I’d be curious to know if anyone has ever gotten infected while using Avast during these times of ‘so-called’ lapses in protection due to a day or two without an actual VPS update.
Just thinking out loud. ;D
Hmm… I supposed to sleep, but I couldn’t and you have asked a good question so I want to share my thoughts. Perhaps it is only a psychological problem that we used to to a daily update. I am not so sure is it so much necessary to make at least one update a day. I even have been thinking about that previously, why does Avast (but also others), publishes updates every single day. Is it so much viruses on the internet? Or they do that because everybody else do that too. Hm…
For crying out loud guys, over this period between 131116-1 and 131118-1 I got in excess of 400 streaming updates.
Avast 9 is on a different update stream to older versions of avast.
By all accounts, avast 9 has a much greater rate of streaming updates, so the dependence on the old style of VPDs update isn’t as critical as it otherwise would. I have seen this in older version where there was no VPS on some days and that too was typically on a weekend as this was. Then there were days when there were as many as 5 VPS updates, compared to over 200 in a 24hr period and 403 streaming updates between 131116-1 and 131118-1
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Obviously those who aren’t using or have a problem with streaming updates, that needs attention and is something that should certainly be taken up in its own topic, e.g. “avast 9.0.2008 Streaming updates not working” and we will try to help.
NOTE: To receive Streaming updates, requires that you have the virus definitions update set to auto.
@davidr.
But surely the streaming updates are entirely different from the VPS updates?
Sure you get streaming updates but the contents of the VPS updates must be different or why would avast issue them in the first place.?
Thanks.
They are different, but from one of the avast developers the virus definitions update have to be set to auto (the default setting) to also receive the background ‘auto’ streaming updates.
The contents of the VPS update also include the previous streaming updates.
I have one last question about this whole subject,in the UI under,settings>update,the box next to,“my computer is permaently connected to the internet” is not checked on my computer. Is it absolutly necessary to check that box? Also when it says,permantly connected to the internet,exactly what does that mean. I turn my computer off every night,so am I not permantly connected to the internet. I don’t quite understand.
Generally it just means that you are on a broadband connection as the other option is dial-up.
I turn mine off at night also, but that doesn’t matter as avast won’t be running so won’t be checking for updates.
Several days ago I posted the same issue and Asyn told me to to go Control Panel>Add or Remove>click on Avast, then ask to repair. It worked for ONE day! Since then it’s been hit or miss.
David R I have streaming updates in place… but am wondering if this may be a XP issue?
I have not got any new 19-0 update today. Anyone else have the problem?
idem… 
Same here.
I guess we’re going to do this every other day when there isn’t an update.
It would be really nice if someone of official capacity for avast! could enlighten us on how updates work and whether or not they are necessary every day along with streaming updates.
My understanding is that once a VPS update is released it is ALL packaged into the VPS update (meaning those previous streaming updates are also included into the VPS). This also helps Avast do the housekeeping of the virus defs. Meaning the streaming defs are virtually the same as the VPS updates since it’s just basically all the streaming updates defs + some new definitions (when avast! think it’s ready for a VPS)
Still no 19-0…
I see no update again!
I’m just going to assume that the updates come every other day now instead of twice a day, like they used to. It’s now the 20th, and I’m still at 131118-1. At least this thread has taught me what streaming updates are, and what button to push to monitor them. 8)
Have a look at the Virus Update History at http://www.avast.com/en-eu/virus-update-history and see what we missed on the 19th…
Sure, there are streaming updates, but do they really give the same protection? If so, Avast surely would have told their users? Or do they prefer to protect us at random? That would give them a bad name in AV-land, would it not?
You haven’t missed anything, the def’s updates only contain what has already been given to you via streaming so the def’s updates aren’t really a big concern unless they feel the need to push out a few fixes.
sorry, it’s not like that! - My Mobile get updates always on time… - today already in the morning 119.0 - only my laptop has Problems in the last week…
First with 116.1 about 2 days or more / now with 118.1…
Maybe they want the people to pay???
Same here. Mobile is up to date, laptop last updated on 11/18 2 days ago.