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Internet Update The Wrong Way III
This time: Sophos Anti-Virus. On internet update, this program downloads updated application files for all possible languages (and it speaks an awfull lot of languages). And no option to turn it off. So I happily downloaded the updates for swedish, italian, spanish, danish, french and some others, which any of them I haven't installed. It took 15 minutes on my parents ISDN connection - and they pay for every kilobyte. If Sophos is an average virus scanner (I don't know), I suppose this updates to happen every week or so: Horror!
At least, however, unlike many other anti virus applications, Sophos doesn't require a restart on update. Forcing a restart, I think, is the best way to keep people from updating. If they start their computer, they usually want to do something: work, play, watch a video. They surely do not want to be interrupted once or twice a week, because the virus scanner is unable to update it's virus definitions on the fly.
I was annoyed by the same things with Sophos. The extra language updates should have a feature for toggling on/off, wouldn't you think? Avast doesn't require a re-start on update either.
Anthony
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