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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: Vlk on October 27, 2005, 05:02:34 PM
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Hi *,
(Updated Nov 12: The update has now been officially released. The relase version is 4.6.731.
here I'm again. An avast Home/Pro update is coming soon (my guess is in about 2 weeks) and as usual, it's my pleasure to announce the availability of a pre-release version of this update.
How to install it (for starters - most people already know this trick anyway ): simply download and run the following program: http://files.avast.com/files/beta/aswbeta.exe . That's about all it takes (provided you have the latest version of avast Home/Pro already installed, of course).
There is a number of fixes in this release and a couple of new features as well. Here's an (incomplete) list:
- aswRdr.sys: fixed a race condition that could eventually lead even to a system crash
- improvements in the executable file unpackers
- enhanced tolerancy against damaged archives
- boot-time scan now supports the "Move to chest" command
- mail scanner: fixes in IMAP handling (NTLM authentication related)
- the "Date of last scan" entry is now updated by all scanners (not only Simple UI)
- added support for CAB and LHA sfx archives
- P2P Shield: added support for BitLord, uTorrent and ABC
- boot-time scan now shows textual error strings (instead of error codes)
- WebShield: fixed parsing of HTTP requests in the case where a header is larger than 64K
- WebShield: fixes in the detection of Transfer-Encoding:chunked
- WebShield: new avast4.ini options: NoDefOptinProcess, NoDefIgnoreProcess, default=0
- WebShield: miniscule fix in the GUI
- minor fixes in the email scanner (related to Lotus Notes clients)
- GUI: most lists (e.g. areas to test, exceptions etc) now support the following keyboard shortcuts: INS = Add, DEL = Delete, F2 = Edit
- Aswrdr.sys: fixed compatibility problem with Windows Vista beta version
- fixed a problem with the boot-time scanner under Windows Vista beta
- fixed crashes of the physical memory scan under WinXP x64
- avast now does not report the "file is corrupted" messages when trying to unpack a modified, unknown or damaged version of a Winexec packer
- sched.exe now supports all params of the boot-time scanner
Any comments on this release are welcome and appreciated!
Thanks
Vlk
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Thanks Vlk, downloading the beta update now.
Perhaps Jooooo, will be happy now ;D
Where should we comment if we have any comments, here or in the Beta sub forum?
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You can report anything here.
It's probably pointless to reopen the beta forum now as I don't expect much feedback with this service release...
Thanks
Vlk
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Thanks Vlk ;D
Just installed it.
Wooww there are new Resident providers icons, again ;D
Perhaps Jooooo, will be happy now ;D
I'm sure he will ;D
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The icons are not really new - they were created for the 691 build but due to a technical error, they didn't make it to that build (some of them).
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Can someone post screenshot of new icons in On-Access panel? I'm not using avast! right now, but i'll probably test it out this weekend...
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Here's the screenshot ;D
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Oh :( I prefered glass like icons in official build. Especially the one for Web Shield and standard shield icon from 4.5 (shield similar to the one on webpage).
But well what can i do... i'll have to get used to these...
They also appear to be alot smaller aren't they?
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Oh :( I prefered glass like icons in official build. Especially the one for Web Shield and standard shield icon from 4.5 (shield similar to the one on webpage).
But well what can i do... i'll have to get used to these...
They also appear to be alot smaller aren't they?
I agree with you...
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just downloaded the beta and i like the new icons but i like anything different.
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OK, except for the icon appearance - any other critical issues? ;D
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OK, except for the icon appearance - any other critical issues? ;D
You're not giving time for us to test ;D
What about my Script Blocker problem never answered, never solved?
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No problems so far and the new icons are cool :)
But what about some icons on the menu, when you right click avast in tray.
I know it's not a necessary thing, but it would be fine anyway.
Also it would be nice in the log viewer if you could doubleclick a line and then the line was copied to the clipboard, instead of you have to export the list to a text file, open the text file, find the line there and copied from there :)
BTW. support for Azureus in the p2p shield, might be a good idea, it is one of the most used torrent clients.
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I downloaded and installed the pre-release version.
It seems to be OK, so far.
I'm checking something.
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3 days and sofar not discovered anything strange or not working except for 1 thing.
When I use Mirc, each line I type is scanned and the IM provider is slowing down the messages I sent to a channel.
Disabling the IM provider solves it.
This did not happen with the previous version of Avast.
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OK, I've downloaded it. Works great till now, so I'm happy. 8) I had a great day: added 256MB of Ram in the morning, and now the new avast. What can be better? ;D
Jooo, look at my new avatar, you'll see the great new icons! I hope you'll be happy at least for two weeks! ;D
PS. Hope no one from Alwil are against my avatar, as I'm using their icons! :-\ It's because I like their program very much! ;D
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Vlk, no problems... tested all providers.
Can you tell us exactly what are the new entries at avast4.ini file?
Opinion: the old icons are better than the new ones :P
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Hi folks. I downloaded the beta version of avast earlier today and just as i came onto my computer just now i noticed that ashserv.exe is very heavy on the processor.
It will use about 94-100% of my cpu for quite a while then decrease back to the usual 2% etc. then after about 30 seconds rapidly increase to 94% again.
I am running Windows XP SP2
Hardware:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
512 KB RAM
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Just an update. The computer slowed down so much that I restarted the computer to see if this had any effect and when it rebooted all was back to normal and the ashserv.exe is running without using large percentage of CPU. However, does anyone know why ashserve.exe would use so much cpu before rebooting and whether it is normal?
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However, does anyone know why ashserve.exe would use so much cpu before rebooting and whether it is normal?
