Hay Guys, anyone else experiencing trouble with the new Beta 6.0. Since installing avast 6.0 it’s slowing down my puter, using to much cpu’s on boot and taking a long time for all my programs to level off. Than it updates on every boot as many as a few times a day, and even without booting, don’t think this is normal? BUT the strangest one is yesterday I unplugged my internet connection on a boot and Avast was still showing as running :o with no internet connection. Is this a new feature? the old one immediately would show avast with a red ball and warnings I was unprotected if I did not have an interent connection. ???. OK, no not the new red ball on the beta, lol
uninstalled and reinstalled it once already when I first added 6.0 now using 6.01 and my programs are stil sluggish through out the day and seems to be running to many threads when I close a browsner or program.
Avast should definitely not show that you are unprotected when there is no network connectivity. At least not until the specified time has elapsed from the last successful update. Mind you, there are still people on dialup and not connected 24/7. Sounds like a bug was fixed for you, not the other way round.
avast checks if there is an available connection each 40 seconds.
If there isn’t, wait more 40 seconds to check. Checking does not take more than one second and, of course, does not use the Internet band.
If there is a connection, check for an update. If there is not any new file to download, wait 4 hours to start checking again. If there is an available update, start it and install it. Again, wait 4 hours to check the next time.
The program updates are released but to avoid excessive load on the servers the auto update check happens randomically every 12 hours and it’s not checking every time you connect to the Internet as with the virus definitions checks. The cycle is controlled by the servers and can be changed at any time. So no later than 12 hours after the update is released, everyone should get at least one popup. The order is machine-fixed (not random-generated for each update).
Avast Free AV checks for updates every 4 hours. Avast Pro AV and IS check every 1 hour. The program already knows that the update is there, but it won’t tell you until it’s your turn. You have to allow the update, i.e., it’s not a forced and automatic update. They also use 3rd party servers for updates distribution, combined with their huge network of standalone servers, to distribute the content from geographically close locations.
Yeah… The network is being discovered… and avast updated.
To delay the update of avast into a permanent internet connection (DSL), just change (or add) AlwaysConnectedWaitSeconds value into the [InetWD] section of avast5.ini file.
You could set the number of seconds to wait before attempting to update. The default is 30 but it may not be enough in some DSL systems. In this case, you can try increasing this e.g. to 60 (1 minute). That should be enough.
I should clarify that by idle I meant the HDD activity. Not that the computer is sitting there doing nothing. But trying to update when there is heavy I/O activity resulting from boot is the worst possible moment, TBH.
Hmmm… Do not convince me that it won’t be so late…
Keeping the security updated is a must have action when boot.
Some machines (like mine) have a heavy boot time…
So the setting into the GUI will be a lovely idea.
Well, once again, too late for what? If you are already infected on boot, it is too late anyway. The few minutes will not really be of any magic help there.
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avast rely mostly in signatures. Other antivirus, like Avira, are very aggressive on zero-day detections and heuristics (with the drawbacks of false positives).
If avast does not update quick, well, we could be in hot waters.
That’s my point of view.
got the same thought immediately after reading your post Tech… too late for what ??? Dok is suggesting that the OP would wait until the system is idle and attempt a manual update so he won’t get the tens of failed attempts he mentioned in his first post.
This being said, apparently no one here has a clue about the reasons for this behavior on his system, and I don’t either ??? … delaying the automatic update check is another story no one really cares about, especially since it’s not implemented. No idea though what the behavior would be with a delayed start of Avast services, could help the OP no idea, but that’s not the main issue, his issue is that his system boots and runs like crap when Avast is installed, and we don’t know why. We don’t even know what his OS is, what programs he runs, the guy didn’t say anything ;D
Nope. Not manual at all. Simply wait until the system settles down. As said, it really don’t help when you try to download and update quite a bunch of files when there already is heavy I/O and CPU activity due to all the services and other startup items being run.
First, I don’t agree with the idea (people may have various stuff auto-started with the OS, various IMs, possibly even e-mail clients, and I’d say it’s definitely safer to have the virus database updated before these tools connect to the net).
But second, I’d say the OP suggested that the slowdown is because of the updates - and now everyone sticks to that. But I don’t see why it should be that way (especially if he says it occurs multiple times a day - I don’t believe a pure update check, without any update being actually available, could use much CPU). So isn’t it more likely that it’s just something else? (scanning auto-started items? if connected to avast at all?)
