Each time I update the program, version unchanged but ask for reboot

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I’m on the latest 7.0.1426.
I know there isn’t a program update. If I manually invoke the update, a reboot message appears.
Bug?

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Did you check out the registry key remaining as in the old avast reboot loop ?

Your old topic, http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=28547.msg233217#msg233217.

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Thanks David.
The problem is, why is it there? Why avast is adding this key?

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I’ve tested right now.
I manually delete the key, then invoke a program update and it comes back :cry:

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I don’t believe it is adding it every time, as I have done lots of manual program updates (to test this, on my XP Pro system) and for me it never once asked for a reboot as the manual update said there was no update present and I clicked OK. So I never got asked to reboot.

The only reason I can think of is an out of sync situation where the current and reported program version are seen as different. In the same way as the manual VPS update check says you are up to date, yet the displayed version is different. So I don’t know if the repair function would resolve the out of sync situation as it has in the past.

For me, the question is still, why it is the registry key still there after a reboot, is it ?
If so, it is likely to be some form of registry protection on the effected systems.

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I’ll try once more in few minutes…