Gisteren heeft Alwill Software versie 4.7.817 van het antivirusprogramma Avast! uitgebracht. Het programma is beschikbaar in een Profesional Edition en een gratis Home Edition. Het verschil tussen de twee is onder andere een uitgebreidere interface, script blocking en push-updates, maar een compleet overzicht kan op deze pagina gevonden worden. Avast! Home Edition kan in verschillende talen worden neergehaald, waaronder in het Nederlands en Engels en weegt iets meer dan 10MB. Het changelog van deze release laat de volgende veranderingen zien:
Changes in version 4.7.817:[break]
- Standard Shield: by default, system DLLs are not scanned anymore (speed optimization)
- further improved Standard Shield speed under Windows XP (generally, less files are scanned)
- Standard Shield: improved compatibility with Microsoft Office (particularly, saving of Excel documents on network shares)
- mail scanner now doesn't show Timeout Expired messages; the program was modified so that the respective timeout can be controlled by the mail client itself
- mail scanner: solved problem with the mail client reporting expired timeouts when sending larger emails via slow connectections
- mail scanner: fixed problem with delays during IP address reverse-lookup
- mail scanner: fixed displaying of tray icon
- P2P Shield: added support for Winny2 and Google Talk
- Web Shield: improved compatibility with Win9x
- transition to new data storage - avast does not need the ODBC/Jet drivers anymore and should therefore work better even under older versions of Windows (95/98/ME, NT4)
- fixed a bug in the Script Blocker module that was causing conflicts with some programs under non-English Windows (e.g. the German invoice system Lexware)
- added support for additional executable packers (e.g. MoleBox)
- fixed a bug that was sometimes causing very slow scanning of CAB archives
- boot-time scanner: added support for additional archives (GZ, BZIP2, TAR, LHARC, ZOO)
- improved handling of infected files with exotic filenames
- solved a problem with setting of incorrect access rights to the avast executable files
- removed a limit of maximal length of winpopup alerts (used to be 128 characters)
- Enhanced User Interface: infected items are now marked as red
- implemented new method of deleting of locked infected files (now using the boot-time scanner technology)
- this new version is now compatible with the Windows Disk Protection feature from Microsoft Shared Computing Toolkit. For more information, please refer to the FAQ section
- Avast should now work flawlessly with Windows Vista beta 2 and higher (Vista beta 2 will be released in the first half of May, i.e. in about 3 weeks); unfortunately, in beta1 + CTP builds <= 5342 there still can be serious OS stability issues
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Bovendien heeft hij regelmatig problemen met games, aangezien die (vooral AOE3) niet graag samenwerken met Norton. Avast is relaxed 
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