NEW: Avast Beta 17.1.2286

Lord_Ami · 2017-02-07T12:53:51.000Z

tubabuyukustun post:15:

hi friends hope that final will be soon

Already released:
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=196445.0

A.User · 2017-02-07T13:08:01.000Z

So this release candidate has lived for… 4-5 hours? Not good. I thought that release candidate was once you fix all known issues with betas and you release a RC which is supposed to be all known good just in case something shows in the last seconds. Through this whole campaign it felt like marketing was above engineers and developers when in fact Marketing are nothing without them.

DavidR · 2017-02-07T13:15:18.000Z

user00 post:4:

How can you be OK with releasing this while the firewall blocks OpenVPN based connections ?

This is still a beta build.

Asyn · 2017-02-07T13:16:59.000Z

DavidR post:22:

user00 post:4:

How can you be OK with releasing this while the firewall blocks OpenVPN based connections ?

This is still a beta build.

Hi Dave, not anymore. It has been released today.

DavidR · 2017-02-07T13:24:48.000Z

Asyn post:23:

DavidR post:22:

user00 post:4:

How can you be OK with releasing this while the firewall blocks OpenVPN based connections ?

This is still a beta build.

Hi Dave, not anymore. It has been released today.

Pathetic, it appears that there are still issues outstanding from earlier beta versions.

Prepare for the storm, I hope there will be a lot more avast presence in the forums.

EDIT: removed image.

Asyn · 2017-02-07T13:30:47.000Z

DavidR post:24:

Pathetic, it appears that there are still issues outstanding from earlier beta versions.

According to the devs, they will get fixed with uUpdates during this week. Let’s see.

irongod · 2017-02-07T14:37:00.000Z

So this release candidate has lived for... 4-5 hours? Not good. I thought that release candidate was once you fix all known issues with betas and you release a RC which is supposed to be all known good just in case something shows in the last seconds. [b]Through this whole campaign it felt like marketing was above engineers and developers when in fact Marketing are nothing without them[/b].

:-[ hope for the best, but I have this feeling since V9 came out… in my opinion, it feels like they somehow lost direction since then!

A.User · 2017-02-07T17:12:53.000Z

Clicking on “Details” in the notifications still starts a new scan if you have clicked on Done in the results.

DavidR · 2017-02-07T17:41:02.000Z

Clicking on "Details" in the notifications still starts a new scan if you have clicked on Done in the results.

That simply isn’t happening on my installation, Clicking Done doesn’t restart the Smart Scan, all it does is take you back to the UI Home Screen, Status tab. This shows the Run Smart Scan button, but it isn’t starting a scan for me.

A.User · 2017-02-07T17:42:16.000Z

DavidR post:28:

Clicking on "Details" in the notifications still starts a new scan if you have clicked on Done in the results.

That simply isn’t happening on my installation, Clicking Done doesn’t restart the Smart Scan, all it does is take you back to the UI Home Screen, Status tab. This shows the Run Smart Scan button, but it isn’t starting a scan for me.

Once you click Done and then open the notifications and click on “Details” it will start a new scan instead of showing the results of the last one.

DavidR · 2017-02-07T18:14:25.000Z

[quote="DavidR post:28, topic:733051"]
Clicking on "Details" in the notifications still starts a new scan if you have clicked on Done in the results.

That simply isn’t happening on my installation, Clicking Done doesn’t restart the Smart Scan, all it does is take you back to the UI Home Screen, Status tab. This shows the Run Smart Scan button, but it isn’t starting a scan for me.
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Once you click Done and then open the notifications and click on “Details” it will start a new scan instead of showing the results of the last one.

I chose many permutations and none kicked off the smart scan again.

But I have managed to replicate it this time as it showed Two instances of the smart scan had run and ‘2’ in the Bell notifications. Previously I only had ‘1’ in the Bell notifications, then clicking Details in one of them Kicked of the smart scan, now I have ‘3’ in the Bell notifications.

Clicking done now shows 3 smart scans have run, it now looks like the escalation of the Notifications being displayed described by RejZoR in earlier betas, so it looks like that is back with a vengeance. Now I only have ‘1’ in the Bell notifications but 4 entries for the smart scan.

I draw a line at clicking on details again - so I clicked Dismiss all to get out of this escalation of the Bell notifications saga.

A.User · 2017-02-07T18:22:22.000Z

You run a scan. You go to the notifications. You click on “Details” and the normal “Done” button shows. You click the “Done” button and then open notifications, the entry is still there and clicking on “Details” again doesn’t show the report but starts a new scan. It can be improved by showing the details for the on demand scan for this scan.

A.User · 2017-02-08T20:12:00.000Z

It will be good to add a settings and schedule button to the smart scan right from the tile where it is started as in other scans and to remove the option to schedule boot scan in the settings. What happens when i schedule a boot time scan to run recurrently in some time? My PC will restart as i work on it to do the boot time scan? And why you would run a boot time scan recurrently? Why do you release a version which is not ready i don’t know.

mrformat · 2017-02-17T19:45:41.000Z

What happened to the “boot time scan” settings? There used to be the option to set the “Boot time scan parameters” and delete “When a threat is found, and apply the following action”, as well as set the Heuristics sensitivity and other settings, but now with the new version I don’t see ANY options for the scan? Where did these settings go? I hope Avast did NOT remove them. Please let me know how to find these settings (if they’re still there).

petr.chytil post:1:

Hi all testers,

thank you for your feedback from the last beta build! We fixed a few bugs and this is the last beta refresh before the final release. It is the release candidate.

What’s new:

Fixed boot time scan UI flow

Fixed Rescue disk issues on Windows 8 and higher

Component settings screen changed to fit low resolution displays

Fixes of the notification center (more are comming later via UI update channel)

Fixes in translations

Download links:

https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=179943.0

Known issues:

Avast account is turned off. Will be enabled later via UI update channel

Few texts are missing its translations

A.User · 2017-02-17T22:55:58.000Z

mrformat post:33:

What happened to the “boot time scan” settings? There used to be the option to set the “Boot time scan parameters” and delete “When a threat is found, and apply the following action”, as well as set the Heuristics sensitivity and other settings, but now with the new version I don’t see ANY options for the scan? Where did these settings go? I hope Avast did NOT remove them. Please let me know how to find these settings (if they’re still there).

Protection → Antivirus → Other Scans → Cog wheel.

bob3160 · 2017-02-19T14:11:55.000Z

http://screencast-o-matic.com/screenshots/u/Lh/1487513398169-15870.png

NON · 2017-02-19T15:08:01.000Z

Boot-time scan settings is somehow broken though… it should be special settings window, not ordinary one.

Asyn · 2017-02-19T15:32:29.000Z

Guys, I’d suggest to continue here: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=197296.0

bob3160 · 2017-02-19T15:43:40.000Z

Asyn post:37:

Guys, I’d suggest to continue here: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=197296.0

Excellent suggestion.

mrformat · 2017-02-25T08:24:44.000Z

Protection -> Antivirus -> Other Scans -> Cog wheel. [/quote] Thank you so much! :) It's a bit confusing though, as it takes you to the settings screen that looks exactly as the custom scan screen. As long as it "deletes" whatever files may be infected in Boot time scan ...I'm happy.

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