avast! piggybacking for Adobe/Opera???

Viruses and worms
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Hello, would anyone know why avast! announces updates for Adobe and for Opera please? Also, these avast! carrying Adobe’s updates are too frequent, like several a week! As to Opera…I don’t even have that program…

Thanks ever so much for your ideas :slight_smile: Adela

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Avast alerts users for critical updates. That is all. Nothing to do with piggybacking, just for the software you have and is outdated, meaning risky.
It is a service like we know from Secunia’s, but now it comes build into your av solution. I think it is great, because a lot of users will get infected because lots of people are sloppy with updating/upgrading (OS, browser and other third party software),

polonus

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Thanks polonus, but I don’t even have most of the software it alerts me from!!! Who or what is “Secunia”? :slight_smile:

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Secunia software inspector.
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/how_it_works/