New Beta version 17.8.2317

jan.svoboda · 2017-11-03T11:50:15.000Z

Hi everyone,

new beta version 17.8.2317 (build 17.8.3701.0) is released.

New Features

There are no new features in Avast product in this beta version.

Fixed Bugs

Firewall component status reporting
Real Site (Secure DNS) component crashing
Issue related to in-product messaging causing the service to consume abnormal CPU resources
Service crashing when license file is not present
Update execution from Windows Security Center when product is outdated
Restoring of malware from the virus Chest detected by Behavioral Shield when removal required computer restart
Displaying toaster for Smart Scan when it is executed and User Interface is closed
User Interface crashing when all options in Smart Scan were disabled
Accepting special characters (such as <, >, etc.) in displaying toasters (such as Firewall - new network detection)
Behavioral Shield does not display detection dialog when any of the automatic modes is enabled
Restore dialog in Chest is correctly in CEF now
User Interface crashing when Firewall button was used in displayed Firewall toaster
Issue with creating Rescue USB disc on some (usually older ones) types of USB flash drives
Scheduled daily scan is now always run on time

Known Issues

Scan for performance issues (in SmartScan or Performance → Cleanup) did not find any issue and got stuck in scanning progress
Note: This issue was just partially fixed. However, still happenning and under further investigation at the moment.
UI freeze during sample restore from Virus Chest

Suggested areas of testing

We would like to ask you for deeper testing mainly in these areas:

Restoring of samples from Virus Chest
Scan settings and applying of these settings for different scans
Smart scan and performance scan behavior

We are aware of suspicious behavior in mentioned areas and we would like to get your feedback and bug reports regarding these areas. It is important for us to obtain more results from different scenarios, environments, OS’s, and so on.

Thank you very much.

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

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

AVAST Team.

bob3160 · 2017-11-03T12:12:52.000Z

http://screencast-o-matic.com/screenshots/u/Lh/1509710963892-66622.png

The lock on the Webcam Shield, indicating a paid product, was missing right after the update.
It appeared after I selected it and received the message that it was a paid option and did I want to upgrade.

Asyn · 2017-11-04T03:24:10.000Z

Thanks Jan, testing…

NON · 2017-11-04T08:47:06.000Z

I just feel there might be new beta and viola, it is there ;D

Thanks for new beta

system · 2017-11-04T14:05:11.000Z

Hello,
can you reintegrate the update sound of the virus base please?

Asyn · 2017-11-04T15:05:57.000Z

corentin8 post:5:

Hello,
can you reintegrate the update sound of the virus base please?

Probably not, this is long gone…

Asyn · 2017-11-04T16:07:44.000Z

Regarding the chest, same as reported in a prior beta.
→ https://forum.avast.com/index.php?msg=1426092

Asyn · 2017-11-04T16:10:01.000Z

Detection via web shield produces multiple/countless pop-ups.

DavidR · 2017-11-04T17:02:33.000Z

Asyn post:8:

Detection via web shield produces multiple/countless pop-ups.

My word, I would have expected this to have been caught as QA and or Alpha testing.

Patrick2 · 2017-11-04T17:46:02.000Z

Thankfully my Windows 7 Test Machine too slow to display too many of the Webshield alerts lol, but did display 2 on that test page lol. Would test on faster Windows 10 Desktop, but prefer testing on less used PC in case of any major issues, debating what to do with my old AMD FX system as well, possibly might convert that to secondary Windows 10 System

TheLightgg · 2017-11-04T20:54:43.000Z

Have you had any memory leak issues with this release? Avast used 2 GB of RAM and used 25% of my CPU even when disabled.

I will try to reproduce the problem.

https://i.imgur.com/LHwg1w5.png

Asyn · 2017-11-04T21:17:17.000Z

TheLightgg post:11:

Have you had any memory leak issues with this release? Avast used 2 GB of RAM and used 25% of my CPU even when disabled.

Nope, no such issues here.

TheLightgg · 2017-11-04T22:55:08.000Z

How do I recover a quarantined file? … I only have the option “delete” and “lower level” …

I used “lower level” but the file could not be recovered …

Pondus · 2017-11-04T23:00:14.000Z

Try right click tray icon to access chest … do you see the option now?

TheLightgg · 2017-11-04T23:14:36.000Z

Pondus post:14:

Try right click tray icon to access chest … do you see the option now?

I have the french version of the antivirus with two options on the file → DELETE and RESTORE…
I made a file restore but it deleted me … The file is no longer in the quarantine area.

The French translation is bad … In English it is mentioned “restore” but in the French version it is written “niveau inférieur (lower level in english)” any sense. Restore in french it’s “Restaurer” …
Same error in the documentation avast …

https://support.avast.com/en-us/article/21/

https://i.imgur.com/BAsjnm2.png

https://support.avast.com/fr-fr/article/21/

https://i.imgur.com/EUBYjmo.png

“Restaurer” and no “niveau inférieur (lower version)”…

https://i.imgur.com/KTxh4YB.png

NON · 2017-11-05T03:05:53.000Z

Asyn post:8:

Detection via web shield produces multiple/countless pop-ups.

Not for me ???

Asyn · 2017-11-05T07:42:00.000Z

NON post:16:

Asyn post:8:

Detection via web shield produces multiple/countless pop-ups.

Not for me ???

Still happens here. Also multiple entries in the notification center.

TheLightgg · 2017-11-05T08:56:01.000Z

After installing a program, Avast takes the initiative to scan all the files that are on my different disks …

Avast then uses 25% of my CPU (i5 3570k) and it this lasts very very long …
I did not have this problem with the .2314 version (release version) …

Can I turn off AVAST’s scan of all my disks to see if the problem continues ?

Another problem is that Avast does not purge its data in RAM. After a scan it takes more RAM, it’s normal but do not purge after its operations …
I had this problem once already described on the previous page or Avasr occupied 2 GB of ram …

https://i.imgur.com/XCdpWgt.png

DavidR · 2017-11-05T10:29:20.000Z

TheLightgg post:18:

Another problem is that Avast does not purge its data in RAM. After a scan it takes more RAM, it's normal but do not purge after its operations ... I had this problem once already described on the previous page or Avasr occupied 2 GB of ram ...

Though that figure would seem excessive, though if it is scanning all your drives as you say (why I don’t know, that isn’t normal) it would be using a lot of RAM as that is faster. It should however drop back down when concluded.

How much RAM have you got ?

I was under the belief that your OS controls RAM usage, there is little point in having RAM if you aren’t going to use it. If another program needs RAM then it will push/release some out to the pagefile on the hard disk. If that information (RAM) is required it needs to be loaded back into RAM, this swapping back and forwards to the pagefile puts an additional load on your processor and hard disk, this can also effect performance.

TheLightgg · 2017-11-05T11:33:16.000Z

I have 8 Gb of ram and I have 7 paritions system. Actually the use of RAM by AVAST has diminished by itself, you are right but after a long time…

But I do not understand the interest of scanning disks (randomly?) after any program installation … Avast does not scan the newly created directory of the new program but scans all over the disk. I can see the input / output paths that avast reads with a program …

And its excessive use of CPU take time, long time …

The Operating System controls the management of the ram but the program (in language C for example) can indicate to destroy objects in memory formerly created and not used.
Optimizing the memory management of a process in memory is already done during development by programmers.

And I’m not saying that Avast’s development team did a bad job, they are very competent ! I explained a clarification on “I was under the belief that your OS controls RAM usage”.

Thank you for your explication ^^

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