The page will not be down as such as first you have to have created an account, there should be a sign in or Create Account option from https link that I gave. Once you have an account, then you can link your avast installations to it.
Do you not see anything when using the link I gave ?
See attached to see what Jack 1000 may be seeing below. As I do not have an Avast! account ATM, that fact alone may account for this. Or, maybe, the server is really down?
No,
I just got the IE 8 response, "Page cannot be displayed." I opened up the Avast GUI just to see what it looks like. Now, I don't have a "My Avast Account" like I said, so take this with a grain of salt. But it looks like there is going to be an extra step in the On-Line Registration process. Instead of:
1.) Clicking on Register, and filling out the form, with your name and e-mail address and, 'Why did you choose Avast" you click on that form and get your license.
NOW
2.) With clean, new installs of this latest version of Avast 7 after you fill out the form, the button to get your license is going to require a user name and password and than when you click the get license button, you will also have access to Avast services.
I think it is sort of like, you know you can register Avast Off-Line as well? This added step I assume is going to allow better e-mail communication for licensing information. I don't think this applies to installing over a previous version of Avast through a GUI or Program notice update. This is just for new clean installs. My guess is that Avast wants to make people better aware of the Account Services in version 7 through this process.
I guess my question is, what specific advantages does Avast get from the user of this account feature? Another question is what will the Avast customer be able to do through Account Services in the GUI that they could not do before in previous versions? In short, what makes this added registration step worthwhile? (for Avast and the user?)
That's a great question above! How would business, educational, and government institutions who have worked with Avast for years, use this system if they have thousands to potentially hundreds of thousands to millions of people on a mainframe network? I don't know if a network admin is going to be thrilled about given out individualized accounts, where many users may need to use a single computer throughout the day. How will this system deal with fresh installs for business and commercial environments?
Jack
