first of all let me wish you all the best in the 2021 year and please join me to welcome the very first build of this year ready for beta testing - 21.1.2443 (build 21.1.5889).
What is new
Multi-detection fix: If you stumbled upon more detections at once, we wouldn’t show each one in separate alert window anymore. Alert dialogs will be grouped into one, so there is no pop-up overload. Items are grouped by shield. (This applies to auto-mode, in Ask mode, we still show it one by one)
New categories and description: Our detections are now grouped in various categories of threats and each alert dialog contains a short description of corresponding category (you can find this in Details section). This will also enable us to continuously turn on PUP (potentially unwanted programs) detections ON by default for our users.
AlertID: We have placed a small numeric identifier in the footer of the detection dialog, so we can easily search the particular detection in our database and identify it based on the screenshot alone. We are often presented with snapshots from our users but up until now these screens didn’t contain sufficient information.
What was fixed
not correct information in cyber capture detection dialog
detections by identity protection on drivers with custom label
missing focus (on top visibility) for identity protection dialogs
internet connection satus in firewall details was not always properly displayed
shell extension (scan in explorer) does not scan all files the link (.lnk) files are pointing to
detection dialogs and toasters when higher DPI (dots per inch) is used (screen resolution settings)
incorrect license/subscription details/update shown when there is a change
Known issues
possible BSOD (blue screen of death) due to problems in identity protection driver (internally catched just once on one machine during a month, will fix it in next BETA)
Edit: Didn’t get a Splash Screen (Got it) after Reboot on one machine… but did on the second. ???
Splash Screen came up after 2nd Reboot on first machine
Running good
Well since Asyn is German, using the that is hardly likely.
Plus all of the important new bits, which Asyn has highlighted, are actually in English, presumably they have yet to be translated As are some other parts of the UI.
Whilst he could add English to the Avast languages of course you too could add a language
Whilst other elements are in German the Avast UI placement is the same, so it isn’t going to be rocket science to find/see where these new elements are.
I’ve done some extensive testing and as i have already reported in slack, compatibility with the jaws screen reader is broken, however, no other issues in this beta so far.
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