What does the log entries say? Can you dig there and find anything that helps?
Into Windows Events, is there anything interesting to troubleshoot here?
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I did a little fishing around before restarting and found when i paused the standard shield the cpu usage decresed straight away. Pausing other services had no effect. Also, I had installed a program earlier in day and did not restart my pc. Could this have an effect? I will check the logs to see if there are any problems and will try and get update asap but I am working today.
Thanks
Colin
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Was the avast tray icon spinning? That would mean that avast was scanning something.
BTW do you have the Standard Shield sensitivity set to Normal or High? On high, it is scanning all files which may be very expensive.
Thanks
Vlk
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everything works perfectly so far ;D
2 questions to vlk :
- is it enough to set standard shield on "normal"
- did you do something about incompatibility problem (reboot) with ZA 6 ?
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Hey, it seems to be very interesting... I've never tried Normal resident level, I always used high, so now I give a try to normal level, and I'll see if it effects my system speed somehow... ;)
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That box of acknowledgment of update that it is in the bar of tasks will be brought up to date as was said previously in this link?
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=12640.210
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=12640.225
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To cvsa:
- is it enough to set standard shield on "normal"
Yes, I would say. We tried to preset the Standard Shield so that it would give you adequate protection when set to Normal. I'd say it is an ideal balance between reliability and performance...
- did you do something about incompatibility problem (reboot) with ZA 6 ?
Well.. that's a funny story. To sum up, it turned out to be a regular (quite serious) bug in the ZoneAlarm driver. We pinpointed the part of code that was causing the bug, and even suggested a fix. So -- the fix will be included in the next ZA update, and I also have a version of the ZA driver that has the problem fixed. If you want, I can send it to you.
Cheers
Vlk
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- did you do something about incompatibility problem (reboot) with ZA 6 ?
Well.. that's a funny story. To sum up, it turned out to be a regular (quite serious) bug in the ZoneAlarm driver. We pinpointed the part of code that was causing the bug, and even suggested a fix. So -- the fix will be included in the next ZA update, and I also have a version of the ZA driver that has the problem fixed. If you want, I can send it to you.
What a good news !
Why don't you give every avast! user the fixed ZA driver ?
I think many avast! users are using ZA. :D
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Why don't you give every avast! user the fixed ZA driver ?
I think many avast! users are using ZA. :D
Yeah... Can't it be allowed to download?
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If patch is from ZoneAlarm then link wil be good.....
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Was the avast tray icon spinning? That would mean that avast was scanning something.
BTW do you have the Standard Shield sensitivity set to Normal or High? On high, it is scanning all files which may be very expensive.
Thanks
Vlk
I have it set to high. The avast icon was spinning quite a lot whcih would mean it was scanning something a lot. I haven't had the same problem today and my pc has been running all day so i will leave avast and will see how it goes. Will update you if the problem occurs again.
Thanks for everybodys help
Colin
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If you want, I can send it to you.
Thanks vlk, but i already switched to kerio ;)..... and i'm satisfied with it... ;D
but that's a good news !
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I can't publish a download link for the fixed driver because I promised I won't distribute it. What I can do, however, is send it to a limited amount of users for testing purposes.
However, I'm already pretty confident that it fixes the problem as I have sent it to 3 people who were always having the crash in less than an hour and with the fixed driver, their systems have been running for weeks now... :)
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That box of acknowledgment of update that it is in the bar of tasks will be brought up to date as was said previously in this link?
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=12640.210
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=12640.225
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Any word on the problem with the Instant Messaging provider with Mirc?
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I can't publish a download link for the fixed driver because I promised I won't distribute it. What I can do, however, is send it to a limited amount of users for testing purposes.
OK, Vlk.
Zone Labs is an excellent company (the staffs are always in the users side), so I am counting on that they update ZoneAlarm SOON. ;)
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Zone Labs is an excellent company (the staffs are always in the users side), so I am counting on that they update ZoneAlarm SOON. ;)
I don't want to be bitter Iso, but I disagree. ZoneAlarm is a very good product, excelent. ZoneLabs support isn't that a good or, in fact, it's very bad and they're not directed devoted to users. I've tried a lot of times :'(
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That box of acknowledgment of update that it is in the bar of tasks will be brought up to date as was said previously in this link?
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=12640.210
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=12640.225
Why do keep posting the same thing twice (or more often on occasion), you posted this 18 hours ago and I didn't understand it then either.
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What quiz I to say it is:
If the new update of avast will change the box of acknowledgment of update that appears in sings it of the screen, in top of the clock as he is in those links.
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Zone Labs is an excellent company (the staffs are always in the users side), so I am counting on that they update ZoneAlarm SOON. ;)
I don't want to be bitter Iso, but I disagree. ZoneAlarm is a very good product, excelent. ZoneLabs support isn't that a good or, in fact, it's very bad and they're not directed devoted to users. I've tried a lot of times :'(
WOW !
Really....
I've never heard any bad info about ZA Office in Japan....
However Vlk, the program manager of ALWIL Software, has promised he doesn't distribute the improved ZA driver, so I think we shouldn't request him to distribute it.
OK, I'll put my comment ( with the link to here ) for JP users on my web. That is the users who are using avast! with ZA should send e-mail to the Zone Labs support to get the new driver if they have problems.
If ZA wouldn't distribute the improved driver, ZA may lose their confidence quickly in Japan.
But it is OK, because it is caused by ZA's decision that they don't update their product soon.
I'll open my Japanese comment on Nov. 7th.
