I smell a new Beta coming this week …
Greetz, Red.
Hopefully it will have a solution of the cascade of issues in 2223 through 2225 win XP even SP3 with system lockups whist browsing, using MS Excel, chkdsk, etc. etc.
@Rednose: How did you get to know? 
Must have something to do with his Rednose, inquisitive, asking questions and contacts.
@Steven Winderlich :
The info is from one of the Senior Developers I have met and know personally
Greetz, Red.
Avast! should add a ad blocker in new beta.
There is a lot of good alternatives around. Even IE11 has it built in in some level, so personally I don’t think it is a must.
But MS Edge has no ad blocker/Banner blocker.So i think it is a basic need.
Avast! HIPS need more setting.
I have been told by Avast Support that the next major update is expected in a couple of months. I submitted a ticket after a existing bug that I found in the previous few version of avast (still exist in the current release) and hopefully my discovered bug may get fixed? This discovered bug is a tricky and strange one and it has to do with avast account sign in via Avast GUI and idavast.com showing incorrect installed features .
Lol guys,
I never said what kind of Beta it will be.
I only said a new Beta, so maybe that new also relates to something new :
Greetz, Red.
I read somewhere that there will be a 4th Release with the new SafeZone which didnt make it into Release 3
-1
avast has enough attached bloat, not to mention there are more ad-blocker add-ons than you can shake a stick at out there already.
-1 No need for Avast to add a ad blocker. Download and install Ad Blocker Plus. Been using it for years and years. An excellent program for use.
Concerning Ad-Blocker: This is the answer from my mail-provider since a couple of days, trying to login in my account.
HDW
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+1 I have windows 7 and i also have problems with NG / secure virtual machines, it blocks access to chkdsk.
To get around this I am forced to disable, NG / secure virtual machines.
Concerning my W7 machines, I had problems, too. So I did the same like Yautja.