Hi, all. Please welcome the newest version of Avast AV: 21.6 (21.6.2474)
Public announcements
Useful Smart Scan notifications — We’ve fine-tuned the behavior of Smart Scan with improved initialization steps, and ensured that you receive proper notifications about scheduled scans.
Better feature shortcuts — We’ve changed the main tile navigation so Avast Antivirus features are easier to distinguish from shortcuts to other Avast products.
Bug fixes and improvements for:
The latest renderer version stopped supporting CPUs without SSE3, so we needed to add an install block and freeze users using this older pieces of HW on 21.4 version
Fixed cases of infinite loader when turning off some of core shield via Settings
Fixed support tool (collection logs and info for customer support and debugging) that was not properly grabbing AV status and subscription status in Rescue Disk, plus it now reports WSC status
FYI: Virus Chest has been renamed to Quarantine
Fixed removal of scheduled tasks
Fixed a case when some of antivirus windows opened in the background (behind other full-screen app) even if this was not desired while interacting with it
…and a lot of security improvements we can’t be more concrete about
As usual a big thanks goes to the team for yet another successful release!
How to install:
Update from your existing Avast version via Settings → Update → Update program
Plus many CPUs still have SSE2 (and earlier instruction sets) plus SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, etc. etc.
Clarification is required as technically many CPUs still have SSE2.
First CPU’s to support SSE3 (so, ones that would still run avast! no issues) were released back in 2004-2005, specifically Intel Pentium 4 using 90nm process (Prescott). This is actually far back unlike BS restrictions of Windows 11 that make 3 years old CPU’s look useless for some dumb reason. Can’t really be mad with this one as it’s pretty reasonable decision.
but i can’t get it , its still locked and it says by aysn the firewall feature only works for beta at this time not for all users, there is a contradiction between your answer and aysn, please give a correct explanation ?
Hi, Firewall is not yet enabled as a free feature with 21.6, it still needs a bit more testing. Plus roll-out, that will most probably start with the 21.7 version will be continuous and spread over several weeks - it won’t be available to all free users at the same time.
ok, well then, one more thing I suggest that anti phishing and fraud should be further improved in terms of performance and scope of detection because many fake websites are disguised very well, they look as if they are real websites.
THis UI degine is not Beautiful.previous UI degine was so fantastic.Performance should be improved lots.New UI fantastic degine should add this avast premium
I noticed new taskbar Notificaton (blue dot) since updating to 21.6.2474 (build 21.6.6446.561) earlier today.
Notifications were 4 duplicates of wifi scans listed with same time stamp.
I was not expecting any wifi scans at all, as have none scheduled nor did I manually invoke one.
What is going on?
