kryton,
This would only occur if the incoming packets are no longer being received.
What I would ask you to do is to try the manual update again and watch closely to see if your computer is attempting to communicate with the Avast server. (Watch the tray icons, or if using a firewall....open it, and monitor the traffic screen). This will tell us if the "pings" are being sent and received.
If they stop, then the Avast server will consider communication lost and cease sending. However, remember that Avast will automatically and periodically seek a connection again if you have Update set to Auto download. It sounds like that is the situation here.
Then after running the test, send me your ?:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\setup file, and the ?:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\Data\log\setup, they may reveal what caused the delay. Cut/paste only the day you run the test I asked for above. That's all I need to review. Send them via IM or Private message
A remote possibility is that you may have another program temporarily seizing control of the port Avast wants to use for the download. We can work on that later. I need to ascertain which port is normally used.
Technical brought up a good point. While Avast seems to be taking a "snooze", can you do anything else on your system such as surf the net...use any other programs etc?
Technical and I have virtually the same system setup as you so we should be able to help you.
techie
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