Because Nov. 3rd is a holiday in Japan and also on Thursday. ZA Japan may be put in trouble, if I put my comment on my web before Nov. 7th. So, I will open my Japanese comment on my web on Monday, Nov. 7th in JST.
(I know this is "Bushi no Nasake". I am counting on that ZA Labs updates their products before my comment, because one week may be much enough for ZA Labs to release the improved driver...)
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Hi is there any word yet on Eddy's question with the problem with Instant Messaging provider with Mirc? Will it be working right when the new release comes out or people using Mirc will they not be able to use Instant Messaging with Mirc , Pal Talk or others. I don't have beta version but I read what Eddy was saying and I was just was wondering sorry if I am being a bother to ask but I haven't seen any reply to Eddy's question yet. I think Avast is great and it has been supported to me for almost 2 years with any problems I have.
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ashserv crashed today while I was browsing a website,... it happened once or twice in the previous versions,....so I assume it is nothing dramatic,...no further problems so far,...the problem I experienced did not return,....
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Crashed? :o
Any more info? A dump file maybe (please see the avast\data\log folder for a file called <something>.dmp). Or maybe at least the Windows EventLog will have some info about the crash?
Thanks
Vlk
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i'm unsure if this was problem with this new beta but hey i will write it up:
you need to have Avast last beta, standard shield on high, last emule and total commander
then ... like 5-15GB downloaded partial files in temp directory ... enter temp directory ...
warning there is very high chance ur system will freeze or crash ....
so far this is only strange thing i noticed for now ...
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Any word on the problem with the Instant Messaging provider with Mirc?
Hi, what problem do you exactly mean? Is it "When I use Mirc, each line I type is scanned and the IM provider is slowing down the messages I sent to a channel."? When you uncheck mIRC only in IM provider, does it help?
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Hi *,
here I'm again. An avast Home/Pro update is coming soon (my guess is in about 2 weeks) and as usual, it's my pleasure to announce the availability of a pre-release version of this update.
How to install it (for starters - most people already know this trick anyway ): simply download and run the following program: http://files.avast.com/files/beta/aswbeta.exe . That's about all it takes (provided you have the latest version of avast Home/Pro already installed, of course).
There is a number of fixes in this release and a couple of new features as well. Here's an (incomplete) list:
- aswRdr.sys: fixed a race condition that could eventually lead even to a system crash
- improvements in the executable file unpackers
- enhanced tolerancy against damaged archives
- boot-time scan now supports the "Move to chest" command
- mail scanner: fixes in IMAP handling (NTLM authentication related)
- the "Date of last scan" entry is now updated by all scanners (not only Simple UI)
- added support for CAB and LHA sfx archives
- P2P Shield: added support for BitLord, uTorrent and ABC
- boot-time scan now shows textual error strings (instead of error codes)
- WebShield: fixed parsing of HTTP requests in the case where a header is larger than 64K
- WebShield: fixes in the detection of Transfer-Encoding:chunked
- WebShield: new avast4.ini options: NoDefOptinProcess, NoDefIgnoreProcess, default=0
- WebShield: miniscule fix in the GUI
- minor fixes in the email scanner (related to Lotus Notes clients)
- GUI: most lists (e.g. areas to test, exceptions etc) now support the following keyboard shortcuts: INS = Add, DEL = Delete, F2 = Edit
- Aswrdr.sys: fixed compatibility problem with Windows Vista beta version
- fixed a problem with the boot-time scanner under Windows Vista beta
- fixed crashes of the physical memory scan under WinXP x64
- avast now does not report the "file is corrupted" messages when trying to unpack a modified, unknown or damaged version of a Winexec packer
- sched.exe now supports all params of the boot-time scanner
Any comments on this release are welcome and appreciated!
Thanks
Vlk
Im new to avast and since that a beta when the the real version comes out then i just update it by going to the update program in avast 4.6 and it will update it right?
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Right, but in this case that you are new in avast, I'd recommend you to stay with non beta version. I think you need to get more familiar with "stable" version of program. Of course it's up to you. It's your choise. Enjoy using avast! ;)
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I think you need to get more familiar with "stable" version of program.
In fact, beta is very very stable... no troubles at all. The users could trust this beta without fear 8)
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Right, but in this case that you are new in avast, I'd recommend you to stay with non beta version. I think you need to get more familiar with "stable" version of program. Of course it's up to you. It's your choise. Enjoy using avast! ;)
YLAP, you're so right. Best possible advice you could give to all fresh users out there. It's not a matter of how stable this beta is, betas are always meant just for testing purposes and for all new users recommendation will always be to use latest stable version. There is really no point for them to install beta since they have no clue what is different from latest stable build and how everything works. They should get used with latest stable build just like you mentioned. Betas are for testers only. Of course no one will forbid him to use beta, it's a free world, but when some problems occurs, new users tend to panic. That's a least thing we all need. That's why it's called beta, because no one can tell you for sure that everything works 100% OK. ;)
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I'm sorry to say, but those icons didn't bring us anything new... just more colors, and their appearance and also pretty much small size, just "helps" not to understand the meaning of some icons... they've got kind of AVG-ish feeling now... again, that's just my humble opinion.
