avast! antivirus 5: if you updated your engine/virus definitions to 110411-1, then please update them to 110411-2
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/04/11
The 1104011-1 engine/virus definitions of Avast contains a problem; it marks a lot of web-sites as and programs as false positives ago.
Right now, their web-sites and download servers are flooded with people frantically trying to update.
Be patient, but do update when you can. The past has shown the flood doesn’t really take that long.
From their Facebook page:
A few minutes ago: 110411-2 UPDATE IS OUT! PLEASE UPDATE YOUR DATABASE.
About 20 minutes ago: PROBLEM WILL BE FIXED WITH NEW DATABASE UPDATE SOON, PLEASE BE PATIENT. THANK YOU.
Oh BTW: If you use the FREE version of avast, then you will have a low priority and receive 403-errors while updating for some while:
Last encountered error: Other HTTP error (403)
–jeroen
via: avast! antivirus 5 Facebook page.
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thomas said
what can one do to update his free Avast antivirus if error occurs all the time updating engine definition is attempted with fast internet? your feed back if vital stack as my computer is at verge of virus infections
jpluimers said
When updating Avast! free antivirus or the signatures for it, it might take a while or a lot of retries as you are limited by the speed of the Avast! upload servers, and they seem to give higher priority to paying customers.
Peter said
Nice
I just deleted 1106 Files on my Computer
What i have problems later ?
Avast helps me then ????
This is too much !
Do not not test their new releases first ???
Where are the comments of Avast itself now ??
jpluimers said
Many AV vendors have had problems in the past.
Remember the debacle with another big AV vendor about a year ago?
Some important AV rules:
– never blindly delete files your AV suggests, as there is always a chance of a false positive.
– never trust one AV vendor; the rate that malware, viruses, trojans, etc appear, no AV vendor can cover 100%
– when in doubt, check with another AV tool as well (for instance on-line with http://virusscan.jotti.org/en – it uses multiple AV engines for checking)
–jeroen