This is of course good to know.

I wonder if users are going to abandon Avast in panic now because of a corrupt/deficient update? They did before when AVG had an update concern. It was as if the sky was falling.

DA

Not me, even though it had me going in circles last night.

Raven thanks for the info.

I am sticking with Avast, it's simple to use and at this point that is what I need. Now if I could just find my Cd to re install my game. LOL

Thanks for the information! I'm happy with Avast too.

I too like everything about Avast!

The number I have reads 091205-0

Just a thought, I wonder what responsibility Avast now has that some people may have deleted some important files and were not aware that this was an error on Avast part. Maybe even had their machines looked at by an outside concern and that cause them to spend money to repair. Does Avast just say OOPS! seems to me that they should be held for some action ... just my two cents on all this, I rum MS Essentials and it's been working for me.

I got a new update/version last night and it also is 091205-0.

urlee & marciasc...I have 091205-0 too! No problems for me so far.

as someone on another forum said I would guess they owe about what we pay them for the use of their Free program.
Same exact thing happened before with McAfee and Norton both pay programs and neither paid anything, McAfee caused some major damage when they did it.
It happens, they may lose some customers, but you know they are darn sure going to be real careful about what they put out in the future once they have had a big oopps like this.

The fault in some situations lies partly in the person that was having it delete the files that is something that should never be done it should always be put in the chest so that it can be retrieved should it be a false positive, those that were having every file deleted are definitely going to be hurting. I had it flag one file, I knew immediately that file was not infected since it had scanned that file upon download and various times prior but to be safe I put it in the chest, the second one it flagged I knew it was a bad update and stopped AVAST. I leave my Avast set to have me manually make the decision on each flagged item, this is why. If it were set up to continue the scan and auto delete or auto quarantine then you end up with the chest full or everything deleted.

urlee & marciasc...I have 091205-0 too! No problems for me so far.

I now have 091206-0 That changes every day I think.

I went ahead and paid for Avast and how can I find out what version? I did what you suggested, but where is the tree you talked about.?
Thanks

right click on the AVAST ball in the taskbar, select about Avast in that box click the plus sign in front of VPS file that will give you the number of the latest downloaded definitions file version, for the version of which AVAST program you have it will be at the top of that same box.

tree= a list with + signs which will expand it when clicked on, branching it out.

Found it, I show version 091203-1 as of Dec 9 --wonder if it is a updated version due to the fact I am paying for it for one year

I meant 091209-0 instead

that is exactly the same one I have today, it will change daily.