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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: markus0r on September 23, 2004, 08:41:05 AM

Title: is it true?
Post by: markus0r on September 23, 2004, 08:41:05 AM

is it true that the update of avast is always only 3 or 5 kb small/big?

and that i just need some seconds although i just have 56k-dial-up-modem?

im confused because all others AV i had needed 1,8mb to update..

Title: Re:is it true?
Post by: Vlk on September 23, 2004, 08:45:16 AM

Yes, a typical size of a virus DB update is between 3-30KB.
Some more info here: http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html#4

Title: Re:is it true?
Post by: CharleyO on September 23, 2004, 09:23:20 AM

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markus0r - I am also on dial-up and I can assure you that it only takes seconds for a normal update. I do not think it's taken more than a minute even for program updates!    :D  

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Title: Re:is it true?
Post by: watchthisspace on September 23, 2004, 09:36:23 AM

How can the updates be so small? compared to AV's updates that are 1.8mb?

Title: Re:is it true?
Post by: igor on September 23, 2004, 09:38:45 AM

A clever algorithm is used to transfer only the small parts that have really changed between the updates (and even those are additionally compressed, of course).

Title: Re:is it true?
Post by: watchthisspace on September 23, 2004, 09:55:07 AM

Cool  :)

Title: Re:is it true?
Post by: markus0r on September 23, 2004, 02:23:43 PM

well. very interesting

if the update is so small, i can just say: wohoo, nice work, dear programmers, avast! roxx the world :))