VPS5 discontinued

Releasing of the linux virus definitions version 5 (VPS5) has been terminated on 31.12.2016.

This means there will be no more VPS updates for the 1.x version of the Avast scan engine (the “avast” package).
If you still use this obsolete (the avast 2.x version using VPS9 was released 30.9.2015) version, you must upgrade
to the current 2.x version of Avast to get the latest virus definitions updates.

The upgrade is as easy as “yum update avast”/“apt-get update avast”, no manual intervention is required.