As I alluded to on my other comment on that other thread somewhere ...
Wayyy over in my beginning days with avast, the Update downloads were about what they are now, as far as time ... around the 15 minute range.
Then at some later point, as you all may remember, avast performed that huge change to their Virus Definitions database whereby they did a lot of consolidating and the Virus Definitions Updates then became wayyy more Dial Up downloading-friendly. They were then only about 5 minutes on my computer.
I enjoyed that for a long time. But, in more recent times, the download time is now back to what it was before.
It's made me wonder whether avast is at some point going to perform another one of those Virus Definitions consolidations like before.
That would be great.
True, my computer's System Resources / RAM are extremely on the low side, practically nonexistent.
But, then again, they've always been that and at one time the Updates downloads were much quicker.
And I don't even add any Apps to my computer.
Any Apps that I decide to use, I'll use them only if I can find a Portable version so it won't take up space on my Hard Drive.
How does one find out the size of a Virus Definitions Download?