Forced Program Update

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I am currently using Avast 4.7.942 and all is well. Does anyone know when the current program update (4.7.986) will forced during a regular iAvs update?

Thanks.

2

I think iAVS update will not install program updates.

3

Program updates are forced only when they’re required in order for VPS to work correctly. This happened few months ago.

4

Thanks for the responses. My question is does anyone know when this is scheduled to happen.

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If you have the Program Settings, Update (Basic), Program updates set to the default value ‘Ask when update is available’ then it should ask somewhere in the 7 day program update cycle (done to balance server load) you should have been asked.

The last program update 4.7.986 was released on the 18 April 2007 so the 7 day cycle is complete, you should have been asked and you may have missed it. If that is the case you can use the manual program update.

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DavidR,
Thank you.

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It should be a seven days period that have already finished if I’m correct…
So, the updates should already be done at this time… or it would be today…

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Your welcome, I trust you have done a manual program update now.

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I did a manual program update a few minutes ago and all is well.

Thanks again.

10

Thanks for posting. Glad everything is well.

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We force the latest program version installs only when these conditions are met:
a) latest version is mature enough - there are no known bugs, everything fixed
b) there is high enough number of people already having the latest version - because if forced install would be made too soon, it’d overload the servers
c) there is some new/fixed functionality, especially bound to update/setup/vps parts of avast, which needs to be used by all our users.

So as usual - no dates from us ;D