I have decided to upgrade from Home to Pro based on my experiences with Avast/Alwil.
(I have a couple problems/questions for Alwil below, so please read on.)
A problem with a file that gave a false positive with Avast but no other antivirus program was fixed with the next virus database update after I posted details
Alwil fixed a problem I took the time to document that prevented me from copying files from a network share to a volumn mounted in an NTFS directory; the fix was made available in a beta release withing a day or two
This kind of support deserves its own support, so I am upgrading.
However, I have a couple of questions:
When I click on the One Year upgrade icon at the web site (the site you arive at when you use Avast and choose “Upgrade to avast! Professional Edition…”), the purchase web site does not appear. Has anyone else had this problem recently? (Using IE6 under Win XP Pro 64).
Since I am now running the beta, how will upgrading to Professional affect this? I need the fix in the beta version.
Are you able to browse other URLs ?
After an update (albeit to beta) elements of the program change and could be being blocked by your firewall. Does pausing or terminating the Web Shied provider help ?
Are there any error messages displayed ?
I would personally wait until the beta testing of this version is complete and is officially released as a program update. The reason I say this is once you purchase the Pro License you will receive your key by email, normally you enter this key whilst on-line and avast will upgrade to the pro version without you having to do anything else. I’m not sure how this process would go with a beta version installed, though one of the Alwil team would be able to say for certain.
The beta testing usually doesn’t take that long a couple of weeks providing there are no issues reported. Monitor the beta topic, http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=27439.0 and the forums you should see when this is released as a normal program update. Then you can update to the released version before purchasing your license and upgrading to the pro version.
But won’t the conversion process from home beta to pro download the Pro elements and not the beta version of those pro elements if there is any possibility of that happening (I don’t know how smart the conversion process is), then it could leave you with a mixture of beta and regular code.
Technical’s correct, if you insert a Professional Edition license key to Home beta it will simply upgrade itself to Pro beta (same build number).
BTW I have to apologize for the links on the http://www.avast.com/eng/upgrade-to-avast-professional.html page, you’re right, they seem to be broken! I have notified our webmaster, he should fix it asap. Thanks for pointing this out! (I know there have been some changes on this page - and somehow, the links must’ve gotten screwed during this process :-[).
I’m happy to use the direct purchase link you provided, but just so you know: the link from the product itself, when you click on the big icon for “1 Year” still fails. Here is the URL it is sending me to:
I have just tried the link you mentioned (i year button) from the website and that worked fine, I was using Firefox with NoScript enabled, I had to allow shareit.com.
You say it doesn’t work, in what way any errors, etc. (a screenshot might help) ?
I’m ready to buy!