virus in Avast update

[doc1]

I have a compaq persario with IE and Window XP
 I have been using avast for some time now and for some reason it seems to have stopped updating and on the rare occassion that it does do an update ,I see a lot of server errors
 Now for the last couple of days when I try to do an update of the program or the Ivas  either one I see a quick Jolly Roger vpu
 I thought there was a virus named the jolly roger could this be the same and could my avast be corrupted

[Eddy]

The JollyRoger vpu is part of the update process and definatly not a virus or harmfull in any other way. Check your Avast log files for errors and let us know if there are any and if so what errors. That will give us a change to solve a problem if there is any. Als tell us what vps you currently have, what version of Avast you are using and what OS including service pack(s) and what firewall you are using.

[DavidR]

As a temporary measure until you resolve the connection problem, you can use this link avast! VPS Update - Manual Download.