Avast critical update email notice

[franktee]

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.

 

[Alias]

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

 

[DL]

Why not visit Avast site and check?

 

[Bill Sharpe]

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

 

[Bob]

Ask Avast?

 

[PaulMaudib]

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

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

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

 

[Alias]

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

 

[Peter in New Zealand]

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.

 

[HeyBub]

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.

 

[Alias]

<Giggle>

This admonition from someone who almost always posts about Linux.

I post from Linux but I use XP everyday.

Alias

 

[Bill Sharpe]

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

Your post is rather pathetic and almost comical coming ten hours after
the original post and after four people responded to the OP.

However, it seems to be all that you do...

Bill