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[tdawnaz]

says "update failed...error during network communication"

forum there says to go to update management and delete temp update files...which sometimes works...or restarting my compute will sometimes let me update...but not anymore

anyone else having this problem??

anyone have a solution

[zalternate]

Manually click the update button.  And then it should update. If it doesn't, a teeny tiny file may be corrupted.

Or you might need to reinstall it(uninstall old version first).  To be really simple if something has become corrupted. I know with Symantec(Norton) many years ago, you had to regedit to 'fix' a small line to restore the updater to working again.
Or the other one is the update server is being a pain and causing the error, due to heavy load. Which should clear in a couple of days.


And.  Helps to make sure that no bugs are preventing your updater from working.
MalwareBytes. Anti-Malware
http://www.download....cdlPid=10896905
download and update and scan.  

And Windows Firewall is only 'one way' protection(incoming).

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 9.0
http://free.avg.com/...us-free-edition

Heres the link to the AVG uninstall tool, IF needed. Meaning if you uninstall and the new version still gets the error.
http://www.avg.com/u.../download-tools

[mudmanc4]

Seen it myself,  I don't play with crap I know nothing about, so i just un installed it, and re installed it.

[tdawnaz]

well i may have goofed it up...i just installed the 9.0 free...i didn't uninstall anything first...what will happen now??... i also updated my ff...so i guess time will tell...if i get the update when it automatically updates...guess we'll see

[zalternate]

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well i may have goofed it up...i just installed the 9.0 free...i didn't uninstall anything first...what will happen now??... i also updated my ff...so i guess time will tell...if i get the update when it automatically updates...guess we'll see

It is designed to overwrite the older version. Some products give the choice of doing a clean 'install' or 'upgrade/repair' and usually, it will correct errors that have happened to the older version.

And hopefully you said NO to some crapfest of toolbars and such. They cause their own problems, when they try to integrate into browsers and such.

[tdawnaz]

yeh...i always pick and chose what i want...

[mudmanc4]

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yeh...i always pick and chose what i want...

Me too, except she says no half the time 

[tdawnaz]

oh my...there's another one...need me to make a phone call for ya??

[AlucardHS]

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i may have goofed it up

P.E.B.K.A.C. ???

Have you tried Avira ? Give that a go and see how you like it. Have no problems since i switch form AVG to Avira.

[tdawnaz]

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P.E.B.K.A.C. ???

whatever...that was constructive help...thx

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Have you tried Avira ? Give that a go and see how you like it. Have no problems since i switch form AVG to Avira.

i do however appreciate the actual constructive help ...we'll see what it does tonite...

[Sequoia]

I still using the latest 8.5 version of AVG.No problem updating it.

[tommie gorman]

I do that too, use it till I have a problem then update.   But also everytime I had problems with AVG an update fixed it.

[tdawnaz]

yep 2 days now and it's working fine...but then the other worked great for a long time then suddenly couldn't update the database...

i like this upgrade...9.0...lots of new features that weren't in the free version before

[tdawnaz]

question...what's happens if ya delete all those tracking cookies...says it might break user agreements or used to say that...i haven't tried it yet with this version...they are all warnings

[Conuck]

Can't help ya. I haven't used AVG for almost 2 years now. 

[zalternate]

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question...what's happens if ya delete all those tracking cookies...says it might break user agreements or used to say that...i haven't tried it yet with this version...they are all warnings

I kill all my cookies when I close the browser. And my history, etc.

Some Cookies are only good for serving you the newest ad's that you have not seen yet, as you travel from site to site.
I also don't allow third party cookies.  
And any time I have used Internet Exploder, I end up with a bunch of crap cookies.

And one or two cookies are for keeping you logged into the forums here or there or anywhere.

[tommie gorman]

I love the chocolate chip variety. 

[mudmanc4]

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I kill all my cookies when I close the browser. And my history, etc.

Some Cookies are only good for serving you the newest ad's that you have not seen yet, as you travel from site to site.
I also don't allow third party cookies.  
And any time I have used Internet Exploder, I end up with a bunch of crap cookies.

And one or two cookies are for keeping you logged into the forums here or there or anywhere.

Thats the way right there.  what I do is basically the same thing, I clear them out of the index.dat along with all that other  "stuff " that MS stores in there for there use at any time, as they feel like they need to see what , where, and when as far as frequency and duration , last page viewed, habits of porn to report to the places that target you with even more cookies to get into your system, so they can market you with devices such as google .

[tdawnaz]

whatever was wrong with it before...it's great now...updates every night well checks for updates