Hi all
I presently have Avast Av free home edition and have received an Email
purportedly from Avast notifying me that I need a critical update which I
deleted immediately.
Would anyone know if this is ligit. or a possible ploy.
Thanks for any helpful reply.

franktee wrote:
> Hi all
> I presently have Avast Av free home edition and have received an Email
> purportedly from Avast notifying me that I need a critical update which I
> deleted immediately.
> Would anyone know if this is ligit. or a possible ploy.
> Thanks for any helpful reply.
>
>

It's a ploy. Deleting the email was you practicing sensible computing.
If you want to know if there are updates to Avast!, right click the icon
in the sys tray and choose Updating/Program Update and it will check for
a new version and for new definitions.

Alias

Why not visit Avast site and check?

"franktee" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:ED0C6558-4815-4B5C-AD9F-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi all
> I presently have Avast Av free home edition and have received an Email
> purportedly from Avast notifying me that I need a critical update which I
> deleted immediately.
> Would anyone know if this is ligit. or a possible ploy.
> Thanks for any helpful reply.
>
>

franktee wrote:
> Hi all
> I presently have Avast Av free home edition and have received an Email
> purportedly from Avast notifying me that I need a critical update which I
> deleted immediately.
> Would anyone know if this is ligit. or a possible ploy.
> Thanks for any helpful reply.
>
>
Good choice!
I've been using Avast for a couple of years and have never gotten an
update notice by email from them.

Bill

Ask Avast?

"franktee" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:ED0C6558-4815-4B5C-AD9F-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi all
> I presently have Avast Av free home edition and have received an Email
> purportedly from Avast notifying me that I need a critical update which I
> deleted immediately.
> Would anyone know if this is ligit. or a possible ploy.
> Thanks for any helpful reply.
>
>

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 06:26:00 -0800, franktee
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Hi all
>I presently have Avast Av free home edition and have received an Email
>purportedly from Avast notifying me that I need a critical update which I
>deleted immediately.
>Would anyone know if this is ligit. or a possible ploy.
>Thanks for any helpful reply.
>
Why ask HERE? This group deals with XP and you are asking about some
third party program. Try going to their website or group and ask
there.

IOW,

Ask elsewhere

Because he's using XP? He has to start somewhere.

"PaulMaudib" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 06:26:00 -0800, franktee
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>Hi all
>>I presently have Avast Av free home edition and have received an Email
>>purportedly from Avast notifying me that I need a critical update which I
>>deleted immediately.
>>Would anyone know if this is ligit. or a possible ploy.
>>Thanks for any helpful reply.
>>
> Why ask HERE? This group deals with XP and you are asking about some
> third party program. Try going to their website or group and ask
> there.
>
> IOW,
>
> Ask elsewhere
>

PaulMaudib wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 06:26:00 -0800, franktee
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>> I presently have Avast Av free home edition and have received an Email
>> purportedly from Avast notifying me that I need a critical update which I
>> deleted immediately.
>> Would anyone know if this is ligit. or a possible ploy.
>> Thanks for any helpful reply.
>>
> Why ask HERE? This group deals with XP and you are asking about some
> third party program. Try going to their website or group and ask
> there.
>
> IOW,
>
> Ask elsewhere
>

Either that or ignore net nannies like this anal creep and post wherever
you want. As you may have noticed, and the anal nanny didn't, a lot of
people use Avast here and the sign on the door isn't xp.only but xp.general.

Alias

Alias wrote:
> PaulMaudib wrote:
>> On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 06:26:00 -0800, franktee
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all
>>> I presently have Avast Av free home edition and have received an
>>> Email purportedly from Avast notifying me that I need a critical
>>> update which I deleted immediately.
>>> Would anyone know if this is ligit. or a possible ploy.
>>> Thanks for any helpful reply.
>>>
>> Why ask HERE? This group deals with XP and you are asking about some
>> third party program. Try going to their website or group and ask
>> there.
>>
>> IOW,
>>
>> Ask elsewhere
>>
>
> Either that or ignore net nannies like this anal creep and post wherever
> you want. As you may have noticed, and the anal nanny didn't, a lot of
> people use Avast here and the sign on the door isn't xp.only but
> xp.general.
>
> Alias

Hi there to the OP. Good question. In reply I have used Avast for about
three years now with complete satisfaction and absolutely no problems.
My grandson now choruses with it "Virus database has been updated". He's
even got the accent down which isn't bad for a Kiwi kid. Anyway, I use
it with XP, and this is a valid question for which the simple answer is
- don't ever respond to an email like that. You used wisdom in deleting
it. Avast can be left to cheerfully update itself without trouble. Hope
this is helpful.

--
Peter in New Zealand. (Email address is fake)
Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and
compulsive computer fiddler.

Alias wrote:

>>
>
> Either that or ignore net nannies like this anal creep and post
> wherever you want. As you may have noticed, and the anal nanny
> didn't, a lot of people use Avast here and the sign on the door isn't
> xp.only but xp.general.
> Alias

<Giggle>

This admonition from someone who almost always posts about Linux.