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Dear uffbros and others,
we took a long discussion aboout the period of autoupdate checks - it’s great feature isn’t it? And we decide to set it to 4 hours after the first check - login to PC, connection to Internet. The first check is random, subsequent are distributed for connected computers in the term of 4 hours and during these 4 hours our update server should serve nearly one half of users and push data to them in about 30 Mbits per second. :o
And now imagine what happens when most of the users will decide to short this period to 1 hour, 10 minutes etc. No one will update at all… 
If you know these information, do you count your trick as a fair one? ???
I should express that in future builds of avast! the lowest available value for update check period will be 4 hours regardless of the value in the .ini file … 
But you can anytime click on the manual update, we believe that it won’t be the normal way of live for the most of avast! 4 Home users. ;D
If you realy need the faster and nonrandom update you can purchase avast! 4 Professional with its great “Push Update” feature - you’ll receive your update in minutes…
regards Eduard
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