New Beta version 17.6.2306

Consumer Products Public Beta Avast Antivirus Beta
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Hi everyone,

new beta version 17.6.2306 is released.

What’s new/fixed:

  • New dialogs for malware detections
  • Offline installation of Avast works without network
  • Loading of some websites no longer blocked by Web Shield

Known issues:

  • Behavior shield detection dialog not updated

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

Enjoy this beta!
We are looking forward to your feedback.

AVAST Team

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Probably just a glitch, but I had to close the GUI manually after the restart.

Edit: Typo.

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For the interested ones, here’s a screenshot…

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I frankly don’t like popups that are displayed in the middle of the screen, potentially being mistakenly clicked and that stay there in your face. Whole purpose of antiviruses is to protect you without interruption. It’s why I loved popups till now, appearing above taskbar, small popup just to let me know why EXE I just downloade is not accessible/existing anymore. I loved old avast! 4.x detection popup line appearing over taskbar for each file and if there were 15 detections, they’d just nicely stack. In yellow and red to show something bad happened, but you’re fine. I most certainly don’t like it how AVG shows popups and I certainly don’t like the direction where avast! popups are now heading. What was wrong with existing method? We asked for improvements that never happened and with them it would be perfect. Now it’s all gone for these massive popups across entire freaking screen.

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Snap +1
If I, the user move a dialogue/alert window/popup to the edge of my screen, I expect it to stay there the next time it pops up. This has been a convention with MS windows for years

As RejZoR mentions, it is effectively stealing focus making any active button on that window live and likely to clicked accidentally, we all aren’t touch typists, but pecking away at the keyboard. The toaster popup was by far the the least intrusive (but noticeable) to the user.

Lets not lose sight of the fact that the the malware, etc. has already been stopped so the in your face urgency of the popup is I believe over the top, excuse the pun.

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+2

I agree with Boris and David,

When Avast showed us the new detection dialog, we were already afraid that this would happen.

Greetz, Red.

( Attached a screenshot from a different detection dialog, shown to us by Avast )

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I agree with RejZoR and David.

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thanks for Update
lets try out
Still testing…
well tell u if i found any bug

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Testing of new pop up
finding some bugs
it occurs in between of screen
it should in side
and also having DPI Problems
Pop up did’t shows correctly

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Thanks for the new beta :slight_smile:

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Found two bugs…

  1. The dialog can only be closed manually (popup settings don’t work).
  2. “Show last popup” in system tray doesn’t work anymore.
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The new Web Shield page injection is also going to be annoying. Imagine you’re on a webpage and just some content on it is malicious (or FP). With old popup, you’d just get link blocked and popup displayed on desktop, separately. Now, this “popup” inside browser will take over entire webpage. Now, if it’s whole webpage that’s blocked, fine, no harm, but if it’s scenario as I’ve mentioned, it’s annoying to lose access to whole webpage because you block just one link on it, but you also have to show a popup across whole page to the user…

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Gottcha I agree with these bugs

    bugs

But I found That new dialog box is not appear correctly

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Was informed that these are no bugs, but expected behavior in the new version.

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I really do hate this change for changes sake, this is just another pain in the rear with an in your face popup requiring manual intervention.

I suppose having effectively abandoned the popup settings, the ‘show last popup’ is redundant as the popup is in your face forever, plenty of time to go have your lunch, come back and read it.

It used to be that avast was the most configurable AV around, now I’m not so sure.

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My Little Windows 7 Sp1 Intel Atom PC, can’t even hardly rez the standard ui, not sure how it will do with 17.6 and Full Screen protection dialogs, gonna have to get it on there to see in a few minutes

I know my big Windows 10 8 Core Desktop can probably, but also don’t like that, as why a full screen, why can’t it stick to taskbar notification like it has been for years? Why change something for the sake of change?

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Yes Dave, I’m no fan of this new sticky dialog approach either.

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Out of interest, does that include XP & Vista…??

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Agree.
I like This pop up in side
also pop up should need automatically closed
like in older version

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Disappointing… >:(