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

[Joel Deutsch]

Thank you very much. That helps a lot.

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





Hi, Joel,

If just the virus definitions themselves are updated, usually no
reboot is necesary. AVG will let you know if it needs a reboot for
the updates to become effective. This is usually necessary if any one
or more of the program components have been updated with a newer
version. For example, AVG might update part of its user interface or
email scanner or whatever and then it might ask you to reboot.

hth

Doris

At 10:41 AM 1/1/2007 -0800, you wrote:

>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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