Avast 5 updates not appearing in Antivirus log

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Has the system changed, because I only had the first Avast 5 automatic update log a confirmation in the Antivirus Event Log; all the later ones do not log this at all?
Also has the navigation bar Icon been removed that used to appear during this operation?

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Hi Arch,

Welcome to the forum,

Anyway, what is your Operating system?

I am able to found what does you need is log about system update of avast rite?

I am using Win 7 Home Premium, and i able to found the history of avast update at : C:\ProgramData\Alwil Software\Avast5\log

And i don’t understand what is navigation bar icon that you question for?

Cheers,

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The System here is XP Pro SP3. Avast 4.8 always logged a confirmation message in the Antivirus Windows Event Log, as did Avast 5 the first time it updated.
In 4.8 an icon, similar to the yellow Microsoft one which always accompanies updates (so that one knows what is going on - I am on a mobile phone connection paying by the minute and sometimes log off before Avast has finished updating, hence the useful update icon). There used to be a setting to to activate this feature but I cannot find it in the latest version.

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There are no longer any entries in the windows event viewer for antivirus with 5.0. Unfortunately that doesn’t clear the old entries or antivirus sub-folder in the event viewer. I cleared mine out and as you can see it isn’t repopulated, see image.

I can’t recall if 5.0 did create an entry for the first update (which given the above I doubt), unless it was related to before it was removed.

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Thanks for the info. Regarding the missing Notification Icon, I will reinstall my FileSystemWatcher on the database folder as I dont want to generate an error by disconnecting whilst an update is in progress. Hopefully we might get the original icon back sometime?