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Title: I finally broke down and purchased AIS
Post by: wonderwrench on September 09, 2010, 05:44:01 AM
I have used Avast home/free for years and decided it was time to buy AIS and give something back. I'm very impressed so far. I had zero problems upgrading from Avast 5 free to AIS on my three Windows 7 64 bit PC's. Made the purchase got my license and had the first PC registered and updated to AIS in under 10 minutes. The upgrade process was smooth as silk. It could not have been easier. I can't wait until 5.1 comes out!

Bill
Title: Re: I finally broke down and purchased AIS
Post by: Lisandro on September 09, 2010, 01:19:07 PM
It's always comfortable to receive a positive feedback :)
Title: Re: I finally broke down and purchased AIS
Post by: Hermite15 on September 09, 2010, 01:45:34 PM
yeah, gotta say that a straight good report after a brand new upgrade to AIS ... I'm pleasantly surprised ;D

edit: contrasting with this sort of report: :D
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=63689.msg538342#msg538342
Title: Re: I finally broke down and purchased AIS
Post by: jadinolf on September 10, 2010, 01:59:31 AM
Quote from: wonderwrench on September 09, 2010, 05:44:01 AM
I have used Avast home/free for years and decided it was time to buy AIS and give something back. I'm very impressed so far. I had zero problems upgrading from Avast 5 free to AIS on my three Windows 7 64 bit PC's. Made the purchase got my license and had the first PC registered and updated to AIS in under 10 minutes. The upgrade process was smooth as silk. It could not have been easier. I can't wait until 5.1 comes out!

Bill
You made a good purchase.
Title: Re: I finally broke down and purchased AIS
Post by: wonderwrench on September 10, 2010, 04:13:59 AM
Update: I had a chance to play around with the sandbox and it seems to work OK with FF. I'm not a big fan what you have to go through to launch FF in the sandbox though. It would be nice to be able to launch stuff pinned to the taskbar sandboxed. Looks to be a limitation in windows 7 it self so I doubt anything can be done about it. I know I can setup FF to always run sandboxed but I'm not ready for that yet. I was expecting a heavier feel to AIS but I can't tell any difference from the free version.

Bill
Title: Re: I finally broke down and purchased AIS
Post by: Lisandro on September 10, 2010, 04:18:16 AM
Quote from: wonderwrench on September 10, 2010, 04:13:59 AM
It would be nice to be able to launch stuff pinned to the taskbar sandboxed. Looks to be a limitation in windows 7 it self so I doubt anything can be done about it.
You can add FF to the always sandboxed applications into avast settings.
You can't make (yet) a command line link to a sandboxed application.
Title: Re: I finally broke down and purchased AIS
Post by: wonderwrench on October 07, 2010, 05:23:05 PM
Its been a month and I'd like to report AIS has been 100% trouble free on all three of my Windows 7 64 bit PC's. I still can hardly believe how easy it was to upgrade from free to IS. All I can say is flawless!

Bill