Hi, new to the forum here. I have avast! Internet Security full version on my laptop, and have been trying the Mobile Security on my rooted Honeycomb (soon to be ICS) Toshiba Thrive 10 inch tablet, HTK55D.31.5 0003 (DaleNet OOM Rooted ROM) and overclocked at 1.336 currently. I will probably be installing avast! on my smartphone as well. I had another mobile AV product, but when I saw another Thrive Forums member's posts about avast, ( member Cooby here) I decided I liked that avast! has the firewall, which the other AV did not have. Now I just have to learn how to use the firewall effectively.
I'm pretty novice to all of this so I'm just trying out the features of the beta and learning how it operates. I've only begun to explore it. Here are a few things I like so far and some things I'm wondering about:
I have an app that I have denied the Contacts permission to with the Permissions Denied app. In Privacy Advisor, when I choose to be shown all apps that have access to Contacts, it shows me all apps that originally had that permission, even the one I have denied the permission to. However, when I click on the app's name, the list of privacy issues does not include access to contacts. So the true current state of the permissions on my system is being correctly reported there.
Application Management is very handy. Lots of info in one place. CPU & Memory usage, App Size,access to Privacy Advisor and one tap to get an app's system info, which In normally have to get to by going to: Settings>Applications>Manage Applications, scrolling to the app, and tapping on it. Like that feature a lot. Haven't tested anything there any further than getting aquainted.
To test Shield Control, I am using the stock browser on my Thrive, (which I otherwise never use) since Chrome isn't available to me until ICS comes to my device, and I don't use the other currently supported browsers. I normally use Dolphin HD and Opera Mobile. Are you planning to have support for those browsers? Pleeease
App Shield... is that by any chance the "on execution" scan? Where can I find the setting for allowing or disallowing scan on execution? I don't see it anywhere in settings, or under the "virus scanner" tab.
Message Shield.. I assume this is disabled in beta as well?
Phishing and Malicious Sites hasn' t turned up anything, but I assume they are working. Will attempt to go to some known Phishing sites later to test.
Site Correct works great. I typed in Web addresses incorrectly, and they were corrected automatically. The only question I have there... Am I assuming correctly that "automatically redirect" check box is disabled during beta? I assume so because the box was grayed out and I was not being asked before redirect, even though the box is not checked. This is getting long, so just a couple more questions and I'll leave you alone for now.
Saw one of the features is an avast widget? I have the notification icon but no widget in my widgets list.
Did I mess something up? In settings, under Updates I tapped "check for updates now" and said "update successful" and the version changed to read this: current version 120726-2 and next to that it said (in 5 hours). In my tablets "manage applications" version # is still listed as 2. 0. 2560
Thank you. If there's any way I can help just post or email me