What's The Latest Avast Update For Mac
An update to the Avast antivirus has blocked users' ability to access the Internet, most customers needing to disable the antivirus in order to be able to get online (and complain to Avast).
Norton for mac verus avast. Avast offers two separate antivirus products for Mac platform: Avast Security and Avast Security Pro. Much like Avast Free Antivirus, which only works on Windows, Avast Security has more or less the same features and is completely free, too.
The issue seems to have been caused by an update Avast released late Wednesday night. Hours after the update, users started complaining about the problem, flocking to the company's support forum.
I'm using the beta channel, so maybe that's the reason why the update to Avast for Mac 13.2 cannot be found? Update: In my case I can download VPS updates though, thus my problem is different than the one originally posted.
- Avast Security (for Mac), Avira Free Antivirus for Mac, and Sophos Home Free (for Mac) are totally free for personal use, although Sophos technically limits you to three devices, macOS or Windows.
- In cooperation with Microsoft we have identified an element of the latest Windows 10 1803 update that is incompatible with the Avast Behavior Shield, causing the aforementioned update to fail in some instances (related to a timing issue, Internet connectivity issue, etc).
Many of these complaining users reported they were using Avast's free antivirus version.
While users could still connect to the Internet after they temporarily disabling the Avast antivirus, some users reported fixing the issue for good by uninstalling the antivirus and performing a clean install. Later, Avast team members started recommending the same thing.
'I tried doing a repair too. It didn't help,' an Avast user wrote on their forum. 'I then Uninstalled and re-downloaded. That did the trick.'
An Avast spokesperson did not respond to Bleeping Computer's request for comment, so we can't know for sure how much of Avast's userbase is affected.
Apple Latest Update For Mac
This is not the first time an antivirus goes bonkers. Barely two weeks ago, the Webroot antivirus flagged core Windows OS files as malicious and started moving a few to quarantine, effectively trashing customers' computers.
By this point in time, almost every major antivirus maker has faced with these types of snafus.
UPDATE [May 11, 2017, 15:10 ET]: An Avast spokesperson told Bleeping Computer the following:
We have identified that the problem is caused by an update issue of the dynamic link library (dll), which is part of the WebShield feature. We are preparing a patch that we will provide to the small number of users affected as soon as possible.
What's The Latest Avast Update For Mac
h/t jonas_me for the tip