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Offline DavidR

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Re: Streaming updates
« Reply #45 on: March 22, 2015, 01:14:12 AM »
Quote from: Alikhan on March 22, 2015, 01:09:12 AM
Quote from: DavidR on March 22, 2015, 01:06:42 AM
Don't lose sight of the fact you should still be getting the VPS updates, the fact that avast no longer displays the auto update notification.

Essentially we are in the same position that we were before the streaming updates were introduced.

Correct. Though, it is still less protection than the stream defs which are in the current VPS.

No less so than we where before - whilst it is great to get the streaming updates - we survived quite well before.

Does it need fixed, yes, but lets not lose perspective on this.
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Re: Streaming updates
« Reply #46 on: March 22, 2015, 01:45:22 AM »
well true that its not that big of a deal, it should still be working, would be nice to hear from avast about this.
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Re: Streaming updates
« Reply #47 on: March 22, 2015, 05:33:17 AM »
seems to be working now
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Re: Streaming updates
« Reply #48 on: March 22, 2015, 05:57:55 PM »
Streaming was working okay at some point last night, but as of 15:02pm GMT today it has stopped working AGAIN! Come on Avast!, get it together... what's the point of a streaming service if it doesn't even work... smh.
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Re: Streaming updates
« Reply #49 on: March 22, 2015, 06:01:53 PM »
321 streaming updates received the past 24 hours. Midwest USA.
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Re: Streaming updates
« Reply #50 on: March 22, 2015, 06:06:38 PM »
It doesn't matter how many times people post about how many updates were received in 24 hours, I also have 300ish... but it doesn't matter because the servers seem to have gone down again... I'm receiving the "connection not established" garbage again and haven't received an update in the past 2 hours. The streaming services are supposed to be running constantly and this is the 5th day now that the servers just die randomly, and unusually at around the same time that it has the previous days.

What is going on, man?
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Re: Streaming updates
« Reply #51 on: March 22, 2015, 06:13:51 PM »
Maybe there is maintenance being done on their servers :-\ I wouldn't worry about it too much as you used to only get three or four updates a day ( some AV's only give two updates daily ), two or three hours without isn't really a problem.
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Re: Streaming updates
« Reply #52 on: March 22, 2015, 06:22:18 PM »
Quote from: CraigB on March 22, 2015, 06:13:51 PM
Maybe there is maintenance being done on their servers :-\ I wouldn't worry about it too much as you used to only get three or four updates a day ( some AV's only give two updates daily ), two or three hours without isn't really a problem.

A maintenance for 5 days in a row? Don't think so, man. Also... whatever this problem is, seems to be also affecting the stability of the program... ever since this problem started sometimes when I refresh Avast shields the Web Shield will delay or even refuse to start up again until I manually restart it. I've been doing tests too to determine the cause, it is ONLY the Web Shield and it also seems to happen whenever the servers are down. When I manually restart the shields when everything is normal, it never happens.

I believe this is because whenever you manually restart the shields, or particularly the web shield... the program attempts to connect to the streaming servers and fails to do so because they are down. As whenever I do restart them whenever the update service claims the "connection is not established", after this the connection becomes established again but then drops moments after.

And I'm not talking about the VPS updates btw, they still work. (Albeit when a new update comes there is no _stream folder attached to a new VPS folder) And yeah, you usually only get maybe 1-4 a day, but this is the streaming updates I'm talking about and you get a LOT more of those/day than the VPS, I've monitored Avast! for a while now and the streaming updates usually come in every 10-15 mins and constantly throughout the day, but for the past 5 days now it has been giving none at certain points of the day.

Can Avast! staff not even acknowledge this or something? Or at least tell their consumers that there is a problem? There's been no mention of it whatsoever... that's good customer service...

EDIT: Done more testing on the web shield problem I'm having and I can reproduce the problem. I try to manually update - via the Update > Virus Definitions tab > already up-to-date (connection not established) > turn off Web Shield and try to restart it > It crashes for about 3-4 seconds and then avast still states it is off > press the OFF button to ON again, this time it works.

Please don't bother trying to tell me it's a problem with my program and that I need to "repair" it, this problem WAS NOT here before this problem began. I've been able to manually restart the shields flawlessly, for the longest time now and I was not able to duplicate the problem when the servers were up.
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Re: Streaming updates
« Reply #53 on: March 22, 2015, 06:43:38 PM »
Hello.

No streaming updates here in Luxembourg since 18.03.2015 21h56!! Normal updates are OK!!

Connection OK, connection lost (streams)

Bye bye.
« Last Edit: March 22, 2015, 06:46:49 PM by Romain2 »
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Re: Streaming updates
« Reply #54 on: March 22, 2015, 08:32:53 PM »
I have not recived any streaming up dates for the past three days. I get the normal updates but as another comunity member points out streaming updates are a part of the program. I posted this problem in the feedback to. It would be nice if at least some employe at avast could at least comment to this problem in this forum so that we all get an explanation so that this ongoing discussion at least got an official comment. Ofcourse this is not the end of the world but it keeps my mind on a thing that I shouldn´t have to worry about. Hopefully a fix is coming soon. With as avast claims that they have 200 000 000 users we should be taken seriously.  >:(
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Re: Streaming updates
« Reply #55 on: March 25, 2015, 07:12:48 AM »
Still having problems with streaming. Seemed okay last night, was receiving streams frequently. but as of like midnight yesterday stopped working again. Anyone else still having issues?
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Re: Streaming updates
« Reply #56 on: March 25, 2015, 10:41:06 AM »
From New Zealand. Streaming updates seems to be working correctly now. Connection always says established.
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Re: Streaming updates
« Reply #57 on: March 25, 2015, 10:52:53 AM »
No streaming updates in last 4hours.
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Re: Streaming updates
« Reply #58 on: March 25, 2015, 06:29:10 PM »
Quote from: DavidR on March 20, 2015, 04:01:11 PM
Quote from: Mike23 on March 20, 2015, 03:28:21 PM
My files reveal the following... (None before or after these 2.)
1503100, dated 19th 3rd @ 9.31 PM, (AEDT) is 100 Meg.
1503200, dated 21st 3rd @ 1.06 AM, is also 100 Meg.

Why so large?
&... can I remove the old/er one/s if not needed to increase my disc space?
or...Do they auto-destruct?

(Hi GJ.)

The avast C:\Program Files\AVAST Software\Avast\defs folder contains the complete virus definitions (VPS) when there is a new VPS update, that is an incremental update - that and the current VPS folder are combined into a new VPS folder.

So the new VPS folder isn't downloaded in its entirety - you don't need to remove the old one - the avast housekeeping will periodically remove the old VPS folder, leaving only the current one.

See image attached of my defs sub-folder, housekeeping has already cleaned up.

Thank you David.

But, I just checked again & here's the latest news from "Down Under, in Oz"...

1/. 15032400 on  25-3-2015 @ 12.58 AM = 101 Meg.
2/. 15032401 on  25-3-2015 @ 8.40 PM = 101 Meg.
3/. 15032500 on  26-3-2015 @ 12.43 AM = 101 Meg.

Darn large data bases. ;)

Mind you, they aren't slowing down the PC....Just curious as to why they were so large & if they self destructed.

Ta mucherly.
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Re: Streaming updates
« Reply #59 on: March 25, 2015, 06:45:00 PM »
Hm, Streaming updates seem to work fine for me. The date and time is very recent in my avast!...
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