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Chim,
DavidR already posted 2 examples of avast tray notifications. You need to read closely what I wrote.
I didn't say avast will show you the progress, but the status. It depends on 2 (or 3 ) settings: update (auto/ask/manual), Pop ups (and in a few certain cases, also Status Bar).
If you perform a manual on line update, avast main GUI will show you the progress (avast main GUI -> maintenance -> update).
Now, let's say a month passed with no updates in your system. For the sake of this example, let's assume each day the definitions were updated twice, and each time the update was 400KB. Then
30 days x 2 times a day x 400KB per update = 24000KB
(in reality, the sum won't be that much, as many updates are much less than 400KB). Your concern would be valid if you would need to download around 24MB of updates, but that's not the case. Even in this hypothetical example, your update (after a month without updating your system) is going to be much (much, much) less. Avast doesn't need each and every "intermediate" update. It skips the unnecessary ones
. It may be bigger than 400KB for that one time, but it is
NOT going to be 24MB.
Once in a while, when the whole set of
cumulative updates is "too big", the update might be a one time big update. This case is VERY infrequent (almost never).
So watching a progress bar for a regular update is unnecessary, as it takes a few seconds, even with a slow dial up connection.
If you still want to see it, open avast main GUI -> maintenance -> update and perform a manual update from there. You will see the progress bar. But for automatic updates, there is no need, and you should see the final tray notification only.