Manual updates

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I am using avast! 4.1 in my home PC. I have only dial-up connection there. So I usualy download the newest vpsupd.exe file at my job and do manual update at home.

The question is. Should I download every file (0310-1, 0310-2, … 0310-6) or the last one only, in order to get full virus database update?

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The vpsupd.exe file contains the full virus database inside (the recent one, of course). So, only the newest vpsupd.exe file is needed - no need to download anything older. (In fact, I don’t think it’s possible to download the older versions… is it?)

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Thanks, Igor. Very fast reply indeed!

Actualy it is. What I mean was not the older versions. I just used to download every update in a week time and apply all of them on my home PC on weekend.

Thanks again

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Wellcome to foruns pnkFloyd… As Igor said, just the last one is necessary… Usually, updates come on Tuesdays and Thursdays…
If you donwload at Friday you can have a ‘virus clean’ weekend 8)

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You need only latest vpsupd.exe

But, have you considered downloading the differential updates? They should take no longer than 1 minute on a dial-up (52k). (I guess <15s in reality).

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