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JohnnyBob

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bugs on avast website
« on: July 20, 2011, 07:47:26 AM »
FYI: You have a website bug at
http://www.avast.com/en-us/support#tab1

Please choose your product to continue
    * Free Antivirus
    * Internet Security
    * Pro Antivirus
    * Business Products

When I leftclick on the other tabs nothing happens. For example the links to http://www.avast.com/en-us/support#tab2 http://www.avast.com/en-us/support#tab3 and http://www.avast.com/en-us/support#tab4 are failing to connect. Only if I rightclick and open the link in a new browser tab or window, then it works correctly.

I've tried it with Firefox, Chrome, and Opera browsers with the same problem. I'm running XP SP3 with all the latest updates, as you can see in my signature.

I've noticed this bug elsewhere on your website too, wherever you have links involving tabs with a # character near the end. They are not connecting properly.

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Re: bugs on avast website
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2011, 08:07:20 AM »
Thats working fine here with Opera at the moment.

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Re: bugs on avast website
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2011, 08:14:50 AM »
works fine her also...... Opera and IE9

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Re: bugs on avast website
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2011, 08:44:23 AM »
Thanks for the feedback. I tried it with a different computer running XP Pro and it works OK. So it's either a bug specific to XP Home SP3, or my XP Home SP3 computer has problems. I don't know which, at this point, but suspect the latter. That installation is almost 4 years old and may have accumulated too many quirks. Might be time for a reformat and clean install of op system. Sorry to bother you with my local problem. Cheers.

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Re: bugs on avast website
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2011, 03:07:36 PM »
No problem here with FF 5.0 and XP Pro SP3
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Re: bugs on avast website
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2011, 12:59:29 AM »
Click whichever tab you want and if nothing happens then simply Ctrl+R (refresh) the page. It happens to me too (only in Avast website) using either Opera or Firefox (no problem in IE9, though).

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Re: bugs on avast website
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2011, 01:26:18 PM »
After making my initial post to this thread, I reinstalled my XP Home SP3 op system and those tabs were working correctly afterwards (yesterday) with Firefox 3.6.18. So thought I had fixed it, but strangely the same problem has returned today. :'( I'm baffled by that observation, except that I've subsequently reinstalled various other application software so something might be incompatible. It doesn't work correctly with Internet Explorer 6 either on that computer.

DarkMaster's suggestion to press the Ctrl-R keyboard keys after left-clicking the tab works with both Firefox and IE6, as does my former suggestion to rightclick and open in a new tab or window. FWIW, that XP Home SP3 computer uses free avast antivirus as shown in my signature, and disabling the avast antivirus software temporarily has no affect. I want to try again (when I can find the time) after uninstalling the scripts shield, and disabling the sandbox, which have caused me various other problems in the past. Contrary to my signature below, I currently have those modules/features installed and active.

I also tried again with another computer which uses Windows XP Pro with Firefox 3.6.10, Chrome 12.0.742.122, Safari 5.0.2, and Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.187002IC. They all work OK. This computer runs the free avira antivirus software rather than avast, and is very different in the other installed software applications. It's a borrowed computer, not mine.

So in my limited testing, this bug appears *not* to be browser related. It is specific to a particular computer, and believe it could either be hardware or software related. I also wonder if there's any chance that the server software used to render the avast website has some prejudices built-in, so that it likes certain hardware or software better than others.

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Re: bugs on avast website
« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2011, 04:55:40 PM »
Me i did find one on the french canadian page at business products on support. Its got J" > its should be translated or corrected this...

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Re: bugs on avast website
« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2011, 05:01:50 PM »
http://www.avast.com/en-ca/free-antivirus-download This site where I first tried to download my copy of Avast free is buggy. Your only option is to buy AIS. I had to resort to CNET download. I went to the site through a Google Search. :'(

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Re: bugs on avast website
« Reply #9 on: July 22, 2011, 06:21:58 PM »
http://www.avast.com/en-ca/free-antivirus-download This site where I first tried to download my copy of Avast free is buggy. Your only option is to buy AIS. I had to resort to CNET download. I went to the site through a Google Search. :'(
The download for the free version via the link you supplied works fine.

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Re: bugs on avast website
« Reply #10 on: July 22, 2011, 06:47:19 PM »
http://www.avast.com/en-ca/free-antivirus-download This site where I first tried to download my copy of Avast free is buggy. Your only option is to buy AIS. I had to resort to CNET download. I went to the site through a Google Search. :'(
The download for the free version via the link you supplied works fine.
It works for you, but it doesn't work for me or gdiloren. It pops up a box where the "No thanks, I want free protection" button is inoperative.

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Re: bugs on avast website
« Reply #11 on: July 22, 2011, 07:25:35 PM »
http://www.avast.com/en-ca/free-antivirus-download This site where I first tried to download my copy of Avast free is buggy. Your only option is to buy AIS. I had to resort to CNET download. I went to the site through a Google Search. :'(
The download for the free version via the link you supplied works fine.
It works for you, but it doesn't work for me or gdiloren. It pops up a box where the "No thanks, I want free protection" button is inoperative.
If you click on it and wait a little while it will work, the button doesn't seem to do anything but it eventually sent me to the next page.

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Re: bugs on avast website
« Reply #12 on: July 22, 2011, 07:35:42 PM »
http://www.avast.com/en-ca/free-antivirus-download This site where I first tried to download my copy of Avast free is buggy. Your only option is to buy AIS. I had to resort to CNET download. I went to the site through a Google Search. :'(
The download for the free version via the link you supplied works fine.
It works for you, but it doesn't work for me or gdiloren. It pops up a box where the "No thanks, I want free protection" button is inoperative.
If you click on it and wait a little while it will work, the button doesn't seem to do anything but it eventually sent me to the next page.
The pop-up "Check out our feature-rich antivirus – with great savings!" has no link when you mouse over the grayed "no, thanks" button. I'm ashamed Avast is using such low modes of marketing! It's fishing technics and we are the fishes!
« Last Edit: July 22, 2011, 07:38:18 PM by gdiloren »

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Re: bugs on avast website
« Reply #13 on: July 22, 2011, 07:45:39 PM »
Did you click on it and wait, iv tried it on three systems here XP AND TWO WIN 7'S and it does work.                                                                                           Avast is not implementing fishing techniques so dont be ridiculous.

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Re: bugs on avast website
« Reply #14 on: July 22, 2011, 08:07:33 PM »
Thanks for the feedback. I tried it with a different computer running XP Pro and it works OK. So it's either a bug specific to XP Home SP3, or my XP Home SP3 computer has problems. I don't know which, at this point, but suspect the latter. That installation is almost 4 years old and may have accumulated too many quirks. Might be time for a reformat and clean install of op system. Sorry to bother you with my local problem. Cheers.
Have you tried to clean your HDD? You might want to try CCleaner.
http://filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/ 
Or WinUtilities Free http://download.cnet.com/WinUtilities-Free-Edition/3000-18512_4-75021441.html  :)
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