Why no one even considered those icons I suggested in one of those earlier threads ? Here:
(http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/6213/untitled24gb.jpg)
Was a semi-transparency (alpha channel) inside those icons maybe a problem ? It shouldn't be since I am participating in total revamp of icons for one of the best mail checking utilities out there (the only problem with that utility was an pretty not attractive GUI+icons, and that is to be changed very soon). I'm in a process of finishing complete design of those icons, and the main programmer of that utility already integrated them in beta version... they work like a charm. I used 32-bit BMPs (Photoshop only) which are 24-bit BMPs with 8-bit alpha channel. They work similar to PNGs, and there is a wonderful explanation on MSDN official web page on how to make/use those... best thing with that technique is that we can have nice and smooth antialiased edges of icons, so they don't look jaggy at the edges, and even better, we wouldn't have to use those square shaped "boxes" around the icons like they look right now (I guess Martin put that just to avoid jaggy edges, but that's not permanent solution and it looks a way worse that simple icons without those boxes :-\ )
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/winxpicons.asp
Edit: I'm not trying to bugg anyone with this, it's just I followed Vlk's lines from his initial post in this thread:
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Any comments on this release are welcome and appreciated!
Thanks
Vlk
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Excellent suggestion, S.Z.Craftec! ;D
In my opinion, is much better than the current and beta versions... ;)
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Also get rid of Less details button. Those two modes (less and more detailed) just confuse users.
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Also get rid of Less details button. Those two modes (less and more detailed) just confuse users.
I agree with RejZoR :)
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Also get rid of Less details button. Those two modes (less and more detailed) just confuse users.
Exactly ! Wonderful point RejZoR ! MORE DETAILS... that option is totally not needed and all we have form that is we have to do some more explaining when we have to give some advices to new users on how to change some things inside those providers. Remember, by default those icons and all details are hidden... IMHO, totally unnecessary.
Let those icons see day light, and everybody will find their options much easier.
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Thanks
Vlk
Still no support for one of the best P2P programs out there - Azureus ... or am I missing something here, is it possible that some other entry inside P2P clients list covers that ?
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Pavels,
if mirc in the instant messenger provider is uncheked/disabled, everything is normal
when enabled/checked, typin is fine, but when you hit enter to send the text to a channel there is a very noticible delay.
Using mirc 6.14 here on windows XP (fully up-to-date)
I tried other things and it is definatly the mirc part in the instant messaging provider.
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- P2P Shield: added support for BitLord, uTorrent and ABC
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Still no support for one of the best P2P programs out there - Azureus ... or am I missing something here, is it possible that some other entry inside P2P clients list covers that ?
I don't know, perhaps it might have something to do with Azureus not using standard ports?
There have been a number of threads relating to connection timeout errors because Azureus was using the SMTP port for something other than email.
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To be true, I've noticed those threads, but I never ever experienced those internet connection timeouts. Never, and I'm downloading like crazy...
Maybe it has something to do with these settings... maybe people just ned to increase those values:
(http://img484.imageshack.us/img484/5043/untitled25zh.jpg)
Here they are:
(http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/176/untitled33mr.jpg)
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Just another vote for "Less details mode is not needed". ;D I've never used it in all my life! ;D
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Unfortunately my display problem with About avast! is still there.
When I first start my system and the first time I choose About avast! by right clicking on the a in the system tray, all I get is the following:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v190/bob3160/about01.jpg)
when I click on it, it opens to reveal the following:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v190/bob3160/about02.jpg)
At this point, I have to close this display and then again right click on the a in the system tray at which point, I finally get the correct display of:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v190/bob3160/about3.jpg)
Is an answer for this problem ever going to turn up??? Am I the only one who has this problem ???
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I don't have that problem Bob, and to tell the truth, never had it. I am sure, there must be something inside the code that controls the opening of that window... since you don't have similar problems with any other part of avast! GUI, I am sure Alwil guys should be able to check that particular code and compare/find the differences between that one and few other things.
I know how annoying that could be even if it's just about that ABOUT AVAST!... panel. I'm also sure there are some other people with similar problems, it's just they never paid attention to that. Maybe it's coded to use something that's usually always installed inside the OS by default, and maybe (just a possibility) you don't have it installed on your system, I have no clue... but certainly we should get some answers from Alwil coders.
Alwil ?
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Craftec, sure avast! may be redesigned but this release as far as I know is mostly ment to fix bugs and bring some small improvements. Currently we use standard .ICO icons, no PNG or bitmaps and their size is also hardcoded in the program. Antialiasing is not available for these icons.
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Craftec, sure avast! may be redesigned but this release as far as I know is mostly ment to fix bugs and bring some small improvements. Currently we use standard .ICO icons, no PNG or bitmaps and their size is also hardcoded in the program. Antialiasing is not available for these icons.
Lukas, thanks for your promt respond... Yes, I know what is priority when it comes to antivirus or any other security related program and it should be always like that. I was just mentioning new icons, because we all know very well that avast! stands out of any other antivirus utility out there, of course because it's effectivness, but also small part in everything we all have to agree is always graphic appearance. That's all...
Regarding file formats for those icons... nothing is problem. I also use ICO files as well, and in my icon editing utility, normal icon format among all other formats is XP with alpha channel. I just save icon in that format and that's it... of course, it matters if your code engine supports that format or not... but, I just want to say that it's possible. All my icons I made form my desktop were made as XP with alpha channel (32-bit) ICO files.
(http://img466.imageshack.us/img466/7795/untitled30ct.jpg)
And see how some of icons I made looks like on my desktop (Of course I don't keep them on my desktop like that, there are also some variations of the same icon, so this was just for presentation purposes):
(http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/5813/iconsbysasha29rw.jpg)
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Will be added the icons of the S.Z.Craftec avast 4.6 7xx?
In my opinion it would have to be placed, avast is excellent anti-virus, but it needs a good interface starting with the icons, these icons of the S.Z.Craftec are excellent.
