I finally broke down and purchased AIS

[wonderwrench]

I have used Avast home/free for years and decided it was time to buy AIS and give something back. I'm very impressed so far. I had zero problems upgrading from Avast 5 free to AIS on my three Windows 7 64 bit PC's. Made the purchase got my license and had the first PC registered and updated to AIS in under 10 minutes. The upgrade process was smooth as silk. It could not have been easier. I can't wait until 5.1 comes out!

Bill

[Lisandro]

It's always comfortable to receive a positive feedback

[Hermite15]

yeah, gotta say that a straight good report after a brand new upgrade to AIS ... I'm pleasantly surprised

edit: contrasting with this sort of report:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=63689.msg538342#msg538342

[jadinolf]

I have used Avast home/free for years and decided it was time to buy AIS and give something back. I'm very impressed so far. I had zero problems upgrading from Avast 5 free to AIS on my three Windows 7 64 bit PC's. Made the purchase got my license and had the first PC registered and updated to AIS in under 10 minutes. The upgrade process was smooth as silk. It could not have been easier. I can't wait until 5.1 comes out!

Bill

You made a good purchase.

[wonderwrench]

Update: I had a chance to play around with the sandbox and it seems to work OK with FF. I'm not a big fan what you have to go through to launch FF in the sandbox though. It would be nice to be able to launch stuff pinned to the taskbar sandboxed. Looks to be a limitation in windows 7 it self so I doubt anything can be done about it. I know I can setup FF to always run sandboxed but I'm not ready for that yet. I was expecting a heavier feel to AIS but I can't tell any difference from the free version.

Bill

[Lisandro]

It would be nice to be able to launch stuff pinned to the taskbar sandboxed. Looks to be a limitation in windows 7 it self so I doubt anything can be done about it.

You can add FF to the always sandboxed applications into avast settings.
You can't make (yet) a command line link to a sandboxed application.

[wonderwrench]

Its been a month and I'd like to report AIS has been 100% trouble free on all three of my Windows 7 64 bit PC's. I still can hardly believe how easy it was to upgrade from free to IS. All I can say is flawless!

Bill