DavidR
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My suggestion for those on dial-up would be to set the virus definitions update to Ask so you would at least know if there was one available as you would get the notification and could run it if convenient.
However, that would have the knock on effect of stopping the streaming updates as they only work when the virus definitions update is set to Auto. Some may say that is not a negative thing, but I do as they are a valuable addition to early avast detections.
So there is a bit of a choice there as a workaround, with good and bad points.
The avast.setup is still in avast 5, 6, 7 & 8, that hasn’t changed when there is an update in progress it should be present as that is what initiates/controls it.