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BTW chances are that there was a dump file generated during the crash. It should be in the <avast>\data\log folder and should have the .dmp (or .mdmp) extension.
Vlk, I don't have any dump file.
On contrary, there are debug.txt files there. Many of them.
I've sent one (the last) to support (at) avast.com
Can you say me if it is useful and if my avast! installation have any trouble? Thanks.
Oh, I'm with the beta version.
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Did you get a crash as well, Tech?
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Has the issue "when merging the two icons in the system tray and the PC having shutdown problems" been resolved yet?
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Did you get a crash as well, Tech?
As I've said, no, just the dump file.
Better, when I shutdown my computer last time, I got a blue screen... I'm investigating but does not seem related to avast!
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Unfortunately my display problem with About avast! is still there.
When I first start my system and the first time I choose About avast! by right clicking on the a in the system tray, all I get is the following:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v190/bob3160/about01.jpg)
when I click on it, it opens to reveal the following:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v190/bob3160/about02.jpg)
At this point, I have to close this display and then again right click on the a in the system tray at which point, I finally get the correct display of:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v190/bob3160/about3.jpg)
Is an answer for this problem ever going to turn up??? Am I the only one who has this problem ???
Is this at least being looked at by some one from Alwil? Thanks
Is this at least being looked at by some one from Alwil? Thanks
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I'm sorry to say, but those icons didn't bring us anything new... just more colors, and their appearance and also pretty much small size, just "helps" not to understand the meaning of some icons... they've got kind of AVG-ish feeling now... again, that's just my humble opinion.
Why no one even considered those icons I suggested in one of those earlier threads ? Here:
(http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/6213/untitled24gb.jpg)
Was a semi-transparency (alpha channel) inside those icons maybe a problem ? It shouldn't be since I am participating in total revamp of icons for one of the best mail checking utilities out there (the only problem with that utility was an pretty not attractive GUI+icons, and that is to be changed very soon). I'm in a process of finishing complete design of those icons, and the main programmer of that utility already integrated them in beta version... they work like a charm. I used 32-bit BMPs (Photoshop only) which are 24-bit BMPs with 8-bit alpha channel. They work similar to PNGs, and there is a wonderful explanation on MSDN official web page on how to make/use those... best thing with that technique is that we can have nice and smooth antialiased edges of icons, so they don't look jaggy at the edges, and even better, we wouldn't have to use those square shaped "boxes" around the icons like they look right now (I guess Martin put that just to avoid jaggy edges, but that's not permanent solution and it looks a way worse that simple icons without those boxes :-\ )
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/winxpicons.asp
Edit: I'm not trying to bugg anyone with this, it's just I followed Vlk's lines from his initial post in this thread:
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Any comments on this release are welcome and appreciated!
Thanks
Vlk
Because the icons had not been changed for these?
These icons are very better.
It adds these icons to version 4.6 718?
When will be changed the box of information of update? This of the S.Z.Craftec is excellent, avast will be very better with is box.
On the icons, I have a suggestion:
I say on the icons and interfaces because that is one of the rules that a software must have.
1° Must take care of the necessities of the people.
2° Must be pretty and comfortable to use.
3° Must be fast.
With these icons of the S.Z.Craftec, avast will be very better and will bring comfort to many people, and will make with them uses avast.
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=12640.225
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OK. I think that I found something strange, but I'm not sure :-\
I've noticed that some files are scanned twice during the starting of the Simple User Interface. Is this normall ?
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I've noticed that some files are scanned twice during the starting of the Simple User Interface. Is this normall ?
Do you mean the splash screen?
Twice or repeated scanning used to occur whtn the user selected both Local disks and Folder selection and marked all the local disks (by their letters) again.
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Do you mean the splash screen?
Yes, I mean the splash screen.
Twice or repeated scanning used to occur whtn the user selected both Local disks and Folder selection and marked all the local disks (by their letters) again.
But as far as I know you don't have to select anything for the memory scan, or I am wrong?
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The memory scan is a default prior to loading the simple user interface, if files (you didn't say which, I know they are fast) are being scanned twice perhaps there is more than one occurance of it in the memory.
Unfortunately without further info we can't say if it may be a file that could potentially be called by more than one program and be loaded into memory more than once (if that can or be allowed to happen).
I must admit, I don't watch what is scanned in memory when I start it up. Well I just did it (watched the files being scanned in memory) and it is very, very fast on my system but I didn't notice and apparent duplicate file scanning in memory.
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Some of the double scanned files are: shell32.dll , explorer.exe, netshell.dll and others that I can't remember(I just see their names more that one time)
Well it could be nothing, maybe I am too paranoid ;D
Thanks :)
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Avast has a problem, when I am making one download, if I to disactivate avast, it cancels download.
That is a problem?
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Thats normal because Web Shield terminates active connections made by browser/downloader.
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Ok I've saw strange thing, try this:
1. Press "Choose skin"
2. When decide that You don't want to change skin and press "Cancel"
3. Here it goes: a big and long error window.
4. Close it.
5. Dialog remains, press cancel again.
6. The last error window.
7. Simple User Interface terminates.
Is it normal??? :-\
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When I shutdown my computer last time, I got a blue screen... I'm investigating but does not seem related to avast!
Igor, not even I got it more... (thanks God) so I can investigate further... :-\
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I'm sorry to say, but those icons didn't bring us anything new... just more colors, and their appearance and also pretty much small size, just "helps" not to understand the meaning of some icons... they've got kind of AVG-ish feeling now... again, that's just my humble opinion.
