We’ve recently covered release of Beta Program update of Upcoming Avast 7 Antivirus, we noted in that article Avast offers SiteCorrect feature which prevents user from visiting misspelled sites (typo squatting sites), and there are some changes in AutoSandbox module (we yet don’t’ know what they are) and Opera Brower support in WebRep, today Avast has released RC1 with the addition of emergency Updater feature, this feature suppose to include in all three editions of Avast:Free, Pro and Internet Security.
What is Emergency Update feature in avast? what does it do?
We’ve covered a troubleshooting post on Avast in the past which requires users to reinstall Avast in certain circumstances where Avast service fails to start, at that situation user had no other choice than of reinstalling Avast, from the upcoming official release onwards if all users affected with this sort of issue then Avast using emergency update mechanism can push updates to fix those issues like Mozilla and Google push some small updates for Firefox and Chrome.
“A new feature — allows us to push out critical product updates in case of some big issues where the main avast service is not able to start / crashing.
Such situations, till this new version, meant the user had to reinstall avast as there was no way for us to fix such problems from remote.
With this new mechanism, we can push out fixes even to such issues”.
"C:\Program Files\AVAST Software\Avast\AvastEmUpdate.exe" is the path of the Avast Emergency Update process. There are less chances of this process appearing in Task Manager, we don’t know whether it is by default scheduled to run daily on startup or not. We’ll let you know more details about this feature once final release comes out.
I had to disable the emergency update feature of Avast in xp’s task scheduler because it was causing a default beep during system boot (opening windows). It was because it was trying to load during user logon and yet does not appear to be intended for that in it’s task scheduler, schedule command string. A simple disable cured it, but I was stymied for awhile.
I’ve removed the Emergency update .exe file from Program/Avast… and have no problems since.
I did try to stop it from running, by stopping Avast self defense module from running, using Crap cleaner to delete the entry… guess what it ran at boot up!!!! I thought what the heck so I deleted the .exe file altogether no more hassel.
Avast is very buggy depending which way the wind is blowing, funny no one mentioned what looks like a VPN advert appears after boot up – it’s not an advert its a bug.
Since noticed how the GUI contact Google every time you open it…. yeah I got sick of that too, I submitted a ticket and waiting to see what they have to say failing that it’s goodbye Avast and I’ve six months to go on my subscription.
It’s my computer and I wanna use it, not Google, not Avast, I can not be trusting them any longer.
Who knows what can get through that emergency update, I’m pretty sure if Avast can do it so can other people…. and I don’t want Google spying either, nor Google Chrome installing behind my back, another thing that Avast lets through.
What the hell are their beta testers doing, why all the bugs, isn’t that what the emergency update can get up to – who knows what they are ‘updating’, they certainly won’t tell you, you ask?