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

[Joel Deutsch]

ah! I'll bet what I'm remembering is from when I was running Windows 98 S E, 
and it required a reboot! Okay. Now I'm less mystified.
mystI'k
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Marthouse" <dmart at pure.net>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] AVG Update: Reboot/restart necessary?


It's interesting to note that here at home where I run a Windows-me system I
am asked to restart after every avg update.  On the 3 Windows-xp machines I
have the updates are done without asking for a reboot.

Dave Marthouse
dmart at pure.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Spaulding" <spaulding.scott at gmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 3:23 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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