Updates

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
1

Updates do not work. It appears that the problem is I do not have an internet connection, but I have…and the Firewall options are ok…
Thank you

2

What is your firewall ?
Does it allow avast.setup internet access ?

  • If it does delete the entry for it and do a manual update and this should force the firewall to ask permission again.
3

Another problem with bilt-in firewall in Windows Vista.
VPS don’t updated automatically after disable all outgoing connection for default, and add exeption below:
%ProgramFiles%\Alwil Software\Avast4\Setup\avast.setup
%ProgramFiles%\Alwil Software\Avast4\VisthUpd.exe
%ProgramFiles%\Alwil Software\Avast4\aswUpdSv.exe
%ProgramFiles%\Alwil Software\Avast4\aswRegSvr.exe
%ProgramFiles%\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashUpd.exe

The manual update (from menu) ended success.
How to be configure the firewall for automatically update VPS ?

4

Sorry I don’t use Vista, so no Vista firewall experience.

If the manual update succeeds then in theory the auto update should too as it uses the same functionality.

It may be that your connection isn’t fully established when avast checks for the update, there is a possibility you could delay that check and get around that, but lets try this first:

In the avast program Settings (right click the avast ‘a’ icon), Update (Connections), Proxy button, set the proxy option to 'Direct Connection (no proxy) and see if that helps.

5

This problem is due to the fact that the third-party program removes the entry of component exceptions FireWall:
% ProgramFiles% \ Alwil Software \ Avast4 \ Setup \ avast.setup
because the file is not physically on the disk.
The problem was solved, each time restoring system registry entry.
What is this mysterious component, and where it is physically located?

6

I have no idea what that 3rd party program, but it certainly isn’t avast.

You say that this is removing “the entry of component exceptions FireWall” which wouldn’t be protected by avast as it is under the control of the firewall/OS. Unless you are using some 3rd party firewall control to manage the non to friendly Vista Firewall outbound protection ?

But you also say “The problem was solved, each time restoring system registry entry.” The avast self-defence module should be protecting its own registry entries.

So I’m a little confused as to exactly where these entries are located, in registry (under the vista firewall, otherwise avast self-defence should protect) or in the vista firewall exceptions.