Where is avast new version to fix bugs?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
1

It has been a while. I was wondering

a) will avast release a new version to fix the numerous BSOD cause by 6.0.1203 and the avast enhanced protection problem or avast will jump straight to version 7?

b) if a new version is release to fix the BSODs and enhance protection, when will it be available (the beta)?

2

Enhanced protection things is NOT related to avast! in any way because i’ve seen it with other things as well.

A new build is planned to solve few issues. Not sure what exactly will land in it though, but i know its in the works. avast! 7 is not to be expected before year 2012.

3

Nice. But you don’t know when the beta will be release?

4

Nobody does (except maybe Rednose, the Avast! Insider ;D) , they just drop it on the forum when it is done with alpha.

5

I’m not aware of any bugs. As far as I see, the Enhanced protection only kicks in if you are infected.

6

Try doing a clean install on a fresh Win 7 32 bit with no security except Sandboxie with the latest avast 6.0.1203. When avast installer state “finishing installation”, you will get a BSOD. Happen on 2 computers with Win 7 32 bit. Coincidence? I think not.

7

There are certainly bugs in Avast 6.0.1203, some already solved (read as “prepeared for the next beta”). I think that Dch48 was referring to the “enhanced mode” issue only, if I understood correctly.

8

Not really, I wasn’t aware there were any BSOD’s still happening and the only things I read about the Enhanced Protection mode showed that it was happening after a certain type of malware infection. As far as sandboxie goes, never had it, never will.

9

Certainly some problems with 1203 and XP. The fact that pk provided a patch
attests to that.

Doesn’t Avast! use XP in their test bed any more?

10

PK released one patch for WinXP only. Since I don’t have any of those installed, I have no need to apply that patch.

ap2011-17-07-002: Patch for slowdown with RAXCO PerfectDisk/Retrospect/Norton Ghost software, Windows XP only! (Free/Pro/IS)

One patch is for AIS only. Since the OS is not listed, it must be for all Windows version supported.

ap2011-17-07-001: Patch for boot-time defrag issue with RAXCO PerfectDisk (AIS users with installed Firewall component)

The third patch is for ntdll.dll syscall exports and also does not mention the OS targeted.

ap2011-24-07-001: Patch for ntdll.dll syscall exports (Free/Pro/IS)

I haven’t installed this third patch, either. The OS is not mentioned for this patch. So far, I haven’t noticed any problems with Avast Free. If I do have a problem before the forthcoming update, I’ll apply this patch.

I would think that Avast tests their products on all supported operating systems. If the 2 patches that aren’t specifically targeted to WinXP are not for all supported OS, then http://public.avast.com/~kurtin/patches/ should be revised to reflect that.