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Title: Avast 7 Alpha
Post by: snow755 on June 22, 2011, 04:21:10 AM
hello



when could we see Avast 7 Alpha  has far has i no Avast is the olny thing out there thats not doing a beta of some  in all so AVG this started AVG 2012 beta today  so i would be nic if Avast  can roll out a Alpha  or beta of Avast 7  could we may be all so see some photos of the new Avast 7 i like too see what it could be looking like
Title: Re: Avast 7 Alpha
Post by: Gargamel360 on June 22, 2011, 04:54:35 AM
so AVG this started AVG 2012 beta today 
But its not '12 yet, is AVG's calender wrong?  :P

In all seriousness, you just got an answer from an Avast! employee that said "unlikely" a couple weeks ago.  AVG's or any other competitors releases have nothing to do with Avast!'s release sched., what did you think has changed in the meantime since your last answer?  ::)



this "rapid release/update" thing is getting to be bit of a fad, no?  Everyone wants a new release yesterday....

Title: Re: Avast 7 Alpha
Post by: Ashish Singh on June 22, 2011, 11:48:08 AM
Well because we don't like the UI of avast 6.
Bitdefender, Kaspersky, ESET,AVG,Norton and many more has their calender wrong and they are either testing 2012 version or already released 2012 versions in the market.

I wanted avast to change its UI and can keep the current version. Or atleast give us an option to do that.

Regards
Ashish
Title: Re: Avast 7 Alpha
Post by: s4u on June 22, 2011, 01:48:15 PM
On the German forum there have been a interesting topic on Avast 7
http://forum.avadas.de/threads/2994-avast!-7-Neuigkeiten-Ger%C3%BCchte-Spekulationen-und-Vorschl%C3%A4ge
Title: Re: Avast 7 Alpha
Post by: Gargamel360 on June 22, 2011, 06:51:30 PM
Well because we don't like the UI of avast 6.
Uhh, who is "we"?  He said nothing of the UI.  Do you know this person, are you organizing some kind of "Avast! UI Resistance Movment"?  ;D
Or just a typo?  Thats ok, I guess...hope it is one of those and not you padding your opinion with multiple accounts.
Bitdefender, Kaspersky, ESET,AVG,Norton and many more has their calender wrong and they are either testing 2012 version or already released 2012 versions in the market.
Yes, I know, I was joking, hence the emoticon>> :P
Title: Re: Avast 7 Alpha
Post by: Asyn on June 22, 2011, 06:57:44 PM
Well because we don't like the UI of avast 6.
Uhh, who is "we"?  He said nothing of the UI.  Do you know this person, are you organizing some kind of "Avast! UI Resistance Movment"?  ;D

I also don't want to be included into this "we"...! ;D
I like the actual GUI.
Title: Re: Avast 7 Alpha
Post by: DJBone on June 22, 2011, 07:09:10 PM
I also don't want to be included into this "we"...! ;D
I like the actual GUI.

+1  :)
Title: Re: Avast 7 Alpha
Post by: RejZoR on June 22, 2011, 07:18:46 PM
Well because we don't like the UI of avast 6.
Bitdefender, Kaspersky, ESET,AVG,Norton and many more has their calender wrong and they are either testing 2012 version or already released 2012 versions in the market.

I wanted avast to change its UI and can keep the current version. Or atleast give us an option to do that.

Regards
Ashish

When it looked like media player, ppl didn't like it. Now it looks like proper program and ppl again don't like it. It's hard to satisfy 100+ million users in every way so you just have to pick some middle way. And quite honestly i don't see anything wrong with the GUI. It's nice to look at, well organized, logial to use and just works.
Title: Re: Avast 7 Alpha
Post by: jimmy556 on June 22, 2011, 07:42:40 PM
so avast is going into the cloud?  :o
Title: Re: Avast 7 Alpha
Post by: DavidR on June 22, 2011, 07:58:34 PM
God do I hate that buzz word, it really is totally meaningless, its just a sodding on-line server for heavens sake.

The problem being there is such a loose definition of what cloud actually is and in relation to security applications, I don't believe it pays to be too reliant on solely on-line features.

It isn't a panacea a solution to all system ills, avast already has elements which could loosely be called 'cloud' based.
Title: Re: Avast 7 Alpha
Post by: Ashish Singh on June 23, 2011, 06:45:59 AM
Well because we don't like the UI of avast 6.
Uhh, who is "we"?  He said nothing of the UI.  Do you know this person, are you organizing some kind of "Avast! UI Resistance Movment"?  ;D

I also don't want to be included into this "we"...! ;D
I like the actual GUI.

You can  have many people who like media player skin now also. And many people who don't like the avast current GUI.
Well just search the forum you will get it or visit avast facebook page and search there you will get many people asking avast to change GUI

Thanks
Title: Re: Avast 7 Alpha
Post by: Vlk on June 23, 2011, 07:44:33 AM
It has been announced for a few times that we'd like to stick with a yearly release cycle moving forward. And since v6 was released on Feb 23, 2011, you can probably do the math and estimate when we plan to release v7.

That's all I can say atm, given it's June 2011.

