DavidR
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I don’t believe avast actually tells the WSC anything, it gets its information directly from the avast files. Avast will also detect that the database is out of date after 7 days.
So either you periodically update the database or what happens is avast believes the time frame between when it was last updated and now is too large to do incremental updates. So you may have to download the complete database, which is in excess of 30MB. So it may be worthwhile to just boot the netbook periodically, weekly or fortnightly to a) recharge the battery and b) update avast, etc.
You could obviously have the WSC not monitor the AV status, but that in itself is a security risk.
I would also suggest that you update to the latest version of avast 6.0.1000.