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Trident said:
Can’t really say anything here because I don’t check these teeny-tiny details. My dev head just doesn’t process why you would add a setting for something and this setting won’t be applied, and you won’t spot your bugs…
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In BD's case (especially paid versions), I think it's just overengineered, bug fix upon bug fix etc. The protection is obviously there, it's just the other head scratching issues of "what happened, why is this now, or not..."?
 
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Parkinsond said:
For me, it is; only @SeriousHoax who is facing issues.
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I didn't face issue. I said that Avast will always check for signature updates after booting the system. After that check, the update interval setting is respected. So, the setting is active for the active session. Most AVs check for signature updates at startup so you can say it's expected behavior.
 
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stonjean633 said:
How big are the actual Avast Updates in average? Those are incremental updates which Gen calls stream updates usually in KB in theory. Only containing the delta.
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Very funny story there. The one who invented these was Norton with their Pulse updates. They were 5-6 kb files usually, pushed every 5-15 min.

When Norton came up with the Statit Data Scanner, those were killed and updates were once a day, as this was similar approach to McAfee and Trend. Hybrid of traditional and next gen.

Avast in the meantime implemented the streaming updates (similar concept) to ease their infrastructure.

Now Norton is back with the “streaming” updates.

They are kilobytes per update but the entire database is updated as well. It’s about 250 mb.
 
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stonjean633 said:
How big are the actual Avast Updates in average? Those are incremental updates which Gen calls stream updates usually in KB in theory. Only containing the delta.
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On softpedia, B database is larger than that of Avast.
But with Avast, update process is fast, consuming less cpu and ram, and no decline of c drive space by aprox 0.5 GB (retrieved on restart) as with B.

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stonjean633 said:
How big are the actual Avast Updates in average? Those are incremental updates which Gen calls stream updates usually in KB in theory. Only containing the delta.
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The download size is tiny. 460 MB of data is written on the disk by the on-device updating process.
Edit: Not talking about streaming updates btw. It's about their VPS update.
 
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lokamoka820 said:
Have you checked whether the Windows Task Scheduler has scheduled tasks to update Avast software upon login, despite Avast's settings?
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I have not checked this. Unfortunately, I cannot check at the moment as I have gone back to ESET Smart Security Premium today. Avast has bug where it fails to load a website for one second showing a browser error as if my DNS has blocked it, then it automatically reloads. Doesn't happen always but happens sometimes. But that wasn't the reason to uninstall. I installed Avast for testing only and my testing was complete.
Maybe @Parkinsond can check if there's a scheduled task.
 
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SeriousHoax said:
Avast has bug where it fails to load a website for one second showing a browser error as if my DNS has blocked it, then it automatically reloads
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Thank you for explaining; I was wondering why Yandex reloads the page with an error message; I thought it's Yandex fault.

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SeriousHoax said:
Maybe @Parkinsond can check if there's a scheduled task.
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No entries for Avast there.

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Parkinsond said:
One more bug

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This is a fairly common cosmetic issue since the early days of Windows 11, which I can note also happens with Cloudflare WARP. It's a combination of Windows 11 handling legacy APIs and apps choosing their own tooltip implementations.

It's more apt to happen when an app uses custom tooltip drawing for its tray icon. The app displays one helpful tooltip on purpose, but Windows still shows another empty tooltip nearby.
 
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Miravi said:
This is a fairly common cosmetic issue since the early days of Windows 11, which I can note also happens with Cloudflare WARP. It's a combination of Windows 11 handling legacy APIs and apps choosing their own tooltip implementations.

It's more apt to happen when an app uses custom tooltip drawing for its tray icon. The app displays one helpful tooltip on purpose, but Windows still shows another empty tooltip nearby.
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First time to notice; used Avast several times, it was not there.
 
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