Avast AV Beta-Version [17.8.2317]
Changelog/Fixes:
• Firewall component status reporting
• Real Site (Secure DNS) component crashing
• Issue related to in-product messaging causing the service to consume abnormal CPU resources
• Service crashing when license file is not present
• Update execution from Windows Security Center when product is outdated
• Restoring of malware from the virus Chest detected by Behavioral Shield when removal required computer restart
• Displaying toaster for Smart Scan when it is executed and User Interface is closed
• User Interface crashing when all options in Smart Scan were disabled
• Accepting special characters (such as <, >, etc.) in displaying toasters (such as Firewall - new network detection)
• Behavioral Shield does not display detection dialog when any of the automatic modes is enabled
• Restore dialog in Chest is correctly in CEF now
• User Interface crashing when Firewall button was used in displayed Firewall toaster
• Issue with creating Rescue USB disc on some (usually older ones) types of USB flash drives
• Scheduled daily scan is now always run on time
Known issues:
• Scan for performance issues (in SmartScan or Performance → Cleanup) did not find any issue and got stuck in scanning progress
» Note: This issue was just partially fixed. However, still happenning and under further investigation at the moment.
• UI freeze during sample restore from Virus Chest
Suggested areas of testing:
• Restoring of samples from Virus Chest
• Scan settings and applying of these settings for different scans
• Smart scan and performance scan behavior
We are aware of suspicious behavior in mentioned areas and we would like to get your feedback and bug reports regarding these areas. It is important for us to obtain more results from different scenarios, environments, OS's, and so on.