Avast! Home/Pro 4.8 officialy released

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[Goose18]

you sure it has heuristics? Cause i asked if it did (on the avast forum) and they said they were trying to put it into Avast 5..... 

[sded]

Avast! 4 uses heuristics to support the email scanner, but has only limited capabilities otherwise.

[Júštiñ™]

Upgraded to avast! 4.8. Not many changes to the actual program that you can notice. I'm glad they were able to add keylogger protection and spyware protection though. Hopefully version 5 will be released soon

[blattida]

Upgraded to avast! 4.8. Not many changes to the actual program that you can notice. I'm glad they were able to add keylogger protection and spyware protection though. Hopefully version 5 will be released soon

Very soon...this summer... the brand new avast 5 is arrive... or not... 

[Jahn]

Very soon...this summer... the brand new avast 5 is arrive... or not... 

I hope you're right. I need secure e-mail scanning, and can't figure out Stunnel! 

[Rednose]

There is a pre-release version of the upcoming Avast! update (4.8.1178)

There is a number of fixes in this release. Here's an (incomplete) list:

- solved incompatibility of the avast self protection module and the System Restore feature (Windows XP/Vista)
- solved keyboard/mouse lags in some games (e.g. World of Warcraft)
- "Quick" scan now quick again (in the previous version, it was usually slower than "Normal" scan)
- fixed deleting of infected files in some nested archives
- shell extension: under Windows Vista, shortcut targets are now correctly scanned
- boot-time scanner now correctly displays warning messages about corrupted archives
- improved scanning speed in the Simple user interface- improved handling of scan exceptions
- self protection: improved detection of changes in the INI file
- start of the "avast! Mail Scanner" service should now be fast again
- fixed a problem with avast being installed in a directory with name containing non-Latin characters
- fixed entering of the license key (didn't work in certain configurations)
- improved detection/healing of MBR rootkits
- avast can now correctly handle the case when the INI file is missing/corrupted
- the "Disable startup rootkit scan" option on the Troubleshooting page now effective (in the previous version, it was ignored)

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=34612.msg290254#msg290254

Be sure to follow the right installation instructions !

Greetz, Red.

[Goose18]

Updated and working great 

[fazio93]

There is a pre-release version of the upcoming Avast! update (4.8.1178)

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=34612.msg290254#msg290254

Be sure to follow the right installation instructions !

Greetz, Red.

yes, it has fixed many of the problems with the original 4.8

[avguste]

I am currently using the Comodo anti-virus and have no problems so far.
Is avast 4.8 better than Comodo?

[Vettetech]

Comodo AV is still in beta and yes Avast 4.8 is betetr.

[fazio93]

Comodo AV is still in beta and yes Avast 4.8 is betetr.

yes. much better, but nothing beats CFP.

[LeoniAquila]

Do you guys prefer the skin(s) of avast? I couldn't stand them, but I found the simple GUI to be quite nice. Although I didn't like that not all settings were gathered in the same place. A little bit messy. CAVS 2 beta has the best organized interface I've ever seen! (comparing to avast, Avira and NOD32).

LA

[Goose18]

I prefer the media player skin on Avast. Ive used it for 3 years now and still prefer that skin over other AV's 

[LeoniAquila]

I prefer the media player skin on Avast. Ive used it for 3 years now and still prefer that skin over other AV's 

OK
LA

[Rednose]

Personaly I like the Blue eXPe skin



Although I don't see it on the Avast! site anymore, it is still there :

http://files.avast.com/files/skins/blue_expe.aswcs

Greetz, Red.

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