Upgrading to 1456

[z8000783]

After the altercation with the upgrade from 1426 and me losing about 2 days trying to find out why my normally reliable machine was crashing, I am now being nagged to upgrade my 2 laptops to 1456.

Up to now I have been reluctant to do this and in any case, all of our PC's were secure before the upgrade weren't they? I presume I am still receiving virus updates and my Avast installation seems quite happy.

So the question is, what am I missing out on? Is it simply a few benefits most of which I turned off any way as they were intrusive, or are there some security issues I need to be mindful of.

John

[schmidthouse]

After the altercation with the upgrade from 1426 and me losing about 2 days trying to find out why my normally reliable machine was crashing, I am now being nagged to upgrade my 2 laptops to 1456.

Up to now I have been reluctant to do this and in any case, all of our PC's were secure before the upgrade weren't they? I presume I am still receiving virus updates and my Avast installation seems quite happy.

So the question is, what am I missing out on? Is it simply a few benefits most of which I turned off any way as they were intrusive, or are there some security issues I need to be mindful of.

John

Anytime I start 'disabling' turning off components designed for a specific program, for a specific purpose (by a Code specialist) which I am not; I accept the 'increased possibility' of System compromise.
Level of Security = a % of Intrusion! 

[z8000783]

Thanks for that.

Are there any other features of 1456 I shouldn't do without over and above 1426?

John

[DavidR]

Essentially the two versions features wise are the same, there may well be optimisations/improvements and or bug fixes in the later builds. So what ever features and functions (shields, etc.) that you used in 7.0.1426 you should use in 7.0.1456.

You may want to consider a clean install rather than an update install (export your settings first to save any changes you made), for those that had any problem with 7.0.1456 (I didn't, luck me) seemed to be related to an update rather than a clean install.

- Download the latest version of avast, 7.0.1456 http://files.avast.com/iavs5x/avast_free_antivirus_setup.exe and save it to your HDD, somewhere you can find it again (if you didn't save your last download). Use that when you reinstall.

- Download the avast! Uninstall Utility, aswClear.exe find it here and save it to your HDD (it has uninstall tools for 5.x, 6.0.x and 7.0.x).

• 1. Now uninstall avast! (using add remove programs, if you can't do that start from the next step), reboot.
• 2. run the avast! Uninstall Utility from safe mode, first for 6.x if previously installed and then for 7.0, once complete reboot into normal mode.
• 3. install the latest version, reboot.

[z8000783]

Thanks David, I'll think about it.

It does not sound like an urgent upgrade though.

John

[DavidR]

You're welcome.

Personally I wouldn't non-urgent, given my comment on improvements/bug fixes, etc. see http://www.avast.com/release-history.

Your system your choice.

There is a beta version in testing currently.

[z8000783]

Of course.

A beta version of what?

John

[Asyn]

A beta version of what?

-> http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=102720.0

[z8000783]

Thanks Asyn.

[Asyn]

Thanks Asyn.

You're welcome.