Advice Request Avast said "something big is happening"

[CyberTech]

Just now I noticed that the

Thanks for updating. The new logo looks strange and I prefer the old one...

Agree with you, the new logo looks like air logo haha

 

[amico81]

 

[Captain Holly]

OK so I had bad insomnia tonight and was curious, so I opened up Avast a few minutes ago just to see what might happen if I did a manual update. Before I updated, the status showed I was up to date/current but I ran the update anyway. Surprise surprise, Avast updated, it took about 3 minutes then it asked for permission to restart my computer. I now have the new logo in my notification area but the old amoeba splat logo is still on my desktop. I am seeing now that if I look at the new logo as a whole part it does still kind of look like the letter A, but that is a minor point. Other than that Avast and all its settings, shields, scans, colors, everything all looks and works exactly the same as before the update. I can not see any difference at all, no new shields or scans available and no mention of crypto-anything. I will say the GUI does seem to move a little faster when clicking between scans, settings, notifications and all.

I also got a new message from Avast, clicked the button to See What's Changed and it took me to this site:

Avast About us | About AVAST Software

www.avast.com

The site has some links about "Free Antivirus No Strings Attached" and "A smoother faster online experience". When I click the links in each section on that site I get a 404 error. I guess it's not quite ready yet.

I do not see any changes in the GUI at all, other than the newfangled logo:

The updated Avast is looks to be using more RAM, which might be due to it still updating, but really is not that important:

Maybe there will be more changes to come in the next few days. I hope Avast updates that web site soon so we can see the rest of the details on what they did in this new version.

I guess we all need to stay tuned.

C.H.

 

[Julian RO]

Pretty interesting UI I guess

 

[marcopaone]

A "new" huge competitor is coming.

 

[Moonhorse]

Avast one stable downloaded, there is no way to remove trial and enter free version... trial is 30 days ...

 

[SpiderWeb]

Lemme guess, Avast VPN? lol

 

[oldschool]

Avast one stable downloaded, there is no way to remove trial and enter free version... trial is 30 days ...

From what I can tell, AVG hasn't gone down this road yet but I haven't tried going from trial to free. Still fully customizable too, though a few more annoying "important" notifications (to scare users) which may be disabled.

 

[RansomwareRemediation]

View attachment 260563

Latest beta brings new logo.

Avast Community

forum.avast.com

only Avast change the icon ? Avg not ? . The new icon is beutifull :3

 

[gery79]

i guess they will screw avg totally?

 

[Moonhorse]

From what I can tell, AVG hasn't gone down this road yet but I haven't tried going from trial to free. Still fully customizable too, though a few more annoying "important" notifications (to scare users) which may be disabled.

Hope they keep avg original, its much better looking than avast one

 

[gery79]

Hope they keep avg original, its much better looking than avast one

I dont think so