VRDB...how do you know its done??

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Hi…
how do you know that VRDB is done???
i ran screen saver and after 1 hour checked hoping there might be some type of message but i can’t find anywhere that it was done or not.
so how you find out about this??

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you will know when you open up avast…there’s a date indicating when the VRDB is generated…

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I changed option to “generate VRDB when computer is idle” and waited for 10 minutes,nothing happened,no activity.

why its not working???

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Hi, I’m newbies here… and I have the same question could anyone out can help us through?

Do I need to enable VRDB all the time? Or is it one time task only?

Thank you.

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adiel & stalkie, welcome.

When you open up avast’s Simple User Interface, there should be some dates. One of the lines is “Virus recovery database (VRDB) mm/dd/yy”. Do either of you have a date listed there? If so, then VRDB has already run & it wont run again for three weeks. Also, have a look at this thread or this one. They both talk about VRDB & how to change the VRDB run schedule from 3 weeks to 1 week.

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@Amerk_5
thanks…it was done,now i only have to edit the ini file.

Thanks for the help.