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

[Joel Deutsch]

I seem to remember this either from earlier versions or another, similar 
program that does require a restart after changing certain things in its 
files. Maybe I was recalling another program, not this one.

From: "Scott Spaulding" <spaulding.scott at gmail.com>
To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] AVG Update: Reboot/restart necessary?


It's never instructed me to reboot, so I don't know why you would have to.

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From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 1:42 PM
To: GUI-Talk
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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