I'm curious: I just ordered my license for gdata's antivirenkit 2007 (avk) - will any of the new avast!5 technology be implemented in this or any version of the avk?
Right now, the capabilities of the avast! engine in AVK is identical to the one in avast! itself (possibly with small variations due to different build versions). What happens in the future, it's hard to forecast, of course
However, avast! engine in AVK is really just the scanning engine (unpackers + detection) - so I don't think these high-level features, such as protecting avast! processes, would be included there. AVK programmers handle this kind of things themselves (which means that AVK might already include it, don't know).
When can we expect avast! 5 to hit the shelves? (Figuratively speaking, of course)
Unknown yet, i.e. not very soon.