Avast Free Updates Very Slow

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
1

Since last evening Avast Free updates are very slow (10min. or more), never happens previously. Is there a server problem? Thanks.

2

Same here, it never seems to update at all! Was always very fast, must be a server problem?

3

I haven’t noticed any slow downs in the update process. Usually it takes somewhere around 40-70 seconds, depending on the update size.

edit: Romania.

4

Can we determine whereabout these problems are occuring i.e country.

5

i also noticed that the update is a little bit slower than usually!

an update (program) takes about 50 seconds (when no updates are available) - usually its faster…
if i update the virus database it only takes about 8 seconds like usually…

Austria

yours
onlysomeone

6

I can confirm that not only have the updates been much slower than usual the last couple of days, but sometimes it will time-out and say something like ‘unable to connect’. I am located northeast usa.

thanks,

gj

7

Not as fast as before… 1:03 minutes :frowning:

8

The data center outage affecting a significant proportion of the avast servers (and a lot of others too) is discussed here:

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?no_d2=1&sid=08/06/01/1715247

The hosting service is working round the clock to get all the servers back online.

9

Just got an update, working fine again in Ontario, Canada, 9:30pm.

10

Spyware Terminator had a similar incident.

http://forum.spywareterminator.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=4813