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| Thread ID: 94802 | 2008-11-12 19:06:00 | AVG Free V8 not updating automatically | prefect (6291) | Press F1 |
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| 719831 | 2008-11-13 03:07:00 | I have the same problem on 2 PC's. The reason is explained on their forum. They say try again at another time. Hundreds of people are having this problem. They say they are updating (adding more) servers this week to fix it ! Thanks Squire |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 719832 | 2008-11-13 06:41:00 | prefect, 8.00am NZ time is middle of the day all across the USA, so try changing the update time to 8.00pm NZ time which would be middle of the night and the servers would be less busy, I update at around midday NZ time and have had no problems. HTH |
jinja_thom (4306) | ||
| 719833 | 2008-12-05 01:49:00 | Ok guys...before you all go running off switching to Avast, deleting stuff out of your registry and the famed "Uninstall & Re-install," you probable noticed that when you go to AVG.com and try to download the updates manually, they don't work. If this is the case and you also might have noticed that when you typed in some web pages, you might get sent somewhere else, then you have a network re-routing malware. Yeah, happened to me too. I messed up my registry, uninstalled and reinstalled AVG only to find out that it wasn't that AVG's routers were overly filled as everyone else claims, it was simply a malware that was causing the program not to update. What to do...simple, download and install the latest version of Ad-Aware. Don't worry about getting the paid version, the freeware version will do exactly what you want it to do and no, trying to update Ad-Aware once you install it won't work because of the malware that's on your computer. After installing the program and closing it out, right click on your My Computer shortcut and click Properties. In the Properties box, un-select the System Restore option to turn off System Restore on your C: Drive. Then restart your computer in safe mode. While in safe mode, run Ad-Aware to find and remove any and all malwares/trojans from your computer. After the program is done removing everything, restart your computer and then right click on the AVG icon running in the System Tray. Click the Update option and wallah, you're good to go. So thank you Avast lovers and others that like to suggest the almighty uninstall and re-install, but no thank you. P.S. Spread the word please to all the AVG lovers out there that the program still rocks and no nothing is wrong with their servers. :thumbs: |
neobraveheart (14312) | ||
| 719834 | 2008-12-05 01:53:00 | There maybe nothing wrong with the servers, but I cant say the same for AVG itself Malwarebytes would probably be better than Adaware now too |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 719835 | 2008-12-05 02:07:00 | Will, I spent 4 hour the other night battling viruses and malware.....I was a great fan of AVG 7.5, and expected the same with AVG8.0. However it was only after uninstalling and installing Avast, that I got a clean system. Apart from AVG now being abit of a system hog, its a great free a/v package, BUT, it is not as good as Avast. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 719836 | 2008-12-05 02:12:00 | There maybe nothing wrong with the servers, but I cant say the same for AVG itself Malwarebytes would probably be better than Adaware now too Malwarebytes opens a king sized can of whoopass on AdAware. Adaware is hopeless now. Spybot S&D is still reasonable though, but the new "Spybot and Adaware" are Malwarebytes and Spyware Terminator. :thumbs: |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 719837 | 2008-12-05 18:59:00 | AVG 8 Free has a major bug. If you set it to do automatic updates and the update fails (which they often do, as they obviously only have one 386 as their server) then the front page Statistics area reports the last update as being the one that just failed ! Ie is it records the date and time of the last update tried, not installed. So you could go for months looking at your machine AVG screen thinking you had the latest updates. I have told them this on their forum, and their moderators say I am being picky and that it is not really a bug, but a design feature. So I lost all confidence in them, especially as if you start a thread or join another thread and say something constructively critical of AVG free, they close the thread ! OK that may not strictly be a bug, but to me as a computer user of 30 years it is certainly a design fault ! |
Digby (677) | ||
| 719838 | 2008-12-06 02:01:00 | I can't help feeling we should all use Avast,it is so much better than AVG,or at least that is what the Avast writers are saying,plus one or two others.:xmouth: | Cicero (40) | ||
| 719839 | 2008-12-06 18:25:00 | I am sick of AVG 8.00 so I am going to try Avast, but I need to find out a bit more about it. Just following their writers and one or two others is not a huge rep. But I have seen several polls where Avast and NOd32 score very highly. When discussing av programs people seem to forget that there are 2 major considerations. 1. Is it reliable, getting updates, does it clash with say ZoneAlarm, how good is its user interface. How much system resources does it consume. How customisable is it - can you set it to not scan certain folders ? etc Do the developers fix bugs quickly. 2. Does it pick up many viruses ? |
Digby (677) | ||
| 719840 | 2008-12-06 18:33:00 | Avast would probably pick up more than AVG Avast is auto updating, (well the defs are, you may have to select the option, to select auto updates for the program) It was updated like 2-3 times last month ! Have no idea if it clashes with ZA, I dont use ZA. There are better FW's around Depending on which version of Avast you get, (Home has 6 engines I think, Pro has 8). You can disable whatever engine you like. Dont disable the wrong one tho, it'll disable Avast I've disabled P2P, Outlook, Webshield (this can slow a browser down sometimes), and script blocking. Since I dont use P2P programs. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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