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UPDATE Just For General Information
Inspite of the complete absence of Avast Team members giving ANY kind of answer >:( , or at least a contribution to the issue, I kept testing.
As said, using “manual” updates, Avast is not checking for available updates anymore, as it used to (before 6.0.1289). I’m OK with this (not specifically logged) changed, and might be very useful in several situations.
Now, with “ask”, the availability of updates is still performed and informed, both in tray notifications and in the main GUI (using the correspondent settings).
Under these settings, if the updates are not applied, it took me more than a complete day (but less than 48hs) to finally see the “unsecured”, both in the main GUI and over the tray icon. Since Windows Security (Action) Center is set to be triggered after several days more, the “unsecured” is only on Avast side (not Windows). This also demonstrates that the 2 “unsecured” are different and independent from each other.
It is still not clear what exactly triggers the “unsecured” status. It may be a combination of several possible items (and talking here about engine and database updates; program updates influence not tested):
_ time since latest applied update;
_ number of reboots;
_ number of update attempts;
_ number of updates available since the currently (older) applied database.
So, the “unsecured” is triggered “somehow, at some (unknown) time”. It is still not clear which conditions trigger it. And of course, I still think it takes “too long” for it to be triggered.