Avast! Free Edition 21.5.6354 (New) Released

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https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=283231.0           
Offline slavo.benko

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NEW Avast Version 21.5 (June 2021)
« on: Today at 10:55:10 AM »
Hi, all. Please welcome the newest version of Avast AV: 21.5 (21.5.2470)

Major public announcements

    Fewer interruptions in fullscreen — When you’re running another app fullscreen, our antivirus will no longer open on top and interrupt you. We apologize if this happened to you! (And don’t worry, threat warnings will still appear, so you’ll always know about malware even while watching your favorite film)
    Introducing Webcam Shield reminders — If you’ve configured Webcam Shield to automatically block or allow apps, we’ll now remind you of this when an app tries to access your webcam so you don’t sit around wondering why your webcam isn’t working. (For Premium Security only)
    Updated privacy policies — We’ve updated our General Privacy Policy and other connected privacy policies. You can find them here


Bug fixes for:

    Software Updater is giving us a headache these days - We had to temporarily remove this feature from Smart Scan to patch a few bugs, but users can still find and use it from their menu. We’ll be slowly rolling it back out to Smart Scan, so if you don’t see it there yet, please wait a few more days
    We’ve updated our UI rendered CEF to a new version (chromium 90.0.4430.93) to patch known security flaws
    Fixed issue with creating Rescue Disk for UEFI format (next to BIOS)
    Other Rescue Disk improvements: fixed a bug that prevented Rescue Disk from starting, improved keyboard controls, etc.
    Fixed a tray icon error that showed an issue notification despite everything being OK
    Fixed a Firewall issue where driver aswNetHub.sys caused a BSOD
    Fixed a leak of GDI objects
    Fixed the AvastClear utility, which didn’t properly remove the antivirus from Windows Security Centre
    ...and a lot of other improvements we can’t disclose


As usual a big thanks goes to the team for yet another successful release!

How to install:

1. Update from your existing Avast version via Settings -> Update -> Update program

2. Or you can download and install files:

Online installers (recommended):

    Free: https://bits.avcdn.net/insttype_FREE
    Premium Security (formerly Premier): https://bits.avcdn.net/insttype_APR
    Omni: https://bits.avcdn.net/insttype_OMNI

Offline installers:

    Free: https://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avast_fre...ffline.exe
    Premium Security (formerly Premier): https://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avast_pre...ffline.exe
    Omni: https://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avast_omn...ffline.exe        Digital Signature ( Avast Software s.r.o.)          Avast! Free Edition 21.5.6354   Was 100% Scanned Malware Free & Clean With  Avast! Free Edition 21.5.6354    &    Contains    No Malware, No Adware, No PUPS,  No Rootkits, No Backdoors,  No Ransomware, No Spyware, No Trojan  Horses, No Viruses, and No Worms,

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Antivirus Free Antivirus 21.6.2474  (New) Released:   https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=292731.0         
Offline slavo.benko
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NEW Avast Version 21.6 (July 2021)
« on: Yesterday at 04:42:27 PM »
Hi, all. Please welcome the newest version of Avast AV: 21.6 (21.6.2474)


Public announcements
Useful Smart Scan notifications — We’ve fine-tuned the behavior of Smart Scan with improved initialization steps, and ensured that you receive proper notifications about scheduled scans.
Better feature shortcuts — We’ve changed the main tile navigation so Avast Antivirus features are easier to distinguish from shortcuts to other Avast products.

Bug fixes and improvements for:
The latest renderer version stopped supporting CPUs with SSE2, so we needed to add an install block and freeze users using this older pieces of HW on 21.4 version
Fixed cases of infinite loader when turning off some of core shield via Settings
Fixed support tool (collection logs and info for customer support and debugging) that was not properly grabbing AV status and subscription status in Rescue Disk, plus it now reports WSC status
FYI: Virus Chest has been renamed to Quarantine
Fixed removal of scheduled tasks
Fixed a case when some of antivirus windows opened in the background (behind other full-screen app) even if this was not desired while interacting with it
...and a lot of security improvements we can't be more concrete about

As usual a big thanks goes to the team for yet another successful release!

How to install:

1. Update from your existing Avast version via Settings -> Update -> Update program

2. Or you can download and install files:

Online installers (recommended):
Free: https://bits.avcdn.net/insttype_FREE
Premium Security: https://bits.avcdn.net/insttype_APR
Omni: https://bits.avcdn.net/insttype_OMNI
Offline installers:
Free: https://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avast_fre...ffline.exe
Premium Security: https://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avast_pre...ffline.exe
Omni: https://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avast_omn...ffline.exe       Avast! Free Edition 21.6 Was  100% Free, which means it does not contain any form of malware, including but not limited to: spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors. & Scanned With Avast Free Antivirus  21.6.2474  &  Hitman Pro 3.8.23               Digital Signature ( Avast Software s.r.o. )