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Why do people care so much about the interface? I have my avast configures so it would not bother me as much as possible. Shouldn’t that be the purpose of such a program, to protect you but not interfere with your work, a silent guardian, a watchful protector(The Dark Knight anybody?). Spending too much time in the program’s interface usually means something is not right. Why would you care how it looks since you shouldn’t be looking at it in the first place?(At least not for long periods of time). As long as it’s easy to find the settings, component or whatever you need it shouldn’t be such a big deal.
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If I wasn’t helping out on the forums, then my forays into the UI (doing screenshots) would be few and far between. I don’t particularly like the Tiled home page and I don’t like the white colour in the free version (hurts my eyes), but that pales (excuse pun) into insignificance against the protection provided.
I have always been a function over form advocate and in my time I have had some pretty awful GUIs (not I might say from avast), my MailWasher anti-spam and Outpost Firewall Pro (still using 7,5 version) have been showered in a bucket load of bland. But the time spent there Vs the function/protection given is far outweighs the bland interface.
Except for rare occasions, the UI is hardly ever seen.
The notifications to let you know about updates or viruses blocked etc,
are what most of us see quite often.
If someone complained about the looks of these notices, it’s understandable.
User Interface, who really cares, it’s hardly ever looked at except in screenshots or,
when you first install avast!. 
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Yes I do like v8 BUT only after overcoming difficulties with installing v8. With Windows XP at least, I have found that it is necessary to thoroughly clean out v7. Doing an uninstall is insufficient. It was necessary to run aswclear.exe in safe mode to banish v7 from the system. Having done that, v8 runs like a dream.
The UI is a very decent job considering the constraints of the Metro interface. It is easy to navigate and clear to read. It is like day is to night when compared with AVG’s UI effort.
If you run aswclear.exe , you’ll be instructed to run the program in safe mode and. selecting that option,
Will reboot your system into safe mode and start the program for you. After the program completes, you’ll again be
asked to reboot back into regular mode. All automatic an easy as pie.
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Have really appreciated Avast! since I installed it over 3 years ago. Loved the idea that Email scan no longer needed settings in Avast! to allow SSL connections. I followed the instructions and got rid of the settings in Avast! Now Avast doesn’t let any SSL POP3 email in at all. (I checked this by turning off SSL scan setting in Email section. Only then will my client collect messages.) Very disappointed. Have to find new anti-virus software now.
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I posted a thread on another sub-forum. Rather than reiterate, i’ll just post a URL for those interested : http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=117935.0
TL;DR, not especially happy with avast! 8 at present…
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I am running Windows 7 64 on an I5 processor with 16gig of RAM and an SSD drive. My machine used to run like stink, now I am getting not responding when opening up windows. This is simple not Avast like. One of the poll choices indicates a desire to get a link to Avast 7, do you have that link?
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http://www.oldapps.com/avast_antivirus.php
Hi,
and where can we found AIS V7 ?
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Hi, how can I speed up the welcome screen? Because with avast I wait 17 sec to see my desktop, without avast I only wait for about 5 sec. Thx
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I don’t understand how, with the avalanche of people who cannot get Avast 8 up and running successfully, more than 50% of those voting think it’s good.
I’m in the business of repairing non-working PCs. I installed v8 in response to the first pop-up suggesting I should do so. It cost me 3-4 hours in wasted time.
As I’ve said elsewhere here I was very happy with Avast 7 and have it running on dozens of computers that I maintain. Now I’ve felt obliged to inform the owners of those computers that in no circumstances should they upgrade to v8 as it will prove very costly. As a few days have now passed since my original comments I was hoping to find that a definite solution has been found to the problems but it appears not.
I’m asking myself how much time I should allow to go by before telling them that a different anti virus program needs to be installed on their computers. The present impasse is not encouraging. It appears to me that, possibly as a result of “the crisis” the publishers of Avast have tried to be too clever and gone down the same road as Microsoft and Adobe, offering bloat-ware with many unwanted features and little pre-launch testing. That tactic can never have a positive outcome.
If anyone from Avast is reading this let me say that it would be nice if we could be given some factual information as to what the problem is and the time-scale envisaged for correcting it. Sadly I feel that the continued absence of such information can only lead to mass emigration to another anti-virus program.
