* Introducing * - beta version of upcoming avast update (NOW 4.7.979)

[y2kboy23]

It only happens on the Silver Panel skin.  When using the szc-kde skin, it works just fine. 

So I ran a complete scan tonight and noticed a visual bug when you idea over the Simple User Interface and the the window preview, there is a blue border on two sides that shouldn't be there.  I'm using Vista Business 32-bit.  Screenshot is attached.

I can't resize the screenshot to see, but does this occur with other skins?

[rbeane]

Very minor issue but thought I'd mention it...
With 4.7.971, I get an Unknown Error cannot open sound control panel with Vista HP under program settings-sounds-settings button.  It happens on cancel of the next dialogbox.

I don't know if it happened under the prior version.

[Vlk]

With 4.7.971, I get an Unknown Error cannot open sound control panel with Vista HP under program settings-sounds-settings button.  It happens on cancel of the next dialogbox.

I assume you're using 64-bit version of Windows...? If so, you're right, this should be fixed in the official update.

Thanks
Vlk

[rbeane]

Actually 32 bit.  I should have put that. 

[igor]

Well, starting of the Sound Control Panel applet will be improved in the next beta update... so please check if the problem is solved when you get it (should be soon... maybe tomorrow?)

[rbeane]

Thanks just wanted to mention in case it slipped by.  Thanks for the great work.

[mouniernetwork]

Well, starting of the Sound Control Panel applet will be improved in the next beta update... so please check if the problem is solved when you get it (should be soon... maybe tomorrow?)

I'm looking ofrward to it 

Keep up the good work 

Al968

[rayi7332]

Why twice? What happened after the first reboot?
Btw, what's this "Windows 98 Millennium Edition" in your signature? So it is Win98, or WinME?

Hello. When avast! first installed my icons in Explorer and Quick Launch went away. The placeholder, text tip, and functionality remained, just no icons. Merely an annoyance, so a reboot fixed it. Then after setting options, same thing again until reboot, now everything's good. Windows 98SE with several system files, dll's, and system tools from Millennium Edition cd. Much faster and more stable 98SE. Updated the Visual C,Visual Basic Runtimes, removed Windows scripting,  MS Java, Internet Explorer (except MSHTML and files needed by programs that look for IE), and Outlook. All Microsoft patches and a few third party patches. This configuration will not run script viruses and prevents drive by downloads. Nothing launches automagically, so far. If you want a malware sample you must go find it and deliberately download it so as to work with it.

[alanrf]

An observation from my weekly scan.

Running two fully up to date Win XP SP2 systems side by side.  One machine has avast 4.7.971 installed and the other has avast 4.7.942 both machines have VPS 731-0.

I have the same version of Executive Software's Diskeeper (8.0.459.0) on both machines - this version dates from 2003 and has been installed since then.

On the machine with the beta version running the file DSK2-BUS.exe is now being reported as Win32:Adware-gen. [Adw]

On the machine with the current production version of avast the same file produces no Adware warning.

If I use the avast beta machine to scan the same file across the network then it (consistently) reports the file on the other machine as Adware too. 

Seems to indicate a difference in processing by the new beta is throwing up this false positive.     

[mouniernetwork]

That's probably with the addition of the new unpackers 
But a false possitive. 

Al968

[alanrf]

That's probably with the addition of the new unpackers

My thought too. 

However, if it goes to production like this there will, no doubt, be some unhappy Diskeeper users.

[DavidR]

I trust you have sent the sample noting the FP and you are using the beta with new packers 

[Thomas123]

Hi, everyone.

I just installed the beta on my Windows Vista Business machine and am greatly satisfied with the memory usage improvement.

It usually consumes between 10 - 20 MB memory (private working set), which is a good thing.

But, I notice something wrong for avast! Web Scanner process.

After I surfed the web for an hour and closed my Opera browser, I opened Task Manager and saw that avast! Web Scanner process consumed 50% CPU usage constantly.

Even though the computer was idle, the CPU usage did not go down.

[DavidR]

I have had one occasion (a couple of days ago) were CPU usage was at 100% were the web shield was consuming virtually all of it. Even after disconnecting it remained at that figure, terminating the web shield didn't resolve it as ashWebSv.exe was still showing near 100% usage (98% with the remainder Task Manager).

I opened the Administrator Tools, Services and stopped the service and restarted it, I then started the Web Shield provider and everything was back to normal and I have had no recurrence of the problem. You could of course use Task Manager to End Task or reboot which should restore things to normal.

I have no idea why the high CPU usage I wasn't doing anything other than standard browsing  no downloads, etc. I put it down to a hiccup that hung web shield if it was replicable or a regular occurrence I would be concerned.

[DavidR]

No point, this was three days ago and it hasn't occurred again, if it were a regular occurrence then logging would be worth while. I ignore most problems 1st time out (not just for avast, with very few problems I the 3 years I have been using it) and just resolve it not waste time trying to find exactly why it happened, bt once it becomes more frequent then the time is worth it.

My post was more in response to Thomas123's post and to show what I did to resolve it.