Yes, Avast will do the updates automatically for you. Poke through the options - there's settings for how you are notified when an update has occured. Tony Mayer >Hi everyone. Season's greetings and happy holidays! I made the plunge and >uninstalled my expired norton antivirus and installed AVAST. Sleeker look >and less bloated on system resources. I just want to make sure I >understand this right. Does Avast have either an auto or manual antivirus >update feature like nortons "live update". I'm running Windows ME on one >and Windows XP with SP2 on my other networked computer. Thanks. >Regards....Steve. Curious about the people moderating your messages? Visit our staff web site: http://freepctech.com/staff.shtml