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AOL killed kaspersky AVS updates?


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Just checking if anyone else has noticed or effected by this.

I'm still using kaspersky based aol anti-virus shield it had been working and updating fine since they change to mcafee though my signatures i've noticed are set at 8/31/2007 and when i try running update it goes "update is not required"

Is this all normal behavior ? or has aol officially slashed kaspersky based updates and i need to move to something else cause damned if i'm touching mcafee again :|

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Just checking if anyone else has noticed or effected by this.

I'm still using kaspersky based aol anti-virus shield it had been working and updating fine since they change to mcafee though my signatures i've noticed are set at 8/31/2007 and when i try running update it goes "update is not required"

Is this all normal behavior ? or has aol officially slashed kaspersky based updates and i need to move to something else cause damned if i'm touching mcafee again :|

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AOL no longer has contract with Kaspersky so all updates to the AOL-based Kaspersky will no longer be available. If you want AOL free antivirus software. you will need to get their McAfee one - which sucks from what I have been reading on the reviews.

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hm that sucks was a great free Av while it lasted ohwell i'll have to change to something else

there's not other free kaspersky based AV's that i don't know about is there ?

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I haven't used AOL's AVS, but did you try manually updating it? I've used another kaspersky based scanners and manually updating the defs work.

http://support.kaspersky.com/kis7/update?qid=208279442

Just add

127.0.0.1 download.newaol.com to your host files, guys...

It will download updates then.

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Just add the entry:

Code:

127.0.0.1 download.newaol.com

to your c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file, and then AOL will use kaspersky servers for updates.. ....

Thanks Saikou.. I'll give that a shot...

UPDATE: WORKED LIKE A CHARM!!!

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