Release notes

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Program update AVG Internet Security 2012.1913 HotFix 10

Fixes & Improvements

  • AntiSpam: Fixed possible freeze in e-mail client addins.
  • SafeSearch: SearchShield updated for FireFox 10.
  • SafeSurf: Fixed issue with SafeSurf crash.
  • Setup: Fixed issue with misleadingly displayed warning on "Firefox not being supported".
  • Update: Fixed problem with upgrade from AVG 2011 to AVG 2012.

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Program update AVG Internet Security 2012.1901 HotFix 09

Fixes & Improvements

  • Toolbar: Implemented new toolbar supporting Firefox 9.
  • Safe Search: Firefox 9 support implemented in Safe Search component.

Program update AVG Internet Security 2012.1890 Small Update 03

Fixes & Improvements

  • AntiSpam: Fixed possible freeze in e-mail client addins.
  • Email Scanner: Fixed issue with wrong e-mail certification.
  • Online Shield: Fixed possible corruption of deflate encoded data.
  • Online Shield: Fixed data corruption when connecting to https servers through proxy.
  • Setup: Update does not request computer restart if Safe Search only is installed.
  • Toolbar: New version of toolbar implemented.
  • Update: Deleted shortcuts are not recreated during update.

Program update AVG Internet Security 2012.1873 HotFix 08

Fixes & Improvements

  • Safe Search: Safe Search is no longer in conflict with Australian Taxation Office website.
  • Safe Search: Fixed Toolbar "unable to connect to AVG" issue.

Program update AVG Internet Security 2012.1872 HotFix 07

Fixes & Improvements

  • Safe Search: Safe Search is no longer in conflict with Australian Taxation Office website.

Program update AVG PRO 2012.1869 Small Update 02

Fixes & Improvements

  • AvgSys: Fixed crash in Internet Explorer that occurred in a rare software configuration.
  • Documentation: Help section on how to contact the customer support has been updated to cover new options in AVG 2012.
  • Email scanner: Subject of an e-mail message does not change when clean files in the attachment are removed by the attachment filer.
  • Email scanner: Fixed problem with encoding of national characters in AVG certification.
  • Email scanner: Subject of a spam message detected by AntiSpam is changed accordingly, however it still includes the original text as well.
  • Email scanner: Optimization of e-mail scanner configuration on outgoing messages.
  • Prevalence: Fixed issue with crash while cloning AVG settings via Settings Manager.
  • Safe Search: Fixed text injected into Facebook notes field.
  • Setup: Fixed issue with progress bar display during installation, and unistallation.
  • Setup: Fixed issue with installation progress not being correctly displayed in Chinese localization.
  • Setup: Fixed the registration of AVG Diagnostic File.
  • Setup: Fixed issue with failure on predefined configuration.
  • Update: Deleted shortcuts are not recreated during update.
  • Update: Fixed issue with WinXP x64 registry limitations.
  • User Interface: Optimized display of embedded browser pages.

Program update AVG Pro 2012.1834 HotFix 06

Fixes & Improvements

  • Update: Fixed issue with update settings conversion while upgrading from previous version.

Program update AVG Pro 2012.1831 Small Update 01 - 05/10/2011

Fixes & Improvements

  • Core: Fixed issue with false detections on HFS+ partitions.
  • Email Scanner: Fixed issue with "dot" character decoding/encoding.
  • Identity Protection: Fixed issue with conflicting applications: 7-Zip, and Radio? Sure!
  • Outlook: Improved Outlook 2010 antispam detection.
  • Setup: Corrected issue with progress bar displaying the installation progress (Dutch version).
  • Setup: Personal e-mail scanner is installed always when MS Outlook 2010 is installed.
  • Update: Fixed issue with The Bat! plug-in removal during update.
  • User Interface: Fixed crash in internal web browser.
  • Virus Vault: Fixed Virus Vault enumeration.

Program update AVG Pro 2012.1809 HotFix 02

Fixes & Improvements

  • Toolbar: Fixed issue with AVG Toolbar installation on Windows XP.

Program update AVG Pro 2012.1808 HotFix 01

Fixes & Improvements

  • Antispam: Fixed misconfiguration in the e-mail plugin.
  • Identity Protection: Fixed issue with possible occassional crash of another application.
  • LinkScanner: LinkScanner now supports also Firefox 7.
  • Online Shield: Fixed issues with loading of web pages added in Online Shield's list of excluded URLs.
  • Setup: When it impossible to procced with AVG setup due to previous driver unistallation, a dialog offering restart appears.
  • Setup: During remote installation, the current version of AVG 2012/2011 on the target station is detected correctly using the QuitIfInstalled parameter.
  • Toolbar: Implemented support for Firefox 7.
  • User Interface: Fixed issue with user interface crash.

