As the thread title says, it’s already released. All present beta users will get (well, probably already got) this version automatically, via our automatic updates.
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Actually all users who have 36454 or later installed get the update automatically.
If you have older version, you must perform the update manually:
- Download the DMG from http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-mac, and drag&drop the app. from the DMG into /Applications.
- Finder will ask what to do, choose Replace.
- Start the app.
I use the paid Avast! Internet Security for my Windows machine so I was glad to see this become available for our Mac machines. Thanks Avast team for providing a good security program for OS X, it is appreciated.
The high CPU issues are still present in the retail build.
Is there any update on those? Have the devs responded? I’d be glad to help debug it w/ logs or other diagnostics, but it doesn’t seem like anyone’s been paying attention (to this thread or others).
It’s been reported to the Mod’s. Hopefully someone will respond but probably not till after the weekend. 
Does anybody know the release notes for 7.0 (36987) just released today, 05/25/12?
- GUI:
[li]Added manual sample sending dialog
- Connection/disconnection to/from the portal can be done without changes to the registration.
- Fixed non-functional registration on Mac OS X 10.5
- Fixed showing the welcome screen after install.
- Fixed some issues of program update.
- Fixed unfunctional uninstall when registration app is running.
- Fixed double-scan of some partitions on full system scan.
- Other minor bug fixes.
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- File system shield:[li]Fix some minor issues.[/li]
- Web Shield: [li]Fixed issues when /etc/hosts contains non-trivial records.[/li]
- Mail Shield: [li]Some IMAP related bug fixes.[/li]
- The pop-up helper app.:
[li]Reworked pop-up configuration in system pref. pane.- Fixed occasional crash on Mac OS X 10.5.
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- Fixed occasional crash on Mac OS X 10.5.
Regards,
Mity
Avast Free Antivirus For Mac running OS X 10.6.8 - No Virus Chest?
Hi,
Avast Free ver. 7.0 (37028)) found an infection. Documentation which I’ve found on the net seems to recommend moving the infected item to something called the Virus Chest.
I cannot find any reference to a Virus Chest anywhere in the application or on my computer.
When I select the infected item in Avast, the only choices appear to be the following icons:
Repair, Delete, Move, Finder, and Export.
Choosing Move shows my documents folder selected.
Should there be a Virus Chest folder somewhere on my computer? Should I just create one? If so, where should it be?
Thanks for reading this. I hope someone can help.
cheers,
jstme
I notice that a full scan is eating all memory and my OS X Lion is getting very slow. Maybe to consider to add some automatic memory cleaning after a larger file was scanned? Manuel freeing memory speeds Mac and scan up until again all mem is eaten. All others seems to work fine, like this new scanner. This might also help to avoid the slowing down which is mentioned in another post (topic) here I guess.