How often does your virus program update?

Normally either anti virus program you have will update in the background not disturbing what you are doing. However, this depends on what internet connection and speed you have. If you have a really slow connection, of course the update will take most of that which will mean it will interfere with the work you are doing, eg. opening sites or emails. With most programs you can set how often you want it to update, whether to check as soon as an internet connection is detected, once a day or once a week, or maybe every time the computer turns on. I would recommend you to have the settings as you do, updating every day. There are plenty of new virus and trojans coming out every day, so it is really important to have a "live" program. Often there are also special "security threats" that your computer will be protected against through updates. These are quick updates that the company brings out as an answer to specific crucial threats at the time. If you so much as wait one day to download this, it can harm your computer. I would suggest you turn the computer on and let the program update before you start using the connection to the internet, but I can see how that is frustrating for you. I guess you have to assess the risks as oppose to your gains of using the computer straight away on higher speed!

right now i am working on ubuntu and i have installed no anti virus for that. but earlier when i use windows then i have also faced this problem. i have find a solution for that instead of updating antivirus every time you update it once in a weak. and antivirus companies can not make this stuff user friendly as you know in every sec there a lot of viruses a updated.

I have AVG Free Edition 8.0 and yes it updates alot but it does it in the backgroud as to not disrput anything you are doing. What program are you using now?

My Anti-Virus update once a week, but now already expired. Will download AVG later, which usually update once a week.