300K-DL on prog-Update, although avast IS uptodate ?

Hi,

I clicked prog-update on my avast 4.1.268 with VPS 0309-2
and it started a 300 KB download

http://www.beepworld.de/memberdateien/members51/who-cares/avast-dl.gif

and it changed avast.setup (detected by Kerio 2.1.5 on Win2000-SP4, all critical patches)

Afterwards, avast tells me:

  • Programm already uptodate (as I knew it to be)

this happened quite some times now with 4.1.268

Why so ?

(Logged in admin-user, not “Administrator”; usual avast installation, no tweaks or so:

extension-list is scanned on open, write/create and prohibited formatting)

??? ???

Hi,

does it happen every time you try a program update?

I so, can you please send me:

setup.ini
setup.log
a directory listing of a directory (dir . >setup.lst)

All of this should be in avast4\setup directory.

Thanks,

Hi kubecj,

PM

:slight_smile:

i experienced this once…knowing my program and virus definitions are most updated…i still tried to update again by right-clicking on the avast icon…“updating-program update”…surprising there’s something to download…after downloading the 300k…the report shows that everything is already up to date…strange…

??? ???

but it only hapeens once…now everything is fine and normal
;D ;D

I found nothing (4.1.268 VPS 0309-3) :cry:

same thing happened here too on two systems. but it was a one-time incident.

maybe vlk would like to comment on this?? 8)

According to kubecj, it was a one-time incident and has now been fixed

got it…awesome… ;D

Thanks Vlk, we are not all crazy :o

Just a small thing I noticed. It’s not 300KB, it’s 300 bytes.

really?..but it doesn’t matter anymore… :slight_smile:

Hi Amerk, if you check my 1st post, you’ll see that it was 300 KB = 300000 Bytes indeed

Hi Kubecj,

seems fixed; files are on their way 2u

:slight_smile:

:o ;D :stuck_out_tongue:

My mistake. You’re right ::slight_smile:

I had this update today also , I clicked on “Program Update”, downloaded the update then my KPF 2.1.5 informed me that Avast4 setup had changed ???
but after I clicked on “Program Update” I had the attached message… :-
So, what exactly is this update? ??? ??? ???

It’s a bug in a generator.

On thursday we’re released version 10C (268). On friday, together with a VPS update, setup of version 10C was mistakenly re-generated, resulting in slightly different binary.

Because internals of setup (updater) are written in a way that it needs perfect sync with our servers, it had to download that binary.

But, because most of the reporting code just compares the versions, it did display ‘up-to-date’, because version numbers were the same (268 → 268).

So, this bug cost most of you just 300kbs of download.

sorry for that anyway,