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12/03/2010 02:56:55 PM · #1 |
If you have Windows 7 or Vista and are using AVG, BEWARE! It hosed my machine up.
AVG Update Problem |
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12/03/2010 03:02:19 PM · #2 |
Ouch!
My condolences. I always thought AVG was excellent, but I guess they're just "AVG" ;-)
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12/03/2010 03:04:07 PM · #3 |
Well, apparently there was a benefit to my procrastinating on installing the new version.
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12/03/2010 03:05:24 PM · #4 |
| On a serious note, I will give one big vote of confidence to Microsoft Security Essentials. Seems to really do the job, and do it with low overhead. |
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12/03/2010 03:32:58 PM · #5 |
| Ouch. I'm running Windows 7 and use AVG - the paid version. Does this only apply to the free version or do I have cause to panic? |
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12/03/2010 03:35:22 PM · #6 |
This update got me too. Luckily I just went back to a previous restore point and all is well. I will be switching protection though.
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12/03/2010 03:38:22 PM · #7 |
| Got me as well, removed AVG and reloaded AVG 9 version, no problems since, although I keep getting a message on booting to upgrade to 2011 version. |
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12/03/2010 05:37:21 PM · #8 |
| Okay, I havent updated AVG in a bit, might be time to turn it off. Thanks for the heads up. |
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12/03/2010 09:59:54 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
On a serious note, I will give one big vote of confidence to Microsoft Security Essentials. Seems to really do the job, and do it with low overhead. |
I think that's what I'm switching to after I install windows 7. |
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12/03/2010 10:29:08 PM · #10 |
| Interesting.... I upgraded my Vista-64Bit a few days back and has not been an issue... I un-installed when I saw this news just in case :-) |
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12/04/2010 09:59:45 AM · #11 |
| If you have a legal copy of any Windows OS I don't see why you wouldn't get MSE as your anti-virus application. AVG misses stuff. I've tested them both and MSE wins in a big way. Never thought I would tout MS software but here I am doing it. :) |
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12/04/2010 11:27:06 AM · #12 |
Hmmm, I run AVG on five machines and none had a problem. Maybe they were all turned off throughout the bad update. Stroke of luck.
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12/04/2010 11:46:43 AM · #13 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Hmmm, I run AVG on five machines and none had a problem. Maybe they were all turned off throughout the bad update. Stroke of luck. |
It does sound like they pulled the update back pretty fast, so it's possible that either your machines were off or for some reason the update did not propagate to them... connectivity lost or user not logged in or ??
Definitely a stroke of luck. |
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12/04/2010 03:58:26 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Hmmm, I run AVG on five machines and none had a problem. Maybe they were all turned off throughout the bad update. Stroke of luck. |
It does sound like they pulled the update back pretty fast, so it's possible that either your machines were off or for some reason the update did not propagate to them... connectivity lost or user not logged in or ??
Definitely a stroke of luck. |
I have no idea if this has a bearing on anything, but I have AVG 2011 on 4 machines here and NOT ONE has experienced any problems so far.... and I know for a fact that one of these machines (my daughter's) never gets turned off.
Ray |
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12/04/2010 04:10:16 PM · #15 |
If I read it right (and I read it quickly because I stopped using AVG three years ago), the problem was evidenced when you rebooted. Then you were hosed. So maybe not rebooting before they replaced the bad update was the key.
Personally, I use NAV on my main machines and Avast on older machines that are for testing only. AVG just took forever to scan my machine every night since I have so many disks and so many files!
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12/04/2010 04:45:19 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by nshapiro:
AVG just took forever to scan my machine every night since I have so many disks and so many files! |
That was my experience with it as well... also, I was running on my wife's (vista desktop)machine and it would occasionally just stop updating itself, never giving notification that its definitions were out of date. Attempting to update it would fail. We migrated her to a laptop, and that now runs Win7 and we are using MSE without a hitch. |
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12/04/2010 05:01:01 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by nshapiro:
If I read it right (and I read it quickly because I stopped using AVG three years ago), the problem was evidenced when you rebooted. Then you were hosed. So maybe not rebooting before they replaced the bad update was the key.
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That's when it got me, when I rebooted. I am installing windows 7 as we speak. |
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