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That would not solve the problem:
_ “manual” database updates;
_ “Settings → Status Bar → Definitions auto updates” UNchecked;
_ “Settings → Status Bar → Virus definitions version” Checked.
No warnings in the Status Bar icon (exclamation mark) when a new database is available.
Now, it seems that an additional change was recently made. In past versions, Avast main GUI still knew when a new database was released under this same configuration (meaning, Avast was still checking for availability even in “manual”). It seems Avast is no longer checking for availability of a new database while using this combination of settings.
That’s fine. But the “Virus definitions version” setting of Status Bar still needs to work, or, to be more precise, the user expects this setting to work. Under the new behaviour of 6.0.1289, this setting is not going to do anything under “manual” updates (Avast doesn’t know if there is a new database available or not).
Again, this new situation is fine with me. But since I haven’t seen anything about this change in the changelog (or I missed it), I want to know exactly what this setting should do under the following 2 situations:
A.
_ “manual” database updates;
_ “Settings → Status Bar → Definitions auto updates” UNchecked;
_ “Settings → Status Bar → Virus definitions version” Checked.
B.
_ “ask” for database updates;
_ “Settings → Status Bar → Definitions auto updates” UNchecked;
_ “Settings → Status Bar → Virus definitions version” Checked.
In past versions, the “Virus definitions version” setting was NOT working in either #A nor #B.