Latest Avast offline vpsupd.exe not working

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Recently the offline update files of avast are not running, when you double click they do nothing, I tried repairing Avast and it did not solve the problem, I have noticed that the size of offline updates has been reducing over time

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  • What is your OS?
  • Where did you download these updates?
  • What avast product are you using?
  • Any other security related software you are/were using?
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Vpsupd hasn’t worked since Avast24.10. I’ve posted on this bug many times but no fix yet.

I use Avast free on Win10 32-bit and 64-bit

I don’t have any other security software running, not even Defender

I’m still using Avast24.9. It is the last version in which vpsupd worked.

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@NON I’m using Windows 10, I downloaded the update from the official avast site, I’m using avast Premium Security and I don’t have another antivirus installed

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How to get offline installer of version 24.9?

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I can confirm something is wrong with latest vpsupd.exe for over Avast 19. I’ll report this to the devs.

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Any news on when this problem will be fixed?

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No response so far unfortunately, I’ll remind them.

On the side note, I found that the updater works on some machine while others not, depending on setup version (instup/icarus). Current updater works with instup but not icarus.

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Any workaround or fix? Is there a way to get a working offline installer?

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Unfortunately, Avast doesn’t keep offline installers on archive, so there is no source for an older version of Avast antivirus. To them, seemingly newer is always better no matter what

It would be wise to download offline installers in the future and save them to avoid situations like this. For me, I make monthly backups of my OS builds (the entire partition) so that’s how I can revert to an older version of Avast

I turn off automatic version updates. For that matter, I also turn off automatic virus updates and use vpsupd instead

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Same here. Everytime I try to update using vpsupd.exe it fails.

  • OS: Windows 11 24H2 (26100.4061)
  • Updates downloaded from : install . avcdn . net / vps18 / vpsupd.exe ? alt=es-es (to evade URL filter)
  • Using Avast Free Antivirus 25.4.10068a (Build 25.4.10068.0)
  • None other security related software (clean windows install just yesterday)

one thing of note. Everytime I try to offline update the process fails and these two events appears on the Application Event Log (Sorry about spanish)

Nivel Fecha y hora Origen Id. del evento Categoría de la tarea
Información 23/05/2025 9:06 Windows Error Reporting 1001 Ninguno
Error 23/05/2025 9:06 Application Error 1000 Eventos de bloqueo de aplicación

Details follow (as Text)

Nombre de registro:Application
Origen: Windows Error Reporting
Fecha: 23/05/2025 9:06:42
Id. del evento:1001
Categoría de la tarea:Ninguno
Nivel: Información
Palabras clave:
Usuario: MAINPC\TCapacitrón SRL
Equipo: mainpc
Descripción:
Depósito con errores 1868188038901407110, tipo 5
Nombre de evento: BEX
Respuesta: No disponible
Identificador de archivo .cab: 0

Firma del problema:
P1: b86362a5.exe
P2: 0.0.0.0
P3: 5fa94291
P4: b86362a5.exe
P5: 0.0.0.0
P6: 5fa94291
P7: 000918f6
P8: c0000409
P9: 00000005
P10:

Archivos adjuntos:
\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.756f915d-7f1d-4026-a71a-f67bfdb74187.tmp.dmp
\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.8f556c52-4043-4490-9ac0-78ffee02930c.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.4b37c159-d1b7-474d-b7d0-a1deb220bdc0.tmp.csv
\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.f58c8bda-f190-478c-8ba6-454a5a5e1e1b.tmp.txt
\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.d9fa43dd-9955-4789-b71f-15303915edf6.tmp.xml

Es posible que estos archivos estén disponibles aquí:
\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_b86362a5.exe_4db435b0d6ce8c692c3a9d50d2e2751404053_2d2fc656_61c5f067-569f-4aab-9a9c-b012abfd8c7d

Símbolo de análisis:
Nueva búsqueda de una solución: 0
Id. de informe: 9135d39d-9d8a-47e2-9167-a2f172984bad
Estado del informe: 268435456
Depósito con algoritmo hash: 7a9ae20997784d8f29ed231f905a1d86
GUID de archivo .cab: 0
XML de evento:



1001
0
4
0
0
0x8000000000000000

6198


Application
mainpc



1868188038901407110
5
BEX
No disponible
0
b86362a5.exe
0.0.0.0
5fa94291
b86362a5.exe
0.0.0.0
5fa94291
000918f6
c0000409
00000005



\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.756f915d-7f1d-4026-a71a-f67bfdb74187.tmp.dmp
\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.8f556c52-4043-4490-9ac0-78ffee02930c.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.4b37c159-d1b7-474d-b7d0-a1deb220bdc0.tmp.csv
\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.f58c8bda-f190-478c-8ba6-454a5a5e1e1b.tmp.txt
\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.d9fa43dd-9955-4789-b71f-15303915edf6.tmp.xml
\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_b86362a5.exe_4db435b0d6ce8c692c3a9d50d2e2751404053_2d2fc656_61c5f067-569f-4aab-9a9c-b012abfd8c7d


0
9135d39d-9d8a-47e2-9167-a2f172984bad
268435456
7a9ae20997784d8f29ed231f905a1d86
0

Nombre de registro:Application
Origen: Application Error
Fecha: 23/05/2025 9:06:35
Id. del evento:1000
Categoría de la tarea:Eventos de bloqueo de aplicación
Nivel: Error
Palabras clave:
Usuario: MAINPC\TCapacitrón SRL
Equipo: mainpc
Descripción:
Nombre de aplicación con errores: b86362a5.exe, versión: 0.0.0.0, marca de tiempo: 0x5fa94291
Nombre del módulo con errores: b86362a5.exe, versión: 0.0.0.0, marca de tiempo: 0x5fa94291
Código de excepción: 0xc0000409
Desplazamiento con errores: 0x000918f6
Id. de proceso con errores: 0x4700
Tiempo de inicio de aplicación con errores: 0x1DBCBE383362958
Ruta de aplicación con errores: C:\WINDOWS\system32\b86362a5.exe
Ruta de módulo con errores: C:\WINDOWS\system32\b86362a5.exe
Id. de informe: 9135d39d-9d8a-47e2-9167-a2f172984bad
Nombre completo del paquete con errores:
Id. de aplicación relacionado con el paquete con errores:
XML de evento:



1000
0
2
100
0
0x8000000000000000

6197


Application
mainpc



b86362a5.exe
0.0.0.0
5fa94291
b86362a5.exe
0.0.0.0
5fa94291
c0000409
000918f6
0x4700
0x1dbcbe383362958
C:\WINDOWS\system32\b86362a5.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\b86362a5.exe
9135d39d-9d8a-47e2-9167-a2f172984bad





tried to attach the .wer file, but as a new user I can´t…

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Unfortunately, in most cases, vpsupd no longer works with latest Avast.

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is there any place to place a bug report? the problem is just in there, on those two log entries. The update is running some program and the program crashes with a DEP! that’s the definition of a bug.

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As NON mentions:

This is ‘depreciated’, given that you can leave the VPS updates on Automatic or Manual within the program and manually run the VPS update from within the program.

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Please devs, fix offline updates and provide a history of Avast offline installers for download old versions

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Avast only provides program off-line installation files for the current version.

There are links provided in the forum are for the current version only - the actual link that is given even if saved would only serve up the latest version.

Some time ago I used to download and save the offline installation file for avast antivirus free, basically as a fallback should I need to go back to the previous version.

There are some sites that do keep old versions of programs file hippo was one from memory