Alwil Software heeft afgelopen woensdag een nieuwe versie van Antivirus uitgebracht. De software heeft versienummer 4.8.1296 meegekregen en is van deze pagina in verschillende talen te downloaden. Avast Antivirus is beschikbaar in een gratis versie voor thuisgebruik en een betaalde Pro-versie. Die laatste heeft overigens iets meer mogelijkheden. Hieronder zijn alle veranderingen te vinden die aan het programma zijn aangebracht sinds de vorige vermelding in de Meuktracker:
Changes in version 4.8.1296Changes in version 4.8.1290
- Minor improvements in some unpackers
- Improvements in the false positive submission system
- Speed optimization in kernel-mode components
- XML scan reports now generated in UTF-8 format (allow for non-Latin characters)
Changes in version 4.8.1282
- Improvements in the malware submission system
- Minor improvements in some unpackers
- Improvements in the rootkit scanner
- Network Shield: solved a problem occurring on systems with missing TCP stack
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- Improvements in some unpackers (Zip, 7-Zip, WinExec, Installer)
- Fixed incompatibility with ext2fsd driver
- Fixed a problem in The Bat! plugin (causing orphaned thebat.exe processes after the program was closed)
- Added new unpacker "droppers" (by default turned on in all tasks including the real time scanner)
- Fixed a problem with actions on infected files with special names
- Network Shield: added a component for blocking of malware URLs
- Added the possibility of sending of statistical information about detected viruses
- Added a new option of reporting of false positives
- Improved the submission from the Virus Chest (now based on HTTP protocol)
- Added a component for gathering of new samples from exploited pages
- Implemented a limit of the maximum size of the selfdef.log file
- Speed optimizations in the updater
- Speed optimizations in the scanning engine
- Solved a minor conflict with McAfee SiteAdvisor
- Added support for the Windows Security Center in Vista SP1 (new API)
- Minor fixes in the Web Shield
- Removed support for ICQ a MSN Messenger alerts
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