You already know this is not the case of the average target user. I am not talking about 1 specific user. IMO, the important thing I am trying to bring up is that the program update notifications need to be improved. Too fast is not good, but “months” after the release is not good either.

I actually have a “conspiracy theory” :). I think that the real problem (for such a big delay) is not related to Avast servers and costs of distribution. I tend to think that the problem was (is?) that Avast 6.x was having too many conflicts to distribute it to “all” users. So Avast Software decided to release one version to part of the servers, take care of the conflicts during a couple of months, release a new update to some other servers… I’m not going to get into the pros and cons of it. In the end, it is only a “conspiracy theory” and nothing relevant :).

As I said, bottom line: the program update tray notifications need improvements.