Version: 18.3.2333

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Good news everyone,
new stable version 18.3.2333 has just been released.

What’s new:

  • Avast now opens even faster

  • Avast Passwords settings have been redesigned for easier use

Fixed:

  • Squashed a Virus Chest bug that mistakenly deleted files when you tried to restore them
  • Our welcome screen is now displayed properly after Avast is installed
  • Firewall no longer blocks your emails over IPv6
  • Game Mode popups about newly added games now slide away as intended
  • Exterminated a Behavior Shield startup bug

How to install:

  1. Update from your existing Avast version via Settings → Update → Update program

  2. Or you can download and install from here

Online installers (recommended):

http://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avast_free_antivirus_setup.exe

http://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avast_internet_security_setup.exe

http://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avast_premier_antivirus_setup.exe

Offline installers:

http://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avast_free_antivirus_setup_offline.exe

http://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avast_internet_security_setup_offline.exe

http://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avast_premier_antivirus_setup_offline.exe

We hope you enjoy the new version!
AVAST Team

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Thank you soooo much

Atleast it finally opens fast

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Over the top installation (update with offline installer) of Avast Free and there is no welcome screen.
Also, installed version is 18.3.2333.

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Thanks for the new release :slight_smile:

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The restore tab at the virus Chest gets my files deleted .

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My current issue still hasn’t been resolved and still waiting for Avast https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=217162.0

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https://screencast-o-matic.com/screenshots/u/Lh/1522761683407-61688.png

Time for an update. :slight_smile:

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we continue working on other improvements to load even faster. from the first number the improvement is approx 30% faster

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new stable version 18.3.2331 has just been released.
Fix the typo. :) Thanks.Testing it ASAP.. ;)
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Avast v.18.3(Stable) GUI Loadup time:https://youtu.be/E2_mJudjPEg

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Mine starts up quite a bit faster. :slight_smile:

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Lucky… :slight_smile:

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Updated. If it is faster (talking about UI load times) it is barely noticeable, IMHO :slight_smile: I have not noticed the the improvement of approx 30% :slight_smile:

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I’m not in the habit of timing GUI opening, however the UI on my OS’s does open smoother and appears somewhat faster. :slight_smile:

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I too am not in the habit of sitting at my computer with a stop watch, however this 18.3.2333 UI does load noticeably quicker without the requirement of a stopwatch. This was on my general test system, XP Pro SP3 Desktop

That said, I did break out my stopwatch, used on my morning exercise:
I did a test on loading the existing UI with all of the normal programs I would have loaded/running before update, that took 6.03 seconds.

I then completed the update including the update and once things had settled down ran the test again, this took 3.64 seconds. This was with negligible programs running (startups only) so no additional load.

Now I loaded those programs I use regularly and started the UI again, no difference really loaded in 3.59 seconds. I may have been a little quicker on the buttons this time as the first ones caught me out a little.

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As I said, for me the UI loads faster than in the last release.

https://screencast-o-matic.com/screenshots/u/Lh/1522777146964-71079.png

https://youtu.be/PNXK75FnybY

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Looks like the duration of the scan (incorrectly reported as a few seconds) in Scan History has been resolved. I ran a Quick Scan and timed it at 3 minutes and 2.47 seconds. The scan History reported it as 3 minutes for 22253 files in 5742 folders for 7.8GB of data.

EDIT: Interestingly scan details prior to this update are now reporting what would appear to be actual times and not the ‘a few seconds’ text they previously displayed.

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A good stable release which hasn’t seemed to introduce any new bugs. The UI opening is a bit faster than before but can still be significantly improved.

More works needs to be done to:

  • fix the delay of Avast notification alerts and the sound. Currently, the sound comes first and then the notification alert later… they should be in sync.
  • add useful stats to the Scan UI
  • start planning to bring the stats back for the shields
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I though Avast had already said that the Stats wouldn’t be coming back ?

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Did the update using the full offline installer on both machines and it went well. But on my old Dell Dimension 8200 P4 1.6Ghz 2GB RAM with XP PRO SP3 it does take a little while to put the Avast Icon in the System Tray … It loads much faster on my Toshiaba Laptop with Windows 10 Home 64 Build 1709 (that machine has Celeron B830 at 1.8GHZ & 4GB RAM)