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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: Laser on August 10, 2004, 04:24:41 AM

Title: Avast/XP Home /AMD 64/SP2
Post by: Laser on August 10, 2004, 04:24:41 AM

Has Avast Home been tested on XP Home,with AMD 64, and with SP2?
I'm thinking of doing it but just checking.

I did upgrade a different PC already with XP Pro with SP2, and it works fine.  What I find interesting about the upgrade is that it was a 266 mb download, but it added only 37 mb to XP Pro.  It does want to make a backup for you if you want, so I had it do it to a different partition.  The backup is 346 mb.

Laser

Title: Re:Avast/XP Home /AMD 64/SP2
Post by: bob3160 on August 10, 2004, 04:59:17 AM

Laser
Welcome to the forum.

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Has Avast Home been tested on XP Home,with AMD 64, and with SP2?

As far as I know, there are still Prob. with AMD 64 and SP2.

Title: Re:Avast/XP Home /AMD 64/SP2
Post by: Vlk on August 10, 2004, 07:59:08 AM

Laser, the current version of avast won't work correctly on this config (XP SP2 + AMD64) unless you remove the /NOEXECUTE flag from c:\boot.ini...

This will be fixed in the upcoming build.

Title: Re:Avast/XP Home /AMD 64/SP2
Post by: Laser on August 10, 2004, 05:55:00 PM

Thanks, will you make some kind of post concerning this update when it's available or has been done?  I Think I have autoupdate turned off for newer versions.

Laser

Title: Re:Avast/XP Home /AMD 64/SP2
Post by: Vlk on August 10, 2004, 05:58:25 PM

I'm sure there will be hundreds of posts here... many folks are eagerly awaiting this update for months! :)

(not because of this particular issue but because of many other new things that it will contain...).

Cheers,
Vlk

Title: Re:Avast/XP Home /AMD 64/SP2
Post by: Laser on August 10, 2004, 06:01:25 PM

OK, I'll be looking for it.

Laser

Title: Re:Avast/XP Home /AMD 64/SP2
Post by: Fr33k on August 10, 2004, 06:03:42 PM

So what exactly is the problem? I noticed it won't scan files using a boot scan, will it not scan files at all?


Avast Home
XP Home SP2
AMD 64

Title: Re:Avast/XP Home /AMD 64/SP2
Post by: Vlk on August 10, 2004, 06:59:37 PM

No, unless you disable the new DEP (Data Execution Prevention) feature. You can disable it on a per-process basis, though. Like you could add ashServ.exe, ashAvast.exe, ashQuick.exe, ashSimpl.exe etc. from the avast folder to the exception list.

Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Performance Settings -> Data Execution Prevention.


Thanks
Vlk