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

Mon Jan 1 13:42:56 CST 2007

Don,
Thanks for the clarification. It's reassuring to know that Grisoft is so 
helpful as to clearly notify the user about stuff like this, when things are 
released. Some companies wouldn't be so methodical and informative.

Second, may I ask how you know this stuff? Because, as I said, I looked at 
the help files, which was the only responsible inquiry I could think of 
making, and learned nothing like what you seem to know. Clue me in so I can 
stay better informed, too.

thanks.
liek qm----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Moore" <don.moore48 at comcast.net>
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Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] AVG Update: Reboot/restart necessary?

The daily updates don't require it, the occasional updates do.  Sometimes 
though in with the daily updates are component upgrades which don't get a 
number.  They let you know about those too.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
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Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] AVG Update: Reboot/restart necessary?

Don,

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. I wasn't talking about updates in the sense of
"upgrade," as we sometimes put it. You know, a new version of a program. I
was just referring to the updates of the program's virus definition files.
Again, I'm sorry if my use of the term "update" misled you into thinking I
meant upgrades and new versions of the application, which of course always
require a restart to complete installation. I was just using the word that
AVG itself uses to describe fetching and installing new virus definitions.

thanks for responding, and happy new year.
From: "Don Moore" <don.moore48 at comcast.net>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] AVG Update: Reboot/restart necessary?

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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