WinXP Shutdown installs update??

[Felecha]

I have AVG Free 8.5 for my antivirus, happy with it for years. I have it set to scan at 1am. This morning something was cranking away at 6am, making everything else unbearably slow. Task Manager showed avgcsrvx.exe eating up 4,8,15% of CPU. I tried killing the process, it popped back, sometimes several of them. Tried killing the AVG services in Services, the watchdog has no Stop command. Curious. Anyway, I just went to Shut Down. Not Restart, a full Shutdown of Windows.

So the normal logoff/shutdown screen comes along, and after saving my personal settings and all that, a message says "Installing update 1 of 1 ..." and every few seconds it changed to "Do not shut down or unplug your computer. Windows will do that automatically."

That went on several minutes and I got concerned. I have never seen Windows installing an update at shutdown. I sometimes come to the computer in the morning and see that an update was done and I got restarted. But never seen it at my own shutdown

Is it normal to see an update at shutdown? Because of the screwy AVG behavior, I wondered if some kind of security problem was at work. It would have to be a pretty good one, to mimic AVG and Windows, I know

thanks

 

[CalvinHobbes]

Windows will do this quite often if it has downloaded the update already. At shutdown it will install the updates.

 

[Nothinman]

Once AU has an update downloaded it's always been an option to Install Updates and Shutdown or just Shutdown.

 

[Felecha]

ok, thanks. I just never saw it before, and there was no option to "Install Updates and Shutdown". I just went to the Start button, Turn Off Computer, and Turn Off from the popup window.

All set