Program update AVG Email Server 2012.1869 Small Update 02

Fixes & Improvements

  • Update: Fixed issue with update settings conversion while upgrading from previous version.

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Program update AVG E-mail Server 2012.1834 HotFix 06

Fixes & Improvements

  • Update: Fixed issue with update settings conversion while upgrading from previous version.

Program update AVG Email Server 2012.1796

Fixes & Improvements

  • EMS Exchange: Phishing flag is ignored for messages from sender on white list.
  • EMS Exchange: Installation scripts for transport agents fixed to work on Windows SBS Server 2011.
  • EMS Exchange: Added posibility to switch off scan of outbound emails in VSAPI plug-in.
  • Server Setup: Added backup and restoring of VSAPI scan settings.
  • Server Setup: Fixed MS showing Exchange IS service in Close running applications dialog during uninstallation of exchange plugin.
  • User Interface: Extended statistics for Document Scanner for MS Sharepoint server component.
  • User Interface: Extended statistics of VSAPI and antivirus transport agents components.

Program update AVG Remote Administration 2012.1836 HotFix 05

Fixes & Improvements

  • Network Installer: By default, Network Installer does not install Secure Search and AVG gadget.

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Program update AVG Remote Administration 2012.1798

Fixes & Improvements

  • Console: New option of sending a test e-mail was added into advanced configuration of SMTP server within Alert Manager component.
  • Console: "Server plug-in statistic data" dialog was modified to be able to display new extended statistics of Exchange server and SharePoint server plug-ins.
  • Console: Implemented new AVG Admin Update Assistant that helps user to easily update all Remote Admin applications.
  • Console: Startup page added into Admin Console providing information on the database and connected stations.
  • Console: Rootkit exceptions can be added from synchronized scan log in Admin Console.
  • Console: Quick help panel was removed; its content can be found in the standard help file.
  • Console: Version panel was removed; its content can be found on the new startup page in console.
  • Console: Filter panel is not visible by default, but can be shown using the navigation toolbar button (Show/Hide filter bar).
  • Console: Fixed issue with improper display of a station scan results on double click in Admin Console message view (Polish version only).
  • Console: Added possibility to remotely shut down stations (AVG 2012 stations only, both forced and non-forced restart or shut down is available).
  • Console: New column providing Mozilla Thunderbird plug-in status info is now being displayed in Remote Administration console (similar to The Bat! plug-in).
  • Console: Reorganized structure of context menus for better availability of actions upon stations.
  • Console: Fixed error of "Record wasn't found in database" occasionally occurring when removing station marked in Remote Installation view in Admin Console.
  • Documentation: New help files for AVG Remote Administration 2012.
  • Server: More efficient storing of binary objects in the database. Decreased database size.
  • General: In Admin Console, a new option was implemented allowing to remotely delete update files cached by Admin Server.
  • General: Admin Server now uses more efficient method of storing large binary data, and the database size significantly decreased.
  • Network Installer: New method of remote installation using WMI technology, it replaces the former method using RPC and AVG Agent helper process.
  • Network Installer: AVG Toolbar dialog was removed from the installation run via script generated by Network Installer Wizard.
  • Network Installer: Installation runs correctly even with other security software already installed.
  • Network Installer: Fixed issue with downloading the latest installation packages.
  • Network Installer: AVG Network Installer Wizard does not support AVG Security Toolbar installation any longer.
  • RA Setup: Fixed problem with incorrect system resources allocation.
  • Server: Managed update service was removed, and so was the notification on update failure.
  • Server: Show warning in Admin Server Settings dialog if invalid SMTP login/password is used.
  • Server: Network installer and graphic reports of e-mails now properly display time in specific time zones.
  • Server: Optimized synchronization of Firewall settings. Better performance.
  • General: Easy upgrade from AVG Remote Administration 2011, 9.0 and 8.5.
  • General: Support of both AVG 2011 and AVG 2012 stations. Remotely launched upgrade of AVG 2011 stations to new version AVG 2012. Option to reinstall stations older with version.
  • General: Support of both AVG 2011 and AVG 2012 stations. Support for different configuration of updates source for each version.