jadinolf
I love you Fred
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Ojai, CA
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2 edits |  OK guys and gals--avast! related
I am now putting my blessing on the beta version of avast! 5.0.239
I had problems with the smtp setting but sded straightened me out and I now approve of passing it on to my friends.
If you have a sacrificial computer, download it and give it a try. It is VERY different from the version you are used to.
»forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=51025.0
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MarkAW
Barry White or lil bratt
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| I'll still wait for the final. I tried Avast Beta 5.0.188 and had problems with it ( web shield wouldn't work and it wouldn't update the defs) and told myself i would wait for the final before i ever try it again, don't get me wrong i have been a avast user for years and can't wait for 5 to come out but the beta will never be installed on any of my systems ever again. |
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jadinolf
I love you Fred
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Ojai, CA | Mark, I agree that you should do it on a computer that you can afford to sacrifice. Since I am computer rich, I now have it on two computers.
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jaykaykay
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I am happy to see that the problems seem to out of it, but for now, I have nothing to sacrifice. I have a new box and that's it. But, I wait, and not patiently, for the non-BETA to be released. |
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jadinolf
I love you Fred
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| said by jaykaykay  :I am happy to see that the problems seem to out of it, but for now, I have nothing to sacrifice. I have a new box and that's it. But, I wait, and not patiently, for the non-BETA to be released. Oh, go ahead and sacrifice the new box. Live dangerously.
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poppster
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hey jadinolf, you know that I'm a die hard avast fan, but I had to delete the beta. During the latest definition updates it gave one of our laptops a bsod error. I had to do a system restore and un-install the beta. It's not ready for prime time yet, and I think when it does come out of beta, I might wait for the first program update.
Till then I'll use 4.8 on most of my rigs, and MSE on my wife's laptop.
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jadinolf
I love you Fred
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| said by poppster :hey jadinolf, you know that I'm a die hard avast fan, but I had to delete the beta. During the latest definition updates it gave one of our laptops a bsod error. I had to do a system restore and un-install the beta. It's not ready for prime time yet, and I think when it does come out of beta, I might wait for the first program update. Till then I'll use 4.8 on most of my rigs, and MSE on my wife's laptop. I recently tried MSE for a while after I uninstalled the beta on one of my boxes. It seemed fine except I never heard "Virus data base has been updated" in a north American accent. 
The beta is now working fine once I established the smtp port.
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poppster
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| said by jadinolf :said by poppster :hey jadinolf, you know that I'm a die hard avast fan, but I had to delete the beta. During the latest definition updates it gave one of our laptops a bsod error. I had to do a system restore and un-install the beta. It's not ready for prime time yet, and I think when it does come out of beta, I might wait for the first program update. Till then I'll use 4.8 on most of my rigs, and MSE on my wife's laptop. I recently tried MSE for a while after I uninstalled the beta on one of my boxes. It seemed fine except I never heard "Virus data base has been updated" in a north American accent. The beta is now working fine once I established the smtp port. lol yea if only it had that friendly little voice reminding me of those frequent updates.
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jadinolf
I love you Fred
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Ojai, CA | Now it will be a female voice telling you about the update, finished scan, etc.
Not as professional.
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computerman2
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| Just Reinstalled the beta of Avast 5 on my second desktop, tried eariler betas but those weren't up to using, but this one seems good enough to use on a test machine, don't know if i'd trust it yet on my main PC
But overall hapy with it!! and Avast 5 is gonna be great i'm sure when final |
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jadinolf
I love you Fred
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| said by computerman2 :Just Reinstalled the beta of Avast 5 on my second desktop, tried eariler betas but those weren't up to using, but this one seems good enough to use on a test machine, don't know if i'd trust it yet on my main PC But overall hapy with it!! and Avast 5 is gonna be great i'm sure when final Yep, that's why I posted this. The earlier releases were alphas in my opinion.
Good luck with it.
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