Will Avast 4.8 Home Edition run on Windows 7 64bit ? ???
Yes.
Thank you very much.
You’re welcome.
But, of course, you’ll use avast 5 in Windows 7 
I will use Avast 5, is it good enough at the beta level to run on my PC i use daily?
Short answer not yet as it isn’t completely functional and shouldn’t really be used on a live system unless you are prepared for possible problems and even an infection. That is the standard beta rule, which is more so when talking of security applications.
So it is best to wait and monitor the beta sub-forum as there will become a point when it is fully functional and provide adequate protection. But still there is the whole beta issue is you accept the risk.
Yea I’ll just use 4.8 till Avast 5 is fully ready, do you know or have an idea when it will be fully ready? Oct, Nov or Dec ?
It was pencilled in for Oct, but that depends on how well the Beta version goes, currently on Beta2, but there is no fixed scale of beta versions before the regular release of version 5.0.
The blog indicates October:
http://blog.avast.com/2009/07/20/avast-5-is-coming-soon
So is Windows 7.
Thank you everyone for all of this info.
You’re welcome.
avast! is fully compatible with Windows 7.
See this link.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/antivirus-partners/windows-7.aspx
Good Luck!
From practical experience: yes it runs, but don’t expect it to keep its self up-to-date.
You’ll get regular messages in the Action Centre telling you anti-virus is out-of-date and advising you to update
(this is with both iAVS and program updates set to automatic).
Now I’m of the old fashioned persuasion that says out-of-date anti-virus ain’t worth having, so:
if you want a “set and forget” AV service (like you get with Avast! on other versions of windows) look else where!
You should expect it to keep itself up to date as other win7 users are finding, if this were the case there would be many more topics on the forums relating to win7 and updates and I’m not seeing that.
So this issue that you have isn’t the norm but an exception, why it is happening on your system I don’t know.
A possibly one is if you reinstalled the Pro version trial, once you uninstall it, avast considers the trial completed as you uninstalled it. When you reinstall it, avast’s anti-piracy recognises you have had the trial installed before and drops the trial period to 6 days. After that 6 days the Pro trial version won’t update.
So you could either register and get a Home licence and enter that into the license key input, that would downgrade to the Home version, but you should be able to update. Or you could purchase the pro license and enter that which would restore the ability to update. Having said that I think at the end of the trial period avast pro doesn’t work not just doesn’t update; I don’t know this for certain as I use the Home version.
Just to clarify:
I have built two Win 7 boxes, about a month apart, both have had Win 7 RC installed.
Avast has been downloaded fresh for each install.
In both cases Avast has failed to update.
Is that on same IP address or different one,Avast probably remembers IP addresses along with lic. keys
No, not really.