Program update 7.0.1451

[Asyn]

...however it BBSOD a friend's computer however once we uninstalled MSE it fixed it as well.

Well, no surprise then.

[bob3160]

You make a good point Bob, I would hardly call what I had an issue as well.  So I suppose I've never really had a problem with Avast, however it BBSOD a friend's computer however once we uninstalled MSE it fixed it as well.

Rule #1 Never install any  AV without totally removing the one that's currently on your system. 

[EmoHobo]

...however it BBSOD a friend's computer however once we uninstalled MSE it fixed it as well.

Well, no surprise then.

Yeah it was the easiest time I ever had fixing someone's computer, I asked him before he updated if he had MSE and he was like "No, I don't even know what that is." needless to say he had it and came to me the next day complaining about Avast.

[DavidR]

I never looked into it until the Avast 7 update but it seems like with every update since then, there has only been two, that it causes a lot of people problems with their computer, has it always been this way?  Because I had trouble with Avast 7, although it wasn't a clean install, it was a very minor problem where the "Finish your upgrade" or whatever screen appeared every time.  It was fixed by changing a .ini file.

But now I see everytime there is an update about BSODs, people's internet not working and Avast just acting weird.  Has this always been a thing with updates and I just never noticed before?

Hardly surprising when monitoring a support forum, people without problem rarely if ever pay a visit. Then you have to balance that against the user base (and the variety of OSes and software installed) as Bob mentions.

[cynderella28]

Just updated.  No problems so far.   

[fragman]

I did a fresh custom install and everything seems to be working except for one problem. There is no "Additional Protection" bar in the GUI.

During my custom install, I unchecked three shields I don't need (Email, P2P, and IM) and unchecked the second column that contains the Web Rep and Remote Assistance entries.

[RejZoR]

This is a bit idiotiq. Auto Sandbox is still spawning 3 popups for every test file that i download. If you click Continue executing in all 3 it adds 3 identical entries to the exclusion list. Fail much? Also 2 of the popups ALWAYS have runtime of 0:00, the third one actually is running.

And despite Igor convincing us that we are all wrong, Auto Sandbox identifies exactly nothing.

[Nesivos]

confirming what Nesivos said, no traffic history in Win8/RP 

Win8 RC contains a newer embedded Flash player, which is not compatible with avast. We loaded this module, but it refuses to display our data. We'll look at it later, it wasn't so critical...

RFLMAO 

That is an understatement. Anyway, glad avast! folks will take a look at it.  Thanks for the response.

[naren17]

Upgraded from 1426 to this version manually i.e within Avast GUI checked for program updates on Win 7 64. Upgraded smooth & fine.

No other security software realtime installed. Only Windows FW & Avast.

Only 1 prob. During boot after entering password the screen goes black for app 8 secs. With previous version this was not happening.


Updated - Ok only 1st restart gave me that black screen. Further restart were fine. So the prob is solved here.

[Nesivos]

Just curious

Was anything done in this version to improve memory handling with regard to W8-RP?  Like I posted earlier, scans are faster and Firefox is dong a lot better job of not leaking memory since the update.

P.S. For Firefox beta users:

I hate that new "New Tab Thumbnail" feature in Firefox.  It sucks memory like Pacman eats up his opponents.   I replaced it with a Firefox addon about a week ago, "New Tab Homepage".  This also saves a lot of memory and keeps Firefox running fluidly even after a few hours of heavy browsing.  I highly recommend Firefox users take a look at it if they are finding they have a memory issue and are using a Firefox version with the "New Tab Thumbnails" feature

[Hermite15]

hmm guys ... I wouldn't mind some feedback about my mail shield + Gmail/SMTP in Thunderbird issue here http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=100247.msg801287#msg801287

.. thanks

edit: of course getting the same error with Windows Live Mail

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The message could not be sent because the server rejected the sender's email address. The sender's email address was 'xxxxxxxxx@gmail.com'.
Subject 'test'
Server Error: 530
Server Response: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. p41sm9654988eef.5
Server: 'smtp.gmail.com'
Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x800CCC78
Protocol: SMTP
Port: 587
Secure(SSL): No

[George Yves]

I don't know if it was mentioned but XP users get BSODs when this version meets trojans. I personally saw such crashes today when I upgraded Avast for my several friends. The crashes occured when I tried to open in Windows Explorer some USBs with files, infected by trojans. But if I first scanned the USBs and then deleted the infected files from the scan results, I could open them in Windows Explorer.

[Gap51]

Can't get access to MS Store, Mail, People applications....
Everything is OK when Avast (AIS) is turned off.
(Win8x64 rp)

[pk]

I don't know if it was mentioned but XP users get BSODs when this version meets trojans. I personally saw such crashes today when I upgraded Avast for my several friends. The crashes occured when I tried to open in Windows Explorer some USBs with files, infected by trojans. But if I first scanned the USBs and then deleted the infected files from the scan results, I could open them in Windows Explorer.

Please send me latest minidump file, thanks.

@Nesivos: there was a mem leak in 1441/1443 builds, it was fixed in 1451.

@RejZoR: can you please provide me a link for this app? thanks.

[Hermite15]

@ pk again , what's this SMTP error with Gmail? thx