??? This might be a dumb question but going to ask anyway…
I installed avast on my new laptop 3 months ago and I saw on avast Virus recovery database VRDB not done yet
What does that mean? I already had boot scan and found nothing.
I right clicked on i blue ball and set it at generate VRDB only when screensaver is rinning
I’d wonder why it says not done yet?
Thanks! hugs, Rose :
hi ramblinrose!
well, the vrdb collects information about executables on your computer. it has not to be done very often.
i would recommend to start it manually via rightclicking the icon - Generate VRDB now!
this takes some time, but you can work normally while it is generated… also if you shut down your computer nothing is damadged.
i heared something about that the VRDB is not generating automatically on vista or something like that…
probably someone else can help you further
yours
onlysomeone
ramblinrose, are you using Vista in this laptop or XP as in your signature?
Do you use a screensaver?
Hi I just got done updating my profile…
Yes this is vista in my new laptop…sorry forgot to mention it.
I used a screensaver from windows called ribbons
What do I have to do? hugs, Rose
Well, I started Generate VRDB now as suggested by onlysomeone.
I hope that is all I have to do so far.
Wonder how long that will takes?
Just a thought…avast is compatible with vista? Then why won’t generate automatically?
Thanks! hugs, Rose
;D Letting you know that it stopped generate now and it wasn’t too bad after all. No more not done yet.
Thank you! hugs, Rose
Hi Rose :
I stopped re-generating my VRDB after I saw “Vlk” Post the following "
"in reality, the VRDB technology is going to be phased out soon. There are multiple motivations behind this, but the main one is that the malware landscape has changed dramatically since VRDB was first designed (~ year 2001) and we have to admit that its usefulness is now questionable (there have been only a very few file infecting viruses in the last couple of years, and I believe that none of these could actually be cleaned by means of the VRDB).
To that end, I’m afraid that instead of fixing VRDB for Vista, we will rather remove it from the other OS’s . We were hoping this change could wait till v5, but maybe it will be made even sooner.
Cheers
Vlk "
This was posted by him on June 17, 2008
:o ??? What now? Wait and see?
It works only on ‘idle’ and not the screensaver mode.
Depends on how much executable files you have in your computer.
Ok I changed it to generate VRDB when computer is idle then.
Thank you…Rose
Hi Rose
This setting may cause the VRDB to be generated even when you are using the computer because Vista shields user activity from VRDB generator so avast! thinks the PC is idle when it’s not. Manual might be better. (I have VRDB disabled and icons merged on all PC’s I setup now.)
cheers
i also do it in this way…
VRDB is not so important that it always has to be built when the computer is idle (or not).
it should be enought to do it manually when there is time to do it…
i don’t think that you arent save if you don’t generate it for some months…
yours
onlysomeone
i don’t think that you arent save if you don’t generate it for some months…(onlysomeone)
I am not sure what you mean by that. So If I disable VRDB on my laptop (Vista)… how often should I manually update VRDB?
Even with VRDB disabled…it means avast still protect my computer?? Does that goes for Windows XP too?? Just making sure I understand…
Thank you for helping me out…Vladimyr, onlysomeone, Tech, and Spiritsongs. I’d appreciated it. I will check back later.
hugs to all, Rose
Well the VRDB is at best like system restore, a) it isn’t a system back-up, b) sometimes it doesn’t work as you would expect, see below.
It doesn’t monitor (include in generations) all files, typically just monitors .exe files (e.g. those most likely to be infected), so the rest technically aren’t protected by it. Only files infected by true viruses/worms, e.g. have a little bit of infected code put ‘in’ the file can be repaired (the repair function is what uses the VRDB data. So trojans can’t be repaired even if they happened to be .exe files.
So the value of the VRDB from when it was first introduced is slowly depreciating and as far as I’m aware it won’t be in avast version 5.0.
Yes you are still protected by avast even if the VRDB is disabled, it just means that in the sace of certainf files, if they became infected couldn’t be repaired as that requires the use of the VRDB generation database. Remembering what I said above this is limited to certain files. I do manual generations of the VRDB at the same interval as the default, 21 days interval, so every third week as a part of my regular system maintenance I do a VRDB Generate Now.
I have had avast for almost five years and I haven’t used the VRDB once to repair a file, why, I haven’t had a virus infection that infected a file covered by the VRDB. In fact I haven’t had any infection. However, I would say that my browsing habits, proactive measures, multi-level protection and multi-application approach to my security stand me in very good stead and if all else fails I have a robust back-up and recovery strategy.
You would be surprised just how far common sense will go towards keeping you protected, prevention is much better than cure.
Amen!
On my Vista computer, I no longer generate the VRDB at all. On My XP computers, I only generate the VRDB manually every month after patch Tuesday.
Thank you! I learned something new…very interesting. I’d appreciated it…hugs, Rose
You’re welcome.