I have just recently installed Avast home edition, and am really liking the look and feel of this AV. It seems to be functioning great on my XP system. I did have a question though. I have Avast set up to automatically update the virus database. Anyway, I have had my system on for a few hours, and just for the heck of it, I clicked on the "update the virus database" button on the user interface. Sure enough it updated to 0312-9 16.01 .04. I was under the impression that it would do this automatically?? Is there a certain time that it is supposed to check? Or is it supposed to auto update as soon as there are defs available? I know when I installed Avast, it automatically updated itself as one of the first tasks done. Just curious about this. Thank you for the great forum!
Douglas