Avast critical update email notice

[Guest 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.

[Guest Alias]

Re: Avast critical update email notice

 

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

[Guest DL]

Re: Avast critical update email notice

 

Why not visit Avast site and check?

 

"franktee" <franktee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:ED0C6558-4815-4B5C-AD9F-34670911AA06@microsoft.com...

> 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.

>

>

[Guest Bill Sharpe]

Re: Avast critical update email notice

 

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

[Guest Bob]

Re: Avast critical update email notice

 

Ask Avast?

 

"franktee" <franktee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:ED0C6558-4815-4B5C-AD9F-34670911AA06@microsoft.com...

> 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.

>

>

[Guest PaulMaudib]

Re: Avast critical update email notice

 

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 06:26:00 -0800, franktee

<franktee@discussions.microsoft.com> 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

[Guest Colin Barnhorst]

Re: Avast critical update email notice

 

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

 

"PaulMaudib" <none@none.net> wrote in message

news:er41t39a1bf73v2s9sjdfm9k1rngr6667b@4ax.com...

> On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 06:26:00 -0800, franktee

> <franktee@discussions.microsoft.com> 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

>

[Guest Alias]

Re: Avast critical update email notice

 

PaulMaudib wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 06:26:00 -0800, franktee

> <franktee@discussions.microsoft.com> 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

[Guest Peter in New Zealand]

Re: Avast critical update email notice

 

Alias wrote:

> PaulMaudib wrote:

>> On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 06:26:00 -0800, franktee

>> <franktee@discussions.microsoft.com> 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.

[Guest HeyBub]

Re: Avast critical update email notice

 

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.

[Guest Alias]

Re: Avast critical update email notice

 

HeyBub wrote:

> 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.

>

>

 

I post from Linux but I use XP everyday.

 

Alias

[Guest Bill Sharpe]

Re: Avast critical update email notice

 

PaulMaudib wrote:

> 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