Wednesday, January 2, 2008

AVG Free Update Unsuccessful

Recently AVG Free started returning a message "Update Unsuccessful" when Update Manager was run. This meant that the anti-virus defs were not being updated.

The solution to this problem is to -
1. Launch AVG Control Center
2. Go to View in Menu bar
3. Click "Extended Mode"
4. In Extended Mode window scroll down to "Update Manager"
5. Right Click. Go to Settings
6. Click Advanced tab
7. Press "Delete Update Temporary Files" button

I was then able to Update successfully.
This solution was posted by someone on Yahoo answers. May not work in every case.

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