avast! 4 Home Edition 4.7.981
Posted by Mihai Asmanow on 14 April 2007 - 18:58 · 11 comments & 4878 views
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#1 Posted by rnvrajagopal on 14 Apr 2007 - 20:37
- Thanks for the info
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#3 Posted by WebOrbiter on 14 Apr 2007 - 21:47
- Only anti-virus I use, best stuff out there for the money.
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#4 Posted by jegar48 on 14 Apr 2007 - 22:03
- the best free anti virus around.......better than most commercial packages.
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#5 Posted by tiagosilva29 on 14 Apr 2007 - 22:34
- Quote -added Macedonian, Croatian and Portuguese (not Brazil) language packs
Wow... that's lame. It's like kicking the portuguese translator in the nuts.
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#6 Posted by buletov on 15 Apr 2007 - 06:36
- avast! is a very nice and reliable piece of software.
I am glad to see this update...
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#7 Posted by Vettetech on 15 Apr 2007 - 13:55
- I tried this before. Looks too much like a media player and not a virus scan. Went with AVG instead.
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#7.1 Posted by eilegz on 16 Apr 2007 - 02:00
- agree in that one they need to work in the interface they got it worst than nod32
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#7.2 Posted by Joshua-San on 16 Apr 2007 - 08:42
- Media player interface?
(Sorry, it's Dutch)
You can disable the use of skins. Not a register hack or whatever, just a program setting.
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#8 Posted by Naughty Dog on 16 Apr 2007 - 09:33
- ZBest around, using it since version 4.6 and still going on pro.
Features overview of avast! Home Edition 4.7 :
* Antivirus kernel
* Automatic updates
* Simple User Interface
* Virus Chest
* Resident protection
* System integration
* P2P and IM Shields
* Integrated Virus Cleaner
* Network Shield
* Support for 64-bit Windows
* Web Shield
* Internationalization
Changelog Version 4.7.981, April 14, 2007
* fixed extra-long duration of the boot-time scan under Windows Vista
* WebShield: improved compatibility with Windows Vista
* WebShield: better support for HTTP method CONNECT in upstream proxy scenarios
* fixed a minor memory leak in aswrdr.sys
* auto-updates now use much less CPU resources (should not interfere with other CPU-intensive programs running on the computer, e.g. games)
* added a new unpacker: "installers"; useful especially for detection of malware droppers
* Outlook/Exchange provider: improved compatibility with Outlook 2007
* boot-time scanner: fix for the case when there's the /NOGUIBOOT option in boot.ini
* fixed a problem in Standard Shield under Windows Vista related to saving of Word 2007 documents on FAT partitions
* email alerts now use correct formatting even for non-Latin characters
* fixed a rare problem in Standard Shield related to handling of disk volumes mounted to NTFS directories
* further enhancements in executable unpackers
* fixed a bug in ZOO unpacker
* task scheduler: it's now possible to specify which days of week the task should run
* command-line scanner (ashCmd.exe) now supports a couple of more command-line options, mostly related to handling of infected files[/li]
* mail scanner: improved deleting of entire emails (virus embedded in email body)
* fixed opening of the sounds settings dialog under certain operating systems
* avast! screensaver now available even under Windows Vista 64-bit
* better detection of corrupted/modified VPS file
* WebShield: other minor fixes
* added Macedonian, Croatian and Portuguese (not Brazil) language packs