New beta version – build 26.9.11140
Hello everyone,
there is a new beta version ready - build 26.9.11140.
Release notes
What is New
AI Protection
Blocked Agent Activity Log: Actions blocked from AI coding tools and other agents now appear in your security history. You can review what was stopped and when.
AI Troubleshooter: The AI Troubleshooter connects through a single, stable channel to the AI Assistant. Tool actions show live progress while they run.
Ask Before Blocking: Agentic Safe Zone can show a dialog before blocking an action. You choose allow or deny instead of an automatic block every time.
Temporary Allow Rules: Agentic Safe Zone can grant short-lived access for a sequence of related file actions without creating a permanent rule.
AI Chat Link Scanning: Links inside AI chat sites such as ChatGPT and Claude are checked for threats as part of web protection.
Scam & Deepfake Protection
Faster Video Scam Checks: Videos you watch online are checked against a cloud database first. Known scams are flagged without waiting for a full on-device scan.
Video Ad Details: Scam checks on web videos now use ad title, headline, and advertiser link when available for more accurate results.
Hardware-Accelerated Scanning: Deepfake and media scanning can run on your CPU, GPU, or NPU. The app picks the best option on your PC.
Protection
Browser Injection Detection: Protection against tools that inject code into Chrome and steal saved data.
Dangerous Driver Blocking: A known driver used to disable security software is now blocked from loading.
Kernel Attack Hardening: Termination attempts against protected processes from kernel-mode code are now evaluated and can be blocked.
Self-Defense Hardening: Only trusted apps can access key self-defense interfaces. Device access checks no longer treat untrusted callers as trusted when self-defense is turned off.
Sandbox Stealth: Auto-sandboxed apps no longer expose sandbox status through missing system privileges.
WebSocket Message Scanning: Web protection handles long messages sent over WebSocket connections more reliably.
Subscription & Licensing
Subscription Details: Your subscription screen now shows license type and next billing date more clearly.
Privacy & Identity
Dark Web Alerts: New desktop alerts when breached personal data is found. Wording updated across supported languages.
Privacy Control Alerts: Privacy Control now sends desktop alerts for scan results and monitoring changes.
Faster Privacy Data: Privacy Control caches member and scan summary data locally instead of fetching it on every open.
Brand-Accurate Breach Scans: Dark web monitoring reports your product brand correctly to the breach-scan service.
Cleanup & Performance
AI Tool Cleanup Research: Cleanup rules are being expanded for local data left by AI tools such as Ollama, LM Studio, and Gemini CLI.
Own-Product Detection: Program Deactivator recognizes Avast, AVG, Avira, Norton, and CCleaner apps by verified signature so they are never deactivated by mistake.
Antigravity Cleanup: Cleanup rules added for Google Antigravity IDE and CLI tools, including saved credentials where safe to remove.
App & Interface
Smart Scan Bank Prompt: Smart Scan invites you to link a bank account only when relevant, with rules so the prompt does not repeat unnecessarily.
Scheduled Scan Timing: Scheduled Smart Scans start right away again. The previous 30-second countdown before scan start was removed.
Local Network Permission: Embedded web views now ask before allowing sites to reach devices on your local network.
Accessibility: CCleaner loading spinner and skip-to-content link work better with screen readers.
Firewall
Cleaner Network Stats: Home network scan counters no longer count traffic from the security app itself.
What Was Fixed
Protection
Upgrade Installer Blocked: Product upgrade and reinstall no longer triggers a false alarm that stops the installer.
Bank Mode Cookie Gap: Cookies copied in Bank Mode are now covered by browser shield protection.
Anti-Exploit Definition Refresh: Anti-Exploit picks up new virus definitions after a definition update without a full restart.
TLS Site Whitelist: Trusted sites are recognized again during encrypted connection setup.
Port Scan Alerts: Incoming port scan alerts fire more consistently on your home network.
Firewall Profile When Off: Turning the firewall off no longer changes your Windows network profile.
Memory Safety Fixes: Multiple memory and security issues fixed in core protection components.
Intel PT Compatibility: Fixed a crash when Intel Processor Trace was active on supported CPUs.
Debug Register Handling: Breakpoint status is reported correctly when anti-rootkit monitoring remaps debug registers.
Scam & Deepfake Protection
Battery Saver Pause: Automatic video scam scanning pauses when Windows Energy Saver is on, even on AC power.
Cleanup & Performance
SQLite Database Cleaning: Cleanup handles SQLite databases that use write-ahead logging correctly.
Right-Click Clean Selection: Right-click Clean in Custom Clean now respects which items you selected.
Cleanup Crashes: Fixed several crashes during cleanup, data shredding, and cookie removal.
Startup Entry Fix (32-bit): Enabling or disabling startup entries works from 32-bit apps on 64-bit Windows.
Wrong App Labels: Performance Optimizer no longer mislabels apps such as WSL as unrelated Microsoft services.
Privacy & Identity
Chrome Password Scan: Password scan finds weak and reused passwords in Chrome again.
Extension Detection Speed: AntiTrack extension is detected in seconds instead of several minutes.
Uninstall Data Cleanup: Tracker statistics are removed when you uninstall AntiTrack alone.
Subscription & Licensing
Uninstall Log Noise: Licensing registration errors no longer appear in logs after uninstall or clear data.
App & Interface
Window Size: Embedded web windows no longer shrink to zero size when no dimensions are provided.
Smart Scan Crash: Fixed crashes during Smart Scan and in the main app interface.
Legacy App Links: Marketing links that use the older app URL scheme open the app again after modularity install.
Renderer Fallback: App picks a working web renderer when the configured one is missing or invalid.
Support Tool Language: Changing language in the Support Tool no longer crashes or shows an access error.
Allow When Save Fails: If you allow an agentic action permanently but the rule cannot be saved, access is granted for this session instead of being denied.
Installer & Updates
Uninstall Failure: Uninstall and clear data no longer fail with an empty-path error on some systems.
Clock Skew Updates: Automatic updates no longer run on PCs whose system clock is set far in the future when updates are deferred.
Mail Shield Certificates: Mail Shield accepts valid self-signed certificates again.
Download Cancel: Cancelling a download stops promptly instead of waiting on a slow network read.
Software Updater
Windows Updates List: Available Windows updates appear again when that option is turned on in Software Updater.
Known Issues
Protection
Scan Privilege Restriction: [Critical] A security restriction on privileged scan operations is still being verified.
Unexpected Restart: [Critical] A rare system crash can occur in a core protection component.
Protected File Bypass: [Critical] A file-protection check can be bypassed in specific circumstances. Fix is under verification.
Firewall
Home Network Warning: Home Network Security scan may show a network attack warning during testing.
Alert Count Mismatch: Alert counts may differ between the app notification, dashboard, and web portal.
App & Interface
Browser Component Crash: A crash can occur in the embedded browser component during network lookups.
Web Protection
UDP Packet Leak: Empty UDP packets may leak memory in the web shield filter under verification.
Duplicate Notifications: Some notifications may register twice and trigger duplicate cache updates.
Download links:
AVG AntiVirus Free
AVG Internet Security
AVG Clear
Enjoy this beta!
We are looking forward to your feedback.
AVG Team