Has anybody noticed that sometimes cloud service shows as enabled but there is no connection established. Sometimes I have to enable and disable cloud services about 4 or 5 times before I can get a firm connection established. I will disable and enable, connection established appears for a couple of seconds then disappears. This is on XP SP3.
That happens occasionally to me, though, it normally gets back to normal in a few minutes.
I rarely check it, in most instances if I do it is connected.
I generally check the C:\Program Files\AVAST Software\Avast\defs shortly after boot as that is the streaming updates (part of the cloud services) and in most cases that has a streaming sub-folder.