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Offline Syllinx

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Avast keeps telling me there is an update.
« on: February 20, 2023, 04:24:14 PM »
The version I can download from your site is 23.1.7883.0 but the program tells me the update available is 23.1.7883.773. Any idea when link will be updated?

https://www.avast.com/download-thank-you.php?product=FAV-AVAST&locale=en-ww&direct=1
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Offline Dinobot2

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Re: Avast keeps telling me there is an update.
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2023, 05:11:04 PM »
Hmm, i'm still on version .772.

Offline MrDJ

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Re: Avast keeps telling me there is an update.
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2023, 01:56:00 PM »
The version I can download from your site is 23.1.7883.0 but the program tells me the update available is 23.1.7883.773. Any idea when link will be updated?

https://www.avast.com/download-thank-you.php?product=FAV-AVAST&locale=en-ww&direct=1

i believe it depends where you live and what version of avast you are using. ive heard it is rolled out in batches.
my 773 update came late last week and before the update it totally buggered up my pc for around 8 hours until i found the update and then everything worked fine again.
strangely desktop background dissapeared, all folders on desktop said i did not have permission to open. then said i did not have admin permission. was almost ready to do a clean win 10 install and last thing i checked was avast updater.
ran the update, restarted and everything worked again and has been fine ever since. very strange.

go UI > menu > settings > update > check for updates. ive got set to auto update but mine was sitting there in red to update now.

Clevo P502 Laptop i7 3720QM 2.60GHz, 16gb ram, Nvidia GTX 680M, Crucial 512 SSD, Windows 10 Pro 64bit, over 12 years old and still super fast.

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Re: Avast keeps telling me there is an update.
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2023, 03:46:41 PM »
See https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=322545.msg1700587#msg1700587 my response and the posts above it by Kalman above it.

However, I would have thought patches like this would have been handled by the emergency updater function for bug fixes, etc.  However, this doesn't appear to be the case, looks like it is being handled by the regular program update function/check.  That may indicate that it might not be considered widespread or serious (my guess not Avast's).

The version I can download from your site is 23.1.7883.0 but the program tells me the update available is 23.1.7883.773. Any idea when link will be updated?

https://www.avast.com/download-thank-you.php?product=FAV-AVAST&locale=en-ww&direct=1

The two numbers in the quoted text I have Italicised could well be the same as the first 23.1.7883.0 is a program version number were the second 23.1.7883.773, I believe is the Build number available.
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