AVG going nuts....

When I read this I just realized that a little bit ago when I got a balloon from the tray saying the update hadn't worked and now I realize it was AVG. I was in the middle of something at the time, and I guess I'm not used to the 8 format yet. Figured I'd worry about it later. I realized in reading the thread that the AVG icon in the tray had a warning on it. I had to prompt it a couple of times, but it did update, although then it gave me a message that an update, evidently the one I just did, was available. It is finally telling me its all up to date.

What sound more like you are experiencing happened on my laptop last week. I had been on vacation, for about 10 days, with sporadic connections to the internet, sometimes when I meant to, and other times the thing just decided to get connected on its own, until I finally turned of the wireless card. So I had missed a lot of updates, and suspect a few updates began, and then never finished because of poor connections. Because of wind shears we got stranded in the Denver airport last week Wednesday night, and having nothing else to do, I tried to get AVG updated using the free wireless connection. It would not update. I went to the Grisoft site and attempted to download and install the updates manually. A couple of the smaller updates appeared to install this way, but the larger, all inclusive updates did not work. They would download extremely slowly, and the download would eventually stall. I finally gave up and figured when I got home with a good connection I would complete the download. When I got home I tried again, with results that weren't that different. I finally downloaded the program and ran the repair option. This took care of my problem, didn't even need to completely delete and reinstall. After this it updated as normal. I like to change from the default time for updates, since I figure lots of people will just accept the default time and the servers will get hit with huge numbers of requests all at the same time.

Richard,

I used AVG for MANY years. Last November I ran into the exact same problem you are describing. NOTHING I tried would get it to update so I downloaded AVAST! from download.com (DID NOT INSTALL IT), uninstalled AVG, restarted my computer (XP), installed AVAST!, undated it via the program update, restarted my computer in SAFE MODE with admin privileges, and ran full scan with AVAST! overnight.

Funny thing... it found malware on my computer! I have an 1TB NAS and an 500GB external drive attached and AVAST! scanned both of them, found the virus (don't remember which one) on the external drive. I then reinstalled AVG and it installed and did all it's magic like it's supposed to. By then I thought about AVAST! and uninstalled AVG and have been an AVAST! fan ever since!

My home network has 3 laptops, one desktop, 2 HR20s, 1 HR21, the NAS, and a couple of USB external hard drives. AVAST! is weird. I have it on all of the computers and without network support it allows me to run it from any computer to any of the attached drives and the NAS but NOT the C: drive of any computer but the one I'm running it on. So what I say! I've been malware free and loving it!


NorfolkBruh

PS: BTW I HATE the AVAST! gui but dang blast it... it may not be purty but it sure does work good!