[Wishlist] For avast! 8 - Suggestions and discussion

[Lisandro]

Well the WebRep does have the Phishing filter and also the SiteCorrect function embedded into it.

You're right. Sorry.

[khasa]

Sure. For this there are FileRep and behavior analysis, and also, the streaming updates of the virus definitions several times a day.

I know, and that's why I suggested even more improvements on this. Glad we can agree that signatures are not very effective on new malware.

You can search the forum and als the blog for FileRep. There are descriptions of how it works.
It's an automated process (you won't the statistic numbers but the final result on the AutoSandbox).

Again, I knew that already. My suggestion was to display the numbers too

[Para-Noid]

+1 I would love to see an Avast portable scanner too

Asked before... But would it worth? I mean, something like Stinger of McAfee...
We had "The Cleaner" tool of avast! but it was dropped a long time ago.
Drivers and services need to be running for protection and, also, for some specialized cleaning too.

I have an idea there would be more users than think more than willing to pay a small price for a portable scanner.
The actual scanner file would be relatively smaller than I would think. Most of my USB sticks are 8 GB so yes it would be worth it. 

[dilexman]

I would like to have "block all traffic/network" button in the firewall....
pls add this....

[essexboy]

There is one, right click the orange blob and select  "Enable Network Lock"

[securitest]

the virus definitions version: is yymmdd-(version)
eg: 121126-0 = 2012-11-26 '1st update of the day'     

Oh, right! I should have noticed that so many 1's and 2's where not here by accident.
However, partly due to the order problem (YMD, DMY, etc...), it's still rather useless in the 'Summary'>'Current Status' tab

[dilexman]

There is one, right click the orange blob and select  "Enable Network Lock"

Thanks essexboy !
But why It was so hidden from me...
at least it should be clearly displayed on firewall GUI area..
there's an aspect call 'Usablity' when it come to ranking....

[DavidR]

I don't know about hidden, it is one click (right click) away; avast has always had these kind of icon right click shortcuts for more common functions to avoid having to go into the UI to find them.

[LunarWolf]

I would like the ability of web rep to "Mark this page as Phishing" or other kind of dangerous tuff. Could be helpful.

[jefferson santiago]

I realize that by many users are having problems printing in SafeZone do avast internet security 1474, can not print the receipts of purchases and bank payments, statements of banking. I believe that the new version should fix this bug that already comes from the previous version avast.



the printer is not available or not installed your correctly.check printer or select another

[Andrey,pro]

Hello everyone!
I've got a new idea to add a feature to return to the previous virus definition update. It'll be very useful with false positives (some days ago it was a FP with tcpip.sys)

[DavidR]

Returning to the previous database won't resolve the problem if the user has deleted the file.

[chabbo]

avast 8 developers, need more coffe and a cake to it.
and it would be nice with somthing more cool like http://www.kaspersky.com/viruswatch3


Ks viruswatch!

[Andrey,pro]

Returning to the previous database won't resolve the problem if the user has deleted the file.

Hi, DavidR!
Of course it won't resolve the problem if the user has deleted the file, but if it will be a FP with system files, for example, users should choose 'ignore' and return to the previous database until this problem will not be fixed. What are you thinking about it?

[Lisandro]

Andrey, the problem would be then the false negative.
The user with an infected computer will think it is a false positive, return back to the old virus definitions, and the infection will do more harm then if it is get blocked by the new definitions.
I think false positives (specially system ones) should be addressed by the streaming updates. I could not understand why it took so long to correct the recent tcpip.sys false positive on XP machines... Poor user experience.