Streaming updates on my laptop have become extremely slow. VPS 130627-00 is the current at this time. The laptop is connecting to r-055-043-234-077.ff.avast.com for updates and the connection is established and stable. However, the streaming update is only one every 4-5 minutes. Currently, it has 25 streaming updates. Granted, the laptop has been off for a while, but has been on long enough to catch up with the streaming updates if they would come down like they used to.
We go through the same server and I’m also experiencing serious disruptions to streaming updates. This is three days this week without reliable streaming updates. I’m currently sitting at zero streaming updates for the day.
No reliable streaming updates her for two or three days (zero today) tho “Connection established” has been very intermittent. 130627-1 just arrived but when Cloud Intelligence can’t connect, that’s concerning. In my limited experience with avast! 8 so far, this happens because they’re improving things. I just wish they would have a “network status” page where they would post up down times and ETAs. But considering 99.9% of avast! users don’t have a clue how to notice this behavior, why bother? Carry on!
It’s a problem. The desktop and laptop have updated to VPS 130627-01. The laptop updated at 4:13 PM EST, and it is now 6:51 PM with no streaming updates, while the desktop has 60 new streaming updates. The two machines are connecting to different streaming servers, so that’s a partial explanation. However, both are now using different servers than before. Note that the OS is different, with the laptop on Win7 Pro SP1 and the desktop on WinXP Pro SP3.
This means that the laptop is missing the latest protection offered by the streaming updates.
Edit to add…
Finally. Both machines now have 74 streaming updates.
Hopelessly slow!
I have been attempting to download & install “vps_32-b62.vpx” for 2 days now. Yesterday I got tired of waiting and went to sleep allowing my computer to continue that download. In the morning, it was ‘almost’ completed. When the download line got to the end, my Avast software must have stalled. I waited 45 minutes and finally gave. up. After canceling the update, Avast showed a smiley face and declared that my software had been successfuly updated. Guess what? The next day I received a message that the package was broken. I had a similar update experience within the past week.
After last night’s failure, it was necessary to reinstall Avast from scratch. Everything ws going well until I got to the point of downloading the same file, “vps_32-b62.vpx”. An hour & a half after starting my computer showed that half of the file had been downloaded. How big is this file anyway?!!!
This is ridiculous.
I am not having problems with anything else on my computer.
The streaming updates, which this topic is about is completely different from the regular virus definition updates that you are talking about.
It would be best for you to start your own new topic (rather than go of-topic in this one) if this doesn’t resolve it:
Manual update of VPS - avast! Virus Definitions Update - Manual Download VPS Update (virus definitions, vpsupd.exe, approx 93.4 MB). - Save the file to your hard disk, locate where you saved it and double click it and that should carry out the virus definitions update. That usually resolves the ‘package is broken’ error stopping regular updates.