Avast V8.0.1489 The definitions list dl stops at ´File saving: servers.def.vpx

[visionhelp]

Hi.
Avast Version 8.0.1489
The download the update the definitions list stops at ´File saving: servers.def.vpx´ until the message ´connection is broken´.

On other mainboard with single core CPU it still worked.
No more now a dual core CPU.
Despite uninstall and new install.

Newer versions - still for XP - I do not like, because of to less possible to set by myself. Despite this old version has some too much to set manual.

Thanks the interesst.

Sorry, very sorry, the Captcha not to read ... and nothing to hear ...

[DavidR]

Virus definition support for Avast versions 8, 9 and 10 have ceased.

You have posted in the Avast One for Windows sub forum and with Avast 8.0.1489 you couldn't have Avast One installed.
You should have posted in this sub-forum https://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2.0
You would have seen this topic at the top of the list - [EOL] Virus definition updates for Avast version 9/10/11 end in summer 2023. (EOL = End Of Life) - https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=324295.0

The last version for XP is 18.8 - and that is still supported for virus definition updates.
See https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=220639.msg1490445#msg1490445

[visionhelp]

Oh no, new captcha and the text is gone. W O U H. How EVIL.
(Now it weirdly stays ...)

Posted at Avast One: very sorry:
The forum is not very easy to find the different topics.
Myself I had to search with the search function.
And no note - no notification - about Your reply.
And this Captchas: very unhandable.

So, no more Avast for XP ... OK.
Oh sorry, I have to see me just rejected.
And have to expect this again once more ...
So, and sorry, a further good reason to leave Windows and come to Linux.

The last version should be here ? Thank You, very much. https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=220639.0

If 18.8 does slow XP too much, then I will perhaps go back to 8.0.1489, and then WITHOUT the definitions-update, sadnessly. If not able to find an alternative. So what.

[DavidR]

The captchas are an anti-spam measure (though it doesn't seem to stop them), but it is only there for the first 3 posts.

I don't know if spammers would be using some sort of screen reader to decipher/interpret the captcha screen.

As I said - Virus definition support for Avast versions 8, 9 and 10 have ceased.
XP is still supported, but no further than Avast program version 18.8, but is still supported for virus definition updates.

No windows program version is supported for Virus definitions, if still using Avast program version 8, 9 or 10

Should you jump to Linux, well there is no Avast program for regular users, only for business users

[visionhelp]

OK. Thanks very much the infos.

[DavidR]

You're welcome.