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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: clydeb11 on April 26, 2004, 07:57:33 PM
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about twice a week i get a virus database update. could someone explain exactly what's happening? are new viruses being found that often and the database is updated to protect against all the new viruses popin' up?
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Hi,
Yes, unfortunately new viruses are popping up all the time -- I recall seeing somewhere a figure on how many new ones per day, but the number escapes me right now.
Thank the avast team for doing a great job of keeping up to date with the definitions updates -- two a week is downright quiet for us. ;) There's been times when two or even three new sets of definitions have been issued the same day, if there's a flood of new viruses in-the-wild.
Best,
Mike