Actually, I’ve been looking for the “avast.setup” process but haven’t been able to see this process running. I checked again just now and the only “Avast” process I have been able to see is “AvastUI.exe” and I checked just 2-3 minutes before I got the message that the Avast virus database was updated thus Avast must have been updating the virus database during the time I checked the Task Manager.

I am using version 6.0.1466 of Avast (I don’t care for the way the interface has been described for the current Avast version) so perhaps when the “update” is running it’s a different situation for the version I’m using. If so then it would appear that I have no way of knowing if and when Avast is updating the virus data base in my case.