I would like to see some indication in the system tray icon as well.
lakrsrool, if I understand, is on dial up and simply wants to know that at this very moment Avast is updating.
I’d like to know it also, because sometimes the computer’s fan goes crazy, hard drive works hard and it turns out it was an update coming in or the notification that a version update is available. Knowing what all the activity is about at the instant it happens is nice. Task Mgr/Process explorer do take a second or two to run. Too late to know what happened.