy for me. It’s a shame I paid for Pro version.

[system]

Regarding Admuncher working with Avast in 5.0, the solution is quite straightforward, as has been confirmed in other threads. Open Avast’s Webshield.ini file in Notepad and insert ‘OptinProcess=AdMunch.exe’ (without quote marks).

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@cazoza post:147

Petusalem:

It’s because ad muncher, uses it’s own web filter, and it mess with avast web shield, in order to get avast web shield working, you need to disable ad muncher, or use a proxy config for the browsers to force them to use web shield.
(snip)
I had the same issue with ad muncher, so i decided to remove it, and now i’m using outpost firewall pro ad blocker,and it works seamlessly with Avast 5 Free, and it should work with pro and IS.

Sorry, but this is wrong info. WebShield doesn’t check AdMuncher traffics only because AdMuncher is not in the hidden default list of HTTP applications. As long as you add AdMuncher to the configurable list in WebShield.ini manually as greenhatch wrote above, it is unanimously reported to work with WebShield.

In fact, I downloaded AdMuncher and put AdMunch.exe in WebScanner list in WebShield.ini, it now works without problems. I don’t think it took more than few minutes to do this.

Petusalem, if you still have questions, please go back to the original thread and read it and add your questions there since this is not an appropriate thread.

[system]

Hi all i am new here , my opinion about the new avast? Finally I do not see anything new in version free, perhaps we will have version 6.0 firewall? ??? ??? Pai am firewall Pc Tools firewall,dar comndo nu imi place!!Avast is the best ;D

[Lisandro]

@2Pac post:152

Hi all i am new here , my opinion about the new avast? Finally I do not see anything new in version free, perhaps we will have version 6.0 firewall? ??? ???

6.0 :
Where very far from it… we’ll have 5.1 5.2… before. Which feature are you missing?

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2Pac , salut, ca atare versiunea a 5-a a Avast-ului are Firewall doar ca el este disponibil doar in varianta Avast Internet Security , cred ca versiunea gratuita nu va avea un firewall niciodata .
Insa sunt destule Firewall-uri gratuite foarte bune , cum ar fi Comodo , care in cuplu cu Avast lucreaza perfect .

[system]

just two things:

• for the second time today, W7 action center tells me that Avast firewall is off when it’s definitely on. Stopping and restarting the fw solves the issue…temporarily
• also I got prompted to reboot after just a VPS update (100308-0 to 1)

[Lisandro]

I’m experiencing high avast service usage with this new version… :

[system]

not here ???

edit: will replace the pic with a longer snapshot…

[Vlk]

Now updated to v460 (see the original thread for details).

[Rednose]

Upgraded from version .454 to .460. Virtualisation bug is fixed now. Thnx guys

Greetz, Red,

[zenzor]

@Vlk post:158

Now updated to v460 (see the original thread for details).

Thanks for the quick fix for Poser 8, I can confirm that it’s working fine now…