Why no one even considered those icons I suggested in one of those earlier threads ? Here:
(http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/6213/untitled24gb.jpg)
Was a semi-transparency (alpha channel) inside those icons maybe a problem ? It shouldn't be since I am participating in total revamp of icons for one of the best mail checking utilities out there (the only problem with that utility was an pretty not attractive GUI+icons, and that is to be changed very soon). I'm in a process of finishing complete design of those icons, and the main programmer of that utility already integrated them in beta version... they work like a charm. I used 32-bit BMPs (Photoshop only) which are 24-bit BMPs with 8-bit alpha channel. They work similar to PNGs, and there is a wonderful explanation on MSDN official web page on how to make/use those... best thing with that technique is that we can have nice and smooth antialiased edges of icons, so they don't look jaggy at the edges, and even better, we wouldn't have to use those square shaped "boxes" around the icons like they look right now (I guess Martin put that just to avoid jaggy edges, but that's not permanent solution and it looks a way worse that simple icons without those boxes :-\ )
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/winxpicons.asp
Edit: I'm not trying to bugg anyone with this, it's just I followed Vlk's lines from his initial post in this thread:
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Any comments on this release are welcome and appreciated!
Thanks
Vlk
Because the icons had not been changed for these?
These icons are very better.
It adds these icons to version 4.6 718?
Hey how did you get "Script Blocking" as one of your On-access scanner? Is that in the beta version?
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I think script Blocking is for the Pro version right?
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Hey how did you get "Script Blocking" as one of your On-access scanner? Is that in the beta version?
Yeah. Script Blocking is only for the Pro version. Unless you have the pro version, it won't appear as one of your providers.
XKirby
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Hey how did you get "Script Blocking" as one of your On-access scanner? Is that in the beta version?
Yeah. Script Blocking is only for the Pro version. Unless you have the pro version, it won't appear as one of your providers.
XKirby
Thanks, should i switch to the pro version, would it give me extra protection?
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You should be fine with the Home Edition, you can try the free trial Pro Edition, but you have to pay if you want the full version.
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avastForever, with Pro version you won't have super security and protection compared with Home.
Alwil company releases the Home version as the best antivirus and more, free.
With Pro, you'll help the development of Alwil, you'll get schedule options, more flexible configurations (believe, avast! could be even more than the Home version :o).
Script blocker, Enhanced Interface, Silent Instalation, command line options, etc. ;)
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Dear Alwil,
I'm still waiting for some kind of reply to my question about an old unanswered problem:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=17127.msg146362#msg146362
Thanks
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Ok thanks, i stay with Home edition.
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Ok I've saw strange thing, try this:
1. Press "Choose skin"
2. When decide that You don't want to change skin and press "Cancel"
3. Here it goes: a big and long error window.
4. Close it.
5. Dialog remains, press cancel again.
6. The last error window.
7. Simple User Interface terminates.
Is it normal??? :-\
Well, it really doesn't sound normal (though I don't think anything relevant has changed in the beta). Is the problem reproducible, i.e. does it crash every time? Do you have to select a different skin in the selection dialog (before clicking "Cancel") to invoke the crash, or is it enough simply to open the skin selection dialog and then close it with "Cancel"?
Please, try the following: Make sure your Logging sensitivity is set to Info or Debug in program settings; open the Log Viewer and clear the Info cathegory. Now, invoke the crash again. A few new items shoud appear in the Log Viewer (Info) in between. What do they say?
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Dear Alwil,
I'm still waiting for some kind of reply to my question about an old unanswered problem:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=17127.msg146362#msg146362
Thanks
Bob, I'm afraid you are really the only one having that problem. I looked at the AboutBox code again - but there is really nothing special about it, it's the same as many other dialogs in avast!. So, I have really no idea what may cause the described behavior :(
Btw, the first line means that when you rightclick on the avast! tray icon, you don't get the full popup menu, but just one item - "About avast!..."?
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Bob, are you using any Windows theme (or skin) application? (like WindowBlinds)
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Just installed the new beta and its working like a charm, didn't encounter any problems...
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Hi igor
Thanks for the reply.
Btw, the first line means that when you rightclick on the avast! tray icon, you don't get the full popup menu, but just one item - "About avast!..."?
That's correct. All I get on the initial right click is the icon in the sys tray. I have to open it and that reveals the blank pop-up screen which then has to be closed.
Once that's done, I can then again select about and it then opens properly to reveal the info.
Hi Tech
Bob, are you using any Windows theme (or skin) application? (like WindowBlinds)
A long time ago but that's been uninstalled for a long long time.
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Ok I've saw strange thing, try this:
1. Press "Choose skin"
2. When decide that You don't want to change skin and press "Cancel"
3. Here it goes: a big and long error window.
4. Close it.
5. Dialog remains, press cancel again.
6. The last error window.
7. Simple User Interface terminates.
Is it normal??? :-\
Well, it really doesn't sound normal (though I don't think anything relevant has changed in the beta). Is the problem reproducible, i.e. does it crash every time? Do you have to select a different skin in the selection dialog (before clicking "Cancel") to invoke the crash, or is it enough simply to open the skin selection dialog and then close it with "Cancel"?
Please, try the following: Make sure your Logging sensitivity is set to Info or Debug in program settings; open the Log Viewer and clear the Info cathegory. Now, invoke the crash again. A few new items shoud appear in the Log Viewer (Info) in between. What do they say?
Log:
2005.11.02 11:43:21 Pauliux 3252 ASWSIMPLE program run information: CaswSimpleDlg::LoadSkinObjects() failed. Invalid skin?.
