From the several situations described here, I think that Avast Team should recheck their severs, IMHO.
Last year I was receiving both tray notifications. Then I only received database tray notifications. Now I only receive program tray notifications (I guess, until I decide to actually apply the program update).
Other users are reporting in this topic different behaviours, during those same periods of time and using several different stable releases.
Currently, while I am receiving one of the tray notifications since several days ago, others are receiving both of them (as I used to, until last year); other users are not receiving program notifications during long periods of time and during several stable releases (as I was, until several days ago), and other users have never seen both tray notifications simultaneously.
All these different behaviours are being seen using several different stable releases, but until now (with some few reports), we can’t identify some specific common denominator.
My first conclusion (no real probe though) would be that the stable version being used is not the main factor for these strange behaviours. It seems that the new release that users are trying to update to, or they are suppose to update to, is also not the main factor in this context either.
It seems the different behaviours might be related to different servers (hardware and software combinations).
We should wait some additional days though, because the CURRENT differences might be caused by the spreading of the program update in some reasonable period of time, so to avoid servers’ crashing. But, the more permanent and/or older strange behaviours can’t be explained by the distribution cycle.
If we wait 1 or 2 additional weeks, and the tray notifications situation would not be more stable between different users, then we might be able to conclude that something is not running as it should somewhere in some of all Avast’ servers.
Once again, I have no real proof. Those first conclusions might end up being wrong. I am only basing them on the current reports of different behaviours and different experiences.
We might find out that the problem is related, for example, to the specific OS (XP, Vista, Seven) or “edition” (Basic, Home, Professional, x86 - 32 bits, x64/amd64 - 64 bits).
According to the current reports, the issue is, apparently, NOT related to a specific Avast build number, nor to a specific Avast “edition” (Free, Pro, AIS…).
If users keep updating and reporting their experiences here in this topic, we might be able to help Avast Team to find out the problem, resolve it, and avoid it in the future.
If someone can think of additional tests that have not been reported yet, I am open to suggestions, before I decide to perform the program update.
So, please keep reporting changes. A user that sees either the same behaviour, or a different behaviour, from those described here by several different users, in relation to tray notifications while being around the period of time that we should expect a new stable program update availability tray notification, is VERY welcome and is needed.
Not many frequent forum users actually wait for those program update tray notifications. Instead, they update manually when they already know there is an available program update. So each user’s experience reported here can count so to help resolve this.
TIA.