*** NEW PRE-RELEASE UPDATE 5.1.884 NOW AVAILABLE ***

[viper17]

Does this version finally solves the gamguard problem? I have tried .864 and .874 still no go for me so I have stayed at .6077. With .874 my online game would not start at all. Would appreciate sharing your experiences. Thank you.

[pk]

Does this version finally solves the gamguard problem? I have tried .864 and .874 still no go for me so I have stayed at .6077. With .874 my online game would not start at all. Would appreciate sharing your experiences. Thank you.

@viper17: yes, it supposed to be fixed in 874 build (with small correction in 884 build).
What is the game's name? What's your OS?

How does it behave in your system? The users complained avast service (ahResBhv.dll) crashes when they start playing the game - do you have the same problem or is it e.g. deadlock? Thanks.

[zakjunior]

Hello everybody

First of all i would like to thank you the great work for this antivirus progam.

My Name is Zak, I'm form Hungary. I use avast! free since about 4.3 or so... and i'm satisfied with it.
Yesterday I instaled 5.1.864 version wich the avast! client offered... restarted pc, and when welcome logo come out(I use Win XP Profesional SP3) i thought it might be some problem, it took about 15 min for XP to stand up, before update it was normaly 2-3 min. As i tought if everything works it would be ok.. but not. Sometimes when i used pc it freezed like i can use the mouse on the table but cannot use start menu canot click on icons, only 1-2 mins later. I checked the forums and see that not i was the first person with problems and tried out the 2 update( 5.1.874, 5.1.884 ) and still have same problems. And i read that some ppl have Game Guard problems, here are same problems too i tried with the client offered version and the other 2 i found up here, but still dont work for me. I play on Cabal Online Europe. I reinstaled the 5.0 version and everything is fine now.

I like avast! much i keep this old version up until you guys solve the problems or i wait for the 5.2 version or maybe the new 6.0.

Keep up the good work and thank you again, avast! saved me from lots of times to reinstall my pc

Sincerely
Zak

[Hexo]

Did you try a full clean reinstall?
btw: 24 hours are gone :-)

[Lisandro]

I wait for the 5.2 version or maybe the new 6.0.

Seems we won't have 5.2 but directly the 6.0.

[Hexo]

Yeah! Version 6 with a full working Behavior shield!

[YoKenny]

Yeah! Version 6 with a full working Behavior shield!

V5.1.884 working great for me with the free version on my Windows 7 system and my XP Pro system. 

[Hexo]

Well... the Behavior Shield works not correct (as i know)
It´s only analysing.
I am looking forward to a Shield which blocks really some stuff and do something for security on my machine.

[Dwarden]

so far so good ...
i had some weird BSODs before with 86x
but they all seems to be unconnected to avast!
yet after reading some of the changelogs in past builds ...
so will see if they repeats or not?

[zakjunior]

Did you try a full clean reinstall?
btw: 24 hours are gone :-)

Yes several times, regs cleaned out, but have same problems.
Yesterday almost all day long and today morning i tried to work on the problem.
After i tried everything then i wrote here what probs i had.

Sincerely
Zak

[Sparxx]

Well... the Behavior Shield works not correct (as i know)
It´s only analysing.
I am looking forward to a Shield which blocks really some stuff and do something for security on my machine.

As the avast devs said, it's now analyzing and sending them the results, so the real thing(this means auto deciding rule) to be soon implemented, if i'm  not wrong in  late Q1.

[viper17]

Does this version finally solves the gamguard problem? I have tried .864 and .874 still no go for me so I have stayed at .6077. With .874 my online game would not start at all. Would appreciate sharing your experiences. Thank you.

@viper17: yes, it supposed to be fixed in 874 build (with small correction in 884 build).
What is the game's name? What's your OS?

How does it behave in your system? The users complained avast service (ahResBhv.dll) crashes when they start playing the game - do you have the same problem or is it e.g. deadlock? Thanks.

Hi Sir, it's an online game Cabal (Philippine version). I installed .884 and still the game won't start. It only shows the gameguard splash screen then nothing happens anymore the game simply would not load. After a few minutes I access windows task manager and I can't even see the cabal executable running. I'm using Windows XP Pro SP3 with the latest updates installed. Now I'm back to .6077 and it's all running fine. Could it be that the game itself is what's conflicting with Avast and not gameguard?

[wonderwrench]

After 24 hrs I still had no behavior shield activity so I did a repair followed by a reboot and now the behavior shield is working again. I find no other problems with 5.1.884 so far. It seems to be a trend that updates fail to work correctly. IMO this is something that must be fixed.

Bill

I updated the rig in my sig from AIS 5.1.864 to 5.1.884 today and have since noticed I no longer have any behavior shield activity. I have rebooted several times throughout the day and nothing. When I was running 5.1.864 I always had activity in the statistics after a boot and several times a day during normal usage. Other shields seem to be working as I have activity. Has anyone else noticed the lack of activity with the behavior shield? I'm going to try a repair install and if needed a clean install and see what happens.

Bill
 

[pk]

Sibelius 6 keeps crashing with error 0xc0000005, even with avast v5.1.884, after uninstall of previous version and cleanup with avast tool in safe mode.
Sibelius works fine when Avast is uninstalled!

Windows 7 64bits

@ramolino: thanks for your post, I fixed the problem between avast+Sibelius and new program update will work like magic.


@viper17, thanks, downloading right now...

i had some weird BSODs before with 86x, but they all seems to be unconnected to avast!
yet after reading some of the changelogs in past builds ... so will see if they repeats or not?

@Dwarden, you can still send me the minidumps and I can confirm that - however, offical changelog isn't always full, a lot of minor fixes aren't included.

[burleymr07]

so much for this being pushed to everyone within 24 hours