[gui-talk] AVG Update: Reboot/restart necessary?

[Don Moore]

You apparently do not.  if there's a major update that requires it they'll let you know.  There hasn't been one in quite a while.

Hope this helps.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "GUI-Talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 1:41 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] AVG Update: Reboot/restart necessary?


Hi all, and happy new year.

I've been using AVG Free Edition antivirus program for years now, over 
several versions, with no complaints, especially now that the current 
version's Control Center interface is more precisely navigable with Jaws 
than in previous versions.

But one thing puzzles me, and I can't find anything about it in the 
otherwise nicely designed AVG Help files. That is, do you have to reboot 
your computer after updating your virus definitions in order for the update 
to become effective? For some reason, I'm accustomed to thinking that, but 
I've begun to wonder if it may once have been a mandatory part of the drill 
but isn't, anymore. Each morning, my AVG updates itself from the online 
source and then tells me the update's been accomplished. And, though it 
doesn't tell me that now I must reboot my system in order for the updated 
definitions file to become effective, I exit all my running applications and 
reboot, anyway. Like, there's this memory I have that this program used to 
instruct me to reboot, and I can't get that out of my mind, whether or not 
the memory is accurate and, more important, whether or not rebooting is 
currently necessary, whether or not it once may have been.

Does anyone know? I certainly have gone to the AVG Free Edition help 
documentation and read through the slightly garbled but good-enough section 
on the Update function (I don't get the distinction between updating in the 
two or so different ways they talk about; if I feel moved to update 
manually, I just hit the button that tells AVG to go online and fetch and 
install an update if available. I don't understand those other options, 
because the documentation sucks at that point. I mean, is unclear. I worked 
as an instructional design writer of high tech documentation long enough to 
trust myself that I'm not misunderstanding anything due to my own 
stupidity), but there's not a word about rebooting. But that could be a 
careless omission on the part of the company. I just want to do the right 
thing.
thanks.

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