2005.11.02 11:44:07 Pauliux 4060 ASWSIMPLE program run information: CaswSimpleDlg::LoadSkinObjects() failed. Invalid skin?.
2005.11.02 11:48:04 Pauliux 948 ASWSIMPLE program run information: CaswSimpleDlg::LoadSkinObjects() failed. Invalid skin?.
It's enough just to press cancel , and error apperas every time... :-\
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Just that? Try to refresh, please... there should be something more (about SkinCorrect()).
Did/do you use any non-English version of avast?
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005.11.03 17:29:14 Pauliux 452 ASWSIMPLE program run information: CaswSimpleDlg::LoadSkinObjects() failed. Invalid skin?.
Nothing more. Using English version of avast, default installation on fresh computer (10 days ago). Besides, I don't use skins usually, so I've noticed it accidentally. :)
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So, did you select skins to be installed during the installation?
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Wait, on debug i've got more info... Soon post it....
Edit: yes, default avast installation. Debug log level and new info here:
2005.11.03 17:47:48 Pauliux 2504 aswSplash - program run information: CaswAvastDlg::OnInitDialog() - timer is active.
2005.11.03 17:47:48 Pauliux 2504 aswSplash - program run information: CaswAvastDlg::OnTimer() - Test memory started..
2005.11.03 17:47:55 Pauliux 2504 aswSplash - program run information: CaswAvastDlg::OnBnClickedAswavastStop() - continue with next application.
2005.11.03 17:47:56 Pauliux 2504 aswSplash - program run information: ScanWithThread() - thread completed.
2005.11.03 17:47:57 Pauliux 2504 aswSplash - program run information: CaswAvastDlg::OnCancel().
2005.11.03 17:47:57 Pauliux 2504 aswSplash - program run information: CaswAvastDlg::RunMainApplication().
2005.11.03 17:47:57 Pauliux 3664 ASWSIMPLE program run information: Initialization of libraries is correct.
2005.11.03 17:47:58 Pauliux 3664 ASWSIMPLE program run information: CaswSimpleDlg::SkinCorrect() > LoadSkinObjects() is called.
2005.11.03 17:48:00 Pauliux 3664 ASWSIMPLE program run information: CaswSimpleDlg::UseSkinClick() szMyString=menu.
2005.11.03 17:48:02 Pauliux 3664 ASWSIMPLE program run information: CaswSimpleDlg::OnDlgSetlayout() is called.
2005.11.03 17:48:05 Pauliux 3664 ASWSIMPLE program run information: CaswSimpleDlg::OnDlgSetlayout() = Skin version was not changed. It could be reloaded..
2005.11.03 17:48:05 Pauliux 3664 ASWSIMPLE program run information: CaswSimpleDlg::SkinCorrect() > LoadSkinObjects() is called.
2005.11.03 17:48:09 Pauliux 3664 ASWSIMPLE program run information: CaswSimpleDlg::SkinCorrect() > OnCancel() is called.
2005.11.03 17:48:09 Pauliux 3664 ASWSIMPLE program run information: Simple dialog is closed..
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OK, check the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ALWIL Software\Avast\4.0
Is there a value called CurrentSkin there?
If not, create it (as a string value) and set it to Silver Panel.asws, or whatever your skin filename is.
Correction: it would work if the value wasn't present - but if the value CurrentSkin is present, but contains an invalid filename, it really behaves as you described. So, delete the value and avast! should recreate it when it's restarted.
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No, there is no entry You've mentioned... but as I'm not using skins usually, it's not a problem for me. just thought it's some kind of beta problem. Skins work well...
Edit: besides, I've just changed one skin to other, and now I have no problems with cancel button anymore. Checked it several times, no error left... Really strange, isn't it? :-\
reg key CurrentSkin is also present in registry. ;D
Thanks for help! ;)
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Runs fine here, event log totally clean, no errors or slowdowns.
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Come on! ;D
Hurry up! ;D We all waiting for the final product to come out Vlk ;)
Vlk and your Avast staff team are doing a great job for the final release to come out soon.
I am sweating down here waiting for the new Avast Secret Anti-Virus weapon product to be installed.
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New Avast Secret Anti-Virus weapon product to be installed.
Secret? What secret? ::)
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To Bob: will this help?
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=17211.msg146644#msg146644
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Sorry Tech
All those settings are already checked.
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I just Noticed one small problem
If you run a boot time scan the information is not updated on the startup GUI
that is "Date of last scan is not updated"
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I wouldn't have though that would be updated as a result of a boot time scan as windows isn't running. So the usual way of updating this data, e.g. via the GUI of the simple user interface can't be used.
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If you run a boot time scan the information is not updated on the startup GUI
that is "Date of last scan is not updated"
Did you run a "system wide" boot-time scan? (i.e. did you select All Local Disks in the scheduling dialog?)
Did you let the whole scan finish?
I checked it right now and it should work...
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Hi,
Guess I found a glitch in the beta, suddenly my outbound mails started getting blocked and I would have to turn off the Internet mail module to send them out. It was working fine but from today onward started happening.
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Having installed the beta and email worked ok and then they didn't work as this isn't consistent and theoretically it should have either worked from when you installed it or not. So I would doubt that it is beta related.
What was the error indicating emails were blocked?
What is your firewall?
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BTW the beta has been updated to v726 now. You can go from 718 to 726 simply by invoking program update from within avast GUI.
This version contains some fixes in the engine + fixes in the new Greek language version + fixes of most stuff discussed in this thread.
