I just finished successfully installing the new Avast Antivirus (Free) version a few minutes ago and all seems well. In fact as of right now I like the way it is presented much more than version 4.8.
However, I am sure that when I had 4.8 running that there was an entry in my ‘Event Viewer’ which told when my definition updates were automatically installed. I think it was called ‘Virus Updates’ or something like that.
Anyway, there is no such entry as of right now. Will this feature return to my ‘Event Viewer’ when I start getting automatic definition updates? ???
Well there were remnants of entries from 4.8 that remained, I cleared the log to confirm no entries were created by avast 5. I never got round to removing the antivirus section though, couldn’t see an option for that.
I take it that you still have the antivirus section in the event viewer or was that removed also ?
No, I no longer have the ‘Antivirus’ section listed in my Event Viewer either. It apparently was taken out when I uninstalled the 4.8 version of Avast.
It isn’t the end of the world not having it anymore, but I have to admit it was easy to keep track of your definition updates with it being part of Event Viewer.
However, since there was an ‘Antivirus’ entry in my Event User when I was using Avast 4.8 and each and every automatic difinition update was logged, then why is there no such entry since I started using the new Avast version 5?
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I installed 5 over 4.8, and still see the “anti-virus” category in the event viewer too even though there’s nothing in it. I guess which way you installed makes an unexpected difference, for whatever reason.
Slightly off-topic, but closely related … I’ve also got the Internet Explorer category in my event viewer, though I can’t remember ever seeing any events there. (I’ve got IE-8, but only use that for MS Updates, Firefox for everything else.) Is that probably an analogous situation, a carry-over from some older IE version that’s no longer around or active?
I have always had ‘Internet Explorer’ listed in my ‘Event Viewer’ too, at least as long as I have been running IE8. And, for what it’s worth … there is nothing listed in my ‘Internet Explorer’ heading either.
I always liked the way I could go to ‘Event Viewer’ and check to see how many updates Avast had in a certain time period. I for one will miss that, but time marches on and nothing stays the same.
I have never seen anything in ‘Internet Explorer’ and in fact I only have ‘Application’ and ‘System’ tabs in Event Log Explorer on XP Pro and ‘Application’, ‘Media Center’, ‘Security’ and ‘System’ on Win7
I can never recall Internet Explorer in the event viewer, so my guess is that it is placed there on installation/update to IE8. Though two things, I rarely visit the event viewer and don’t use IE other than the occasional manual foray into windows update.
Thanks …