Thanks
Vlk
Title: Re: Avast 7 Alpha
Post by: avadas.de on June 23, 2011, 03:00:05 PM
Hello,

the thread linked above by SecurityAdvisor mentions just a list of more of less confirmed items collected in various discussions and announcements. It is surely not a guarantee that a certain feature gets included in the next avast! 7 release for 100%, that is also what we strongly mentioned in the thread.

Furthermore it is a thread where we collect and discuss suggestions from our users.

Lets take "Cloud Technology" as an example. Like DavidR already mentioned...it is a buzzword at the moment, without any proper or common definition. If you take the wide-ranged sense of "cloud" avast! is already incorporating cloud technology when it comes to CommunityIQ and VirusTotal submissions, even WebRep is a cloud feature. What we talking about now is "cloud-based lookups", but this was already mentioned in last years roadmap (or by VLK in a reply in some thread). It was dropped in favour of some new concepts like SafeZone and AutoSandbox (which I much more prefer and think is a much better concept). So you can see that nothing is for sure, only the guys at AVAST know exactly what will be in the next version. And that's totally perfect, otherwise there would be no room for rumours ;)
Title: Re: Avast 7 Alpha
Post by: manwhofind on January 18, 2012, 07:57:37 AM
Hey , I want to download Avast 7 , please give me  link to download
Title: Re: Avast 7 Alpha
Post by: CraigB on January 18, 2012, 09:23:09 AM
Hey , I want to download Avast 7 , please give me  link to download

You cant download something that hasn't been released  ::)

You'll just have to wait till end of Jan-Feb.
Title: Re: Avast 7 Alpha
Post by: manwhofind on January 18, 2012, 02:57:30 PM
Oh, thanks. 
I Wish Avast 7 will repair the infected file better than  version 6
Avast version 4.8 ->6  usuallys delete or move to quarantin the infected file
 With me , Avast is alway the best friend that I haver ever had ... . It's behavior analysis is wonderful
Title: Re: Avast 7 Alpha
Post by: manwhofind on January 18, 2012, 02:58:33 PM
Right here waitting for ... Avast 7
Title: Re: Avast 7 Alpha
Post by: Shiw Liang on January 18, 2012, 04:26:16 PM
Oh, thanks. 
I Wish Avast 7 will repair the infected file better than  version 6
Avast version 4.8 ->6  usuallys delete or move to quarantin the infected file
 With me , Avast is alway the best friend that I haver ever had ... . It's behavior analysis is wonderful
Only certain types of infection can be repaired. Even if avast goes from version 6 to version 7. It won't be able to repair what can't be repaired...So don't expect the version 7 to be able to fix more infected files...
Title: Re: Avast 7 Alpha
Post by: manwhofind on January 19, 2012, 03:51:15 PM


Only certain types of infection can be repaired. Even if avast goes from version 6 to version 7. It won't be able to repair what can't be repaired...So don't expect the version 7 to be able to fix more infected files...

I Don't think so.
Antivirus can't detect  every virus . If the file system has infected malware , Avast only detect it  with the next Updating version

How do you think If It will  delete or move to quarantinthe the infected file system  ???
Title: Re: Avast 7 Alpha
Post by: Pondus on January 19, 2012, 03:56:10 PM
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As an example, if you instruct your antivirus software to delete all infected files, those that were infected by a true file infecting virus could also be deleted. This could impact the normal features and functionality of your operating system or programs you use. On the other hand, antivirus software can't 'clean' a worm or a trojan, because there is nothing to clean - the entire file IS the worm or trojan. Quarantine plays a nice middle ground, because it moves the file to safe storage under control of the antivirus program - so it can't harm your system - but it's there in case a mistake was made and you need to restore that file.

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Clean: attempts to remove the infection from the file. This is only pertinent to virus behavior, wherein a legitimate file has been 'infected' with non-legitimate (usually viral) code.

Clean, Quarantine, or Delete?
http://antivirus.about.com/b/2007/03/11/clean-quarantine-or-delete.htm
Title: Re: Avast 7 Alpha
Post by: manwhofind on January 19, 2012, 04:04:38 PM
Thanks
But I Hope Avast can remove the infection from the file ( Because I like Avast morthan at all ). Some
AV ( AVG, Avira... )  is starting to do it

Nothing is impossible





Title: Re: Avast 7 Alpha
Post by: Pondus on January 19, 2012, 04:08:02 PM
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But I Hope Avast can remove the infection from the file.....
what file?
what infection?
Title: Re: Avast 7 Alpha
Post by: manwhofind on January 19, 2012, 04:11:59 PM
 The file system ...
I think,   Repair windows after deleting  malware is not  interesting ....
Title: Re: Avast 7 Alpha
Post by: DavidR on January 19, 2012, 05:43:37 PM
Before anyone can say anything we would need to know more about the problem/detection, e.g. the file name, the location of the file and the malware name, etc.

Because as has been said unless it is a virus infection (and the information mentioned helps determine that), then a repair of the file isn't possible (for any AV not just avast). If the content is completely malicious then the only repair is effectively removal or quarantine.

A repair as has been said is the removal of the virus element inserted in a legitimate file, it is no different for any AV they will be trying to do the same thing. Some may be more effective, but that doesn't change the fact that it is true virus infections which can attempt to be repaired.