For the moment I live in hope as Avast v7 was (is) VERY good.
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As I stated, which you apparently missed, “chrome automatically installed without my consent, chrome crashed, and there were certificate errors with my email client”
As well I stated that I don’t have the time to elaborate in the other problems, but I do have a minute to correct a senior forum member that can’t take the time to properly research before his/her posts.
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Hi all!
Be careful with the Avast 8! It has injured my PC stronger as a virus!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The following has happend.
I successfully worked all the day yesterday. At evening I run Avast, it worked 3,5 hours and determined a virus. Then it asked to restart PC and “clearned” PC about 6 hours again, with a blue screen. When I came to my work finally back, I found many my settings to be lost!!!
Many programs were deleted, namelly ABBY Lingvo, TotallCommander, FlowVision, Word, MATLAB2012a!!! (but MATLAB2006 remained). Besides, I lost all my post in the MS OutlookExpress!! My settings for Outlook and Skype were lost as well so that I need to recall all their passwords now…
The Avast Team, who is to recower my profits?
What was the virus it detected ?
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I love the new Avast, but I’d prefer to see a darker GUI. Thanks for the hardwork!
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I hate 8, its ugly and I cannot find my beloved Lancashire or Aussie accents, just the frigging pirate, where are my voice options, I cannot find them, and I am about to delete Avast and go with something else. UGLY UGLY UGLY
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OK I haven’t actually installed V8 and this is my reasons:
- The Home page is just like window v8. Although many people like such simple graphic layout it is non Accessible for those of us that have a disability. Blind/Legally Blind; Learning Disabilities and even those having seizures of some sort. Being it’s non accessible we are not able to use such programme. Yes some individuals a colour could cause such seizures. It’s just like going into a store that uses flashing blue light. Big issues.
And yes I read where after getting passed the home page it’s not laid out that way. However that’s the issue if one cannot see graphic layout. Not sure if there is a way to bypass such as I will not download this version.
Suggestion would be to have many things set for text format as well as graphic so programme covers both worlds. As you are missing so many individuals over 5,000 people if not more, that would have to look elsewhere and most likely get a lesser / inferior programme for security.
- Many programmes are becoming bloatware having all additional things put into their programme. Yes companies are competing with each other and that’s usually why such is added. However there are many individuals that likes to have certain programmes that they have used for years or do things more on a manual skill without having something else remind them or just update. Not to mention that they don’t have big harddrive space, ram etc. that would take care of such bloatware.
Now from what I have read it does appear that one could change such settings but I never like programmes to become bloated with added stuff in which I have to go into and turn them off.
- This of course started back in the early version of 7. However it wasn’t too majour being that the settings stayed the same way. Nevertheless this is another suggestion when going into settings and trying to navigate on the left panel. Why not put in a scroll button like the ones that’s in the right panels. I don’t know about codes but I figure if it’s in there for the right side one should be able to work out the codes so it could be in on the left side. Reason for this is there are many of us that has to have our computer settings adjusted for our needs which makes things huge on our screen. Because of this part of the setting windows are cut off. Without this scroll button one cannot see the rest nor can one click either the OK button or the Cancel button.
These are just some meaningful suggestions to work with people with disabilities as well. Not to make programmes so Non Accessible that we got to look for the lessor qualified programmes.
Oh and I have had avast since version 4. Although it wasn’t the greatest looking but at least it was accessible even version 7 was alright although the protection status window was more graphic and readers do not read such things. And some of the setting windows were off the monitor’s window.
Just some feedback and thanks for listening. Hope this feedback helps.
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As a computer professional I always recomended AVAST to everybody as something light and safe.
Today I don’t know. I mean come on it is an antivirus not an OS. An antivirus does not need and it
should not update my software. It should not even check if is updated. That is a privacy issue.
And antivirus should not try to correct what I’m typing in the browser because is not a spelling
software but an antivirus. Yes I understand that maybe If you keep the software updated you don’t
take viruses and if you don’t go to the wrong page you don’t take viruses but don’t do that and if
you do make sure I can see that and it can be easily disabled by anybody
