Latest version of Avast Antivirus

Airbot said:

September 3, 2010

Pre-Release 5.0.673

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What's new
Most notable improvements include:
- solved a problem that could lead to disappearing of the avast service
- Behavior Shield: solved a minor stability issue (aswSP.sys)
- performance and stability improvements in the avast! sandbox
- changes in the engine allowing us to generically detect/block some new types of exploits
- speed improvements in the updater
- IS: fixed a vulnerability in aswFw.sys (Secunia Advisory SA40868)
- IS: upgraded to the new version of antispam engine
- minor changes and fixes in the GUI
- fixes in the screen reader support
- added Danish and Hebrew language packs

And subsequently in 5.0.661:
- solved the vulnerability related to license files (Secunia Advisory SA41109)
- solved a UI crash condition during File system shield detections
- solved a problem with scanning of files with very long path names
- fixed the updater in East-Asian versions of avast running with Windows set to a different locale
- added Urdu language pack

And in 5.0.668:
- solved the pesky memory leak introduced in v5.0.661
- a few cosmetic fixes in the UI
- improvements in the avast sandbox
- improvements in the Outlook antispam plugin (it would be helpful if users of the avast Internet Security could test this one).

And in 5.0.673:
- more improvements in the avast sandbox
- few fixes in the new language modules
- Firewall: improvement in the path name matching (now handling correctly symbolic links etc)
- added trimming of setup.log
- a stability improvement in the avast service

New pre-release build of avast [NOW 5.0.673]

Thank you Aaron. First posted updated. :)

September 7, 2010

Final released as 5.0.677

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• solved a problem that could lead to disappearing of the avast service
• Behavior Shield: solved a minor stability issue (aswSP.sys) + solved a Win7 issue
• performance and stability improvements in the avast! sandbox
• changes in the engine allowing us to generically detect/block some new types of exploits
• speed improvements in the updater
• IS: fixed a vulnerability in aswFw.sys (Secunia Advisory SA40868)
• solved a vulnerability related to license files (Secunia Advisory SA41109)
• solved a problem with scanning of files with very long path names
• fixed the updater in East-Asian versions of avast running with Windows set to a different locale
• IS: improvements in the Outlook antispam plugin
• IS firewall: improvement in the path name matching
• IS: upgraded to the new version of antispam engine
• minor changes and fixes in the GUI
• fixes in the screen reader support
• fixed a bug where the File System Shield was scanning some files even after being disabled
• added trimming of setup.log
• added Danish, Hebrew and Urdu language packs

avast!

Thank you Aaron. First post updated. :)

Looks like this repairs the DLL loading vulnerability that is the hot topic this month.

"solved a vulnerability related to license files (Secunia Advisory SA41109)"

avast! Antivirus Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability - Advisories - Community

Jim

Airbot said:

September 7, 2010

Final released as 5.0.677

Added with Version 5 is the pre-checked option to install Google Chrome, the Google browser. If you are downloading Avast and do not want the install, you need to uncheck the pre-checked options:

Nah, that's been there for quite some time. Near the beginning of the start of version 5 - months ago. And it's the Google Chrome browser, not a toolbar.

You're welcome.


Here is Avast's blog entry about it, back in December 09. :)

avast! blog » Avast and Google Chrome