Thanks
Vlk
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It was definitely the mail scanner issue, when you shut it down, outbound mails would pass through, anyways, with the new version its working fine so far.
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It was definitely the mail scanner issue, when you shut it down, outbound mails would pass through, anyways, with the new version its working fine so far.
Sometimes the firewall does not show the confirmation dialog and we keep waiting, waiting, blaming against the application when, in fact, the bad guy is the firewall. Sometimes, just booting will solve as the message will be shown again after.
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Tech,
No firewalls here, just CHX packet filter for inbound, leave all the other work to Avast as usual, nothing in my CHX logs show that mail scanner or SMTP was being blocked.
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OK. I think that I found something strange, but I'm not sure :-\
I've noticed that some files are scanned twice during the starting of the Simple User Interface. Is this normall ?
After upgrading to the latest beta(4.6.726) everything is all right - every file is scanned only once ;D
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I wish hv Chinese Traditional (unicode) vesion~` 正體/中文繁體~`（hongkong/taiwan）
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I wish hv Chinese Traditional (unicode) vesion~` 正體/中文繁體~`（hongkong/taiwan）
Can you translate avast?
Maybe you should ask more info to Igor, sending him an Instant Message into this board...
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Never, and I'm downloading like crazy...
Sasha, how do you get protected at Azureus if avast! don't have a P2P protection for it?
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There is no way to protect it with avast! at this point... there is simply no Azureus listen in the list of P2P programs inside avast! P2P provider.
I check everything manually... download files, and never ever execute anything without avast! checking it first. It's not a shortcut, but it works.
I just mentioned that I never ever had any problems with connection timeouts, and as I already mentioned to darth.mikey, a friend of mine who is my neighbour by the way, also uses Azureus with avast! installed, and he also never ever had any of those connection timeouts. Some people reported those problems, but I really have no clue why is that happening on their end while using Azureus.
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I check everything manually... download files, and never ever execute anything without avast! checking it first. It's not a shortcut, but it works.
Is there any possibility of setting ashQuick.exe to scan? Thanks.
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Not that I am aware of... and I went through all those options... couldn't find anything where could I possibly use command line scanner. But as I mentioned before, I download the file and then I check it by right-clicking it, then Scanning it with with avast! scanner...
That's the only solution for now... :-\
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Thanks for bringing this to my attention. :-X im thinking of naming one of my sons Azeureus Morpheus because he uses them so much.
I must tell him to manually scan any downloads in future. ::)
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The version is supposed to be 728. Even after executing the exe file 'about avast' says it is still 726 ???
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Who said it should be 728? ???
726 is correct.
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The first page in fact had referred to updated on 7th version 728. I find it is now corrected to 726
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The first page in fact had referred to updated on 7th version 728. I find it is now corrected to 726
Wasn't that 718, updated to 726?
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I just mentioned that I never ever had any problems with connection timeouts, and as I already mentioned to darth.mikey, a friend of mine who is my neighbour by the way, also uses Azureus with avast! installed, and he also never ever had any of those connection timeouts. Some people reported those problems, but I really have no clue why is that happening on their end while using Azureus.
The timeouts are caused when azureus uses the smtp port for something other than sending email. The ashMaiSv.exe is expecting smtp protocol and doesn't get it and a timeout occurs. There have been at lease two occurances of this (that I have responded to) in these forums about timeout errors and the timeout relates to azureus using port 25 to connect.
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The update has now been officially released. The relase version is 4.6.731.
To update your BETA to this version, simply invoke the program update from within the avast GUI. This will revert you to the release version update stream.
Thanks to anyone who helped to test this product.
Vlk
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Vlk:
The update has now been officially released. The relase version is 4.6.731
Just received the official release via Auto-update :)
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I'm still on 4.6.691. Just got a message that a newer version is available -- click here to install.
Is this the correct way to update? Or should I download the newer version... uninstall the older version and THEN install 4.6.731?
Thanks. Just want to be sure.
Win 98 SE; IE-5.5 (SP-2); OE-5.5 (SP-2);
Pentium-2 350 mhz... yeah it's an old one
Rick F.
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Just got a message that a newer version is available -- click here to install.
Is this the correct way to update?
It sure is.... :)
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I'm installing ...right now....
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I'm still on 4.6.691. Just got a message that a newer version is available -- click here to install.
Is this the correct way to update? Or should I download the newer version... uninstall the older version and THEN install 4.6.731?
Yes it is, especially if you have the Auto Updates set to either 'Ask when to update' or 'Automatic' it is what we like about avast! ;D
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Thanks guys.
I updated by 'right-clicking' on the blue ball, then 'update program'. It seemed to work just fine. I almost canceled out though because I thought I saw a module being downloaded with the 'pro' reference. I allowed it to finish and I'm now on 4.6.731.
But I do notice that my license key is now blank. Is this normal? Do I need to re-register?
Thanx. Rick F.
Win98 SE; IE-5.5; OE-5.5 (sp-2)
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Where are you looking at the license/Registration key?
If you go to the point of looking as if you were going to input the license/registration key (e.g. click the License Key... button) then it will be blank to allow for the input of the key.
If you simply look at the about avast, Registration Key: you will see a partial key displayed.
See image, so you shouldn't need to re-register.
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If you simply look at the about avast, Registration Key: you will see a partial key displayed.
See image, so you shouldn't need to re-register.
Thanks David. I see now that I don't have to do anything as my registration is still valid. I was looking where I would enter a reg key like you suspected. That's where I saw the blank.
Thanks again. :)
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Your welcome, if you click the little + sign next to it you will see when the current registration needs renewal.