You can check the sive of the data file containing the VRDB Generation, integrity info, C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\DATA\integ\avast.int. Mine is 7,626KB but this would vary depending on your system, .exe files that the VRDB monitors and compiles the VRDB integrity data on.
Don't try opening this file to see what is in it as modification could corrupt it, see image. Though the avast self-defence module should prevent that.
Oops! Just searched for that file before I read this and did find it - I did however click on the "integ" folder and looked at the contents (the "avast.int" file) but did not click on (open) the "avast.int" file - mainly because I don't know what a ".int" file is (another abreviation of "integrity", I guess) and figured I'd get a message telling me Windows doesn't know how to open a ".int" file.
The file is 9,286 KB in this case.
So I suppose I haven't corrupted the file, since never tried to open the "avast.int" file itself. Correct?
Thanks for all the responses. Very helpful forum. I have another issue with avast! which I'll post now in a separate thread in this forum.
I have a question about this page, though - the page in which I am typing this response.
Instead of seeing the images on this page, I am instead seeing red "x"s where the images should be.
I started noticing this problem recently on some other sites.
If I right click on the red "x", and then select "Show Picture", it converts that red "x" to it's picture.
Can someone tell me what may be causing this? Is it something in the avast! program that thinks it is protecting my computer - this one is Windows XP Home - by not letting the pictures initialize?
ADDITION to above - Just went to the forum page and read this post of mine. The forum page had all the images initalize correctly - no red "x"s.
I then went back to the page where I am typing this message for posting - this time ALL of the images have initialized correctly - no red "x"s.
This is the same page I refer to above, which had red "x"s instead of images (all of the emoticons were red x's, etc.).
Is it just that the page stopped downloading before all of it had intialized?