Avast! Antivirus V5 Final released

SnoopZ · 19-01-2010, 18:20

Avast! Antivirus Free V5 has finally been released along with their paid for internet security suite.

http://www.avast.com/index

Welshchris · 19-01-2010, 19:34

I just installed it and works fine after 20 mins of fiddling...

Beware not to update and to remove previous versions, i did an update from 4.8 to 5 and i couldnt get realtime scanner online, so i had to uninstall 5 and also use the 4.8 removal tool and then reinstall 5.

All seems well atm.

SnoopZ · 19-01-2010, 19:55

If you use newsgroups you should turn off newsgroup scanning in the mail settings.

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Also 1 of the bugs that was in the Beta is still around. After an install the tray icon may not show, however deselecting that option and re enabling fixes it.

Welshchris · 19-01-2010, 20:18

not had those problems thankfully.

SnoopZ · 19-01-2010, 20:25

If you download alot of newsgroups then if scanning is set for that then it'll slow things down considerably.

Welshchris · 20-01-2010, 14:11

i quite like the new voice they have for saying virus database has been updated. It does sound so computerized.

SnoopZ · 20-01-2010, 15:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by Welshchris

i quite like the new voice they have for saying virus database has been updated. It does sound so computerized.

The first thing i did when i started using the Beta months ago is turn off all voices.

Welshchris · 26-01-2010, 08:44

had a strange issue with Avast last nite, i had a message saying that it found a Virus on a file on one of my partitions and it could possibly be in the memory and to restart and do a realtime boot scan which it did. It found NO! problems on my C Drive what so ever yet for some reason windows needed reactivating.