New AVAST 8!

[detmek]

Just to say thanks. Avast 8 Free works very stable. No problems so far.

[tommls]

Today I bought Avast Internet Security 7.x on sale from the DownloadCrew website and received a key.
Do I need a new key to use Internet Security 8.x??
Thank you, Tom

[DavidR]

No the key should be good for avast 8 also, provided it is a legit license.

Though this doesn't appear to be a good deal, currently if you had avast 8 free installed and used the market link a 3 PC license id only £24.99. I don't know if htis is a specific offer with discount from the free version.

[Coyote76]

I also have a green screen with Flash video's. Card: AMD 5770, Windows 7 64-bit, driver: AMD 13.1. Flash player version: 11.6.602.171. Browser both IE10 and Firefox 19.

Screenshot of the problem as attachment:

[Staticguy]

Downloaded new avast 8. May be a possible bug?
1 pressed scan button & selected select folder to scan ie windows folder only. Scan running as normal.
2.Pressed scan computer tab by accident and quick scan started running??. Ie TWO VIRUS SCANS STARTED TO RUN!!!! Had to stop one of them. Otherwise running great!

At the scan now tab for each type of scan: quick, full, removable media scan, select scan to folder, boot-time scan. If u click more details for each one of them at the left side of that you will see a tick-box saying default scan. I think you should un-tick it?

[tommls]

No the key should be good for avast 8 also, provided it is a legit license.

Though this doesn't appear to be a good deal, currently if you had avast 8 free installed and used the market link a 3 PC license id only £24.99. I don't know if htis is a specific offer with discount from the free version.

http://store.downloadcrew.com/p29366-avast_internet_security_7_3-pc, probably expired by now, original source betanews.com
It was $41.99 from here, about the same as 25 pounds...
Thank you, Tom

[Gopher John]

I've updated both machines in my signature today from AIS 7.0.1474 to AIS 7.0.1482 via the AvastUI.  On both machines, it imported my settings and registration.  I've done Quick and Full scans (Win7 Full scan in progress now).  All went well, along with browsing and other internet programs.  If anything, AIS 8 seems faster than AIS7 on browsing.  I'm still getting used to the new interface; finding out where some of the items have been moved.  To be fair, I'll withhold judgement on the interface changes until I've totally (Is that possible?) familiarized myself.  Sometimes, though, I just have to ask myself why there.  It is what it is.

Overall, and especially with all the changes, Good Job, Avast.

[Charyb-0]

aswclear has not been updated at avast.com

Obtain v8 aswclear from here. -> http://files.avast.com/test5beta/aswclear.exe

[DavidR]

No the key should be good for avast 8 also, provided it is a legit license.

Though this doesn't appear to be a good deal, currently if you had avast 8 free installed and used the market link a 3 PC license id only £24.99. I don't know if htis is a specific offer with discount from the free version.

http://store.downloadcrew.com/p29366-avast_internet_security_7_3-pc
It was $41.99 from here, about the same as 25 pounds...
Thank you, Tom

You're welcome.

Yes I went to the DownloadCrew website and that showed my currency and the offer was bad, £23.99 and it was only for 1PC.

[Gopher John]

aswclear has not been updated at avast.com

It's stuck on the beta downloads.  It should be updated soon.

http://files.avast.com/test5beta/aswclear.exe

[tommls]

No the key should be good for avast 8 also, provided it is a legit license.

Though this doesn't appear to be a good deal, currently if you had avast 8 free installed and used the market link a 3 PC license id only £24.99. I don't know if htis is a specific offer with discount from the free version.

http://store.downloadcrew.com/p29366-avast_internet_security_7_3-pc
It was $41.99 from here, about the same as 25 pounds...
Thank you, Tom

You're welcome.

Yes I went to the DownloadCrew website and that showed my currency and the offer was bad, £23.99 and it was only for 1PC.

It had 2+ hours to go on expiry when I purchased -- I got 3 PCs for one year...
This BetaNews article is how I found it -- you'll see the mention of $41.99/3 PCs:
"The avast! products were also added to the store through January. Within avast! 8 around the corner, buy avast! 7 products now and you’ll get a free upgrade to avast! 8, on release, in March. avast! Internet Security 7 [3-PC] will safeguard three computers, for $41.99, or 40 percent off MSRP. The more basic avast! Pro 7 [1-PC] is yours for $23.99, again 40 percent off MSRP."

Thank you, Tom

[100%]

I also have a green screen with Flash video's. Card: AMD 5770, Windows 7 64-bit, driver: AMD 13.1. Flash player version: 11.6.602.171. Browser both IE10 and Firefox 19.

Same here. This problem needs a separate thread.

EDIT: Only disabling hardware acceleration in Flash Player seems to help.

[Para-Noid]

At the scan now tab for each type of scan: quick, full, removable media scan, select scan to folder, boot-time scan. If u click more details for each one of them at the left side of that you will see a tick-box saying default scan. I think you should un-tick it?

There is no reason to "untick" any scan as having a default scan is a good thing. I have the quick scan as my default.
All a user needs to do is GUI>Anti-Virus>Scan Now, if they don't want to start a default scan. Any user has at their discretion the ability to select which scan they want as a default scan. A user may, if they so desire, create a custom scan and use that as their default scan. It's something new and positive with v8.0.xxxx and I like that. It's just that avast has pre-selected the quick scan as a default because it's the quickest scan available. 

edit: If the user fails to select a default scan avast automatically selects the quick scan. No matter what there will be a default scan. 

[Coyote76]

I noticed one thing about password protection: it's protecting all settings except the Cloud intelligence settings. You can disable them without a password (if password is set).

[jcoltrane]

In the middle of running a FULL SCAN (AVAST! 8 FREE). In last rel ver of AVAST! (7.xxx), the values for TESTED FILES/FOLDERS were properly updated during the scan. In V8, the FOLDERS value is "stuck" at 1 though MANY folders (and over 14GB worth of data) have been scanned at this point .

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