Avast thinks my program is a virus

January 20, 2011, 9:55am 1 Hi all,today my avast tell me that a new program version was available, but instead of updating program I did an update of engine and virus definition. Then I make also program update.My question is: avast did not make engine and virus def update automatically, because it expected a program update. Changing order of this update, did I make an error? Have I to do anything?Thanks for answering,Teox Asyn January 20, 2011, 10:05am 2 Latest version is 5.1.889.Latest VPS (at time of posting) is 110120-0.If you see these versions in the avast GUI, everything should be OK… asyn DavidR January 20, 2011, 1:03pm 3 The two are completely separate, Program updates are set to Ask and you get a notification when one is available.The virus definition & engine updates are automatic and installed when one is ready when your system checks for updates.The Program update is much bigger and is on a 7 day cycle to spread the load on the servers, with 140 million plus users you can’t update everyone at the same time. So the program update notification comes when it is your turn in the 7 day cycle.The virus definition & engine updates are checked for when you first connect to the internet and every 4 hours (by default) after that.So as you can see they are independent of each other, so it is possible to get/do one without the other. Had you elected to do the Program update when notified, that

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