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Hi… Just started to use Avast. Had AVG for a long time but felt it did not do a thorough job. Avast gets right ‘down and dirty’ to do the job…!! I also like the fact that more than just 1 scan can be done at the same time or individual scans for seperate files etc.

I feel safer with Avast and so far it’s been fine. No reason at all for me to revert back to AVG or seek another Anti Virus. Im happy…!!

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That’s your opinion which not everyone agrees with.
There have been many improvements but you need to keep up with them in order to appreciate them.
Windows 3.0 wasn’t broken either I however prefer windows 8. :slight_smile:

The picture deals with the fact that everything after 3.1 was a clusterf*ck of “improvements” that did nothing but piss people off. The bottom line is not “improvements” … it’s making money. Improvements are nothing more than a money making ploy by sociopathic business-people who don’t give a rats ass about you or what you think or feel - because they can’t - it’s physical impossibility because the needed areas of the brain that govern things like empathy simply do not work. If something is created that does the job, it should be left alone - but it isn’t. Why would that be? Simple … if we leave it alone, we don’t make money.

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I will reserve my vote when I find out to update the definitions. All I get is cannot “connect to server”. Temporarily I am downloading the file and doing a local update. Anyone know how to fix this? :frowning:

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Set avast! to: Direct Connection (No Proxy)

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Did that same error message.

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The “connect to server” is possibly firewall blocking.
What is your operating system and firewall ?
Does it allow avast.setup internet access ?

  • If it does delete the entry for it and do a manual update, this should force the firewall to ask permission again.
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Turn off firewall and no difference. Os XP sp3. Software updater has no problems and I am able to manually update from http://www.avast.com/download-update. Deleted firewall rule which was full access and when I did a manual update the firewall pop up asked for permission for Avast which I gave permanent permission and same result. The error also states " cannot connect to download325.avast.com. BTW streaming updates has a connection.

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XP firewall has no outbound protection, so shouldn’t have any effect on avast.

How long have you had avast installed ?
Have (or did) you another Anti-Virus installed in this system, if so what was it and how did you get rid of it ?

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It’s a new install, Avast has never updated automatically. Previous Anti-Virus was Avira for years and it was removed thru the Windows add or remove program in the control panel. Before I installed Avast I installed AVG for 1 day but it was not working right and was uninstalled the same way.

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It is possibly worth running their specific uninstall utilities:

Note: So as not to get lost in this massive unrelated topic, it would be best to continue this in your own new topic.

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I ran both AVG and Avira with no change. Cannot Connect To Server Error.

Topic continued as new topic at http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=120446.0

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Hi!

If somebody isn’t able to install ‘avast8’ for there are too much problems and went back to version 7; will he/she get VPS-Updates for the future?

HDW38

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The VPS updates are the same for both so they should be around for some considerable time, but no one can say for the future.

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Thanks a lot, DavidR. Such is life. :frowning: :cry:

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Wonderful version avast team! Very very fast, stable and very, very beautiful GUI guys!!! :wink:

King Regards,
Panos.

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I HATE windoze 8. I have it on my new laptop, just about have it to where it works…Start8, no Metro, no charms, no hot spots, start button, run button, normal desktop.
I feel about the same way with the new Avast 8.
Do folks really think we need all that stuff?
I tried last night to go through it and find things. Just finding mail protection to turn it off was NOT intuitive.
I got it, but geez, guys.

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I killed off all the alert pop ups, sounds, cloud, all of it.
I guess you can streamline it a bit.
I trust cloud as far as I can throw it. MS makes a big deal out of it, guess where the hackers will spend their time now?
Anybody who puts data in the Cloud had better think about that twice until it’s really proven safe.
Streaming updates?
No way.
Set it to let me know when updates are available.
I find Avast downloading once without permission, it’s going the way of Norton and MacAfee…in the round file

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@ ScaleCraft
Be thankful that avast is one of the most configurable AVs and allows you to set it up the way you want it.

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This is hard ???

http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/screenshots/u/Lh/1365509917137-97000.png

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Oh, I found that. Three different places, about gave up.
Who would have thought it was under security?
I went first to “settings”…nope.
Well, maybe “account”…nope.
I did kill it, and I had to. Still trying to figure out why a port change in outgoing e-mail causes Avast to block sending e-mails.