<snip> is there a notice of a reboot after a program update, or does Avast reboot on its own follow an update
When the user either manually clicks update program or does a clean install, at the end of the installation process Avast asks the user Avast needs to reboot...would you like to reboot now? The user has the option of saying "Yes" or "No." It it recommended to reboot now and what the Evang. been saying.
<snip> does Avast reboot on its own follow an update, with BOTH Virus Definitions and Program Update Settings set on Automatic?"
Virus Definitions need to be done manually after a clean install. If doing an upgrade, you can either wait for the next virus update from Avast or do a manual update at that point to make sure you have the latest definitions, then go with the Automatic updates. If you are doing an upgrade, you're best bet is to look at the main GUI screen since it will give you the information you need -- tell you if you are up to date on your Program and Virus Definitions.
It is prudent for users to not rely solely on a toolbar icon, but to also open the GUI once in a while to see what is in it, especially with security software IMO. Do others ignore their firewall toolbar icons and never open the GUI? I don't, and I open Avast GUI as well. If you look at my Signature, I have other security software that I need to open their GUI. Toolbars are simply toolbars and they do not replace GUI's.
Jack (and SafeSurf), I already answered these questions in this same topic.
Avast will request to reboot in case it is needed, independently of the method of installation or program update. There is even a specific setting for this. So, no matter what, the reboot is there (unless the USER decides not to).
Whether there is a manual program update, a program notification being clicked so to perform the program update, an automatic program update, or a clean install, the database is also updated in every of these cases. So there is no need to recheck the database, or perform a new database update, or manually reboot if Avast has not requested to. It "might" be useful for some cases (troubleshooting something) to reboot anyway, but generally speaking Avast makes it clear when the reboot is a "must", and it also updates the database on every program update.
To be clear, all the above mentioned is indeed performed, but NOT ALWAYS NOTIFIED (this *IS* part of the current discrepancies). For some users, they receive all the notifications. For others, only one. For others, the other one only. For some, NO notification and no program update. ALL these users have the almost the same settings and are in the same "period" of the updating cycle. I already explained the details of each case, several times. Hence: discrepancies.
As I mentioned, all these was already answered, as an OFF-TOPIC. And now we are talking about this again, just because this issue was somehow "skipped" by the readers of my long explanations.
All this is NOT part of this particular topic. Not only users keep posting off-topics (that may be still useful), but also others keep complaining about this long topic without any real contribution (even after I gathered the relevant posts and opened a new "clean" topic so to solve
their complaints).
The bottom line: the 2 REAL issues of this topic are not resolved, and it is on the hands of AVAST TEAM now. I don't really know if this is actually going to be solved, because they haven't actually comment in relation to any of the reports.