Jack (and SafeSurf), I already answered these questions in this same topic.

Avast will request to reboot in case it is needed, independently of the method of installation or program update. There is even a specific setting for this. So, no matter what, the reboot is there (unless the USER decides not to).

Whether there is a manual program update, a program notification being clicked so to perform the program update, an automatic program update, or a clean install, the database is also updated in every of these cases. So there is no need to recheck the database, or perform a new database update, or manually reboot if Avast has not requested to. It “might” be useful for some cases (troubleshooting something) to reboot anyway, but generally speaking Avast makes it clear when the reboot is a “must”, and it also updates the database on every program update.

To be clear, all the above mentioned is indeed performed, but NOT ALWAYS NOTIFIED (this IS part of the current discrepancies). For some users, they receive all the notifications. For others, only one. For others, the other one only. For some, NO notification and no program update. ALL these users have the almost the same settings and are in the same “period” of the updating cycle. I already explained the details of each case, several times. Hence: discrepancies.

As I mentioned, all these was already answered, as an OFF-TOPIC. And now we are talking about this again, just because this issue was somehow “skipped” by the readers of my long explanations.

All this is NOT part of this particular topic. Not only users keep posting off-topics (that may be still useful), but also others keep complaining about this long topic without any real contribution (even after I gathered the relevant posts and opened a new “clean” topic so to solve their complaints).

The bottom line: the 2 REAL issues of this topic are not resolved, and it is on the hands of AVAST TEAM now. I don’t really know if this is actually going to be solved, because they haven’t actually comment in relation to any of the reports.