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The following is from an ongoing similar discussion on the WinDrivers Forum and is culled from a couple of posts.

Hope it helps!

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Navigate to your AVG install directory and rename your existing url.ini file to url.iniold.

Copy the following and paste into notepad and save it as url.ini. Put this new file into your AVG install directory. You'll now have 3 options to select from with www.grisoft.com being the default.

[sERVER_NAME]

1=free.grisoft.cz

2=ftp.grisoft.com

3=www.grisoft.com

[sERVER_URL]

1=http://free.grisoft.cz/softw/60/fe

2=ftp.grisoft.com/pub/softw/60/fe/

3=http://www.grisoft.com/softw/60/fe/

Actual URL=3

Well the above .ini update worked like a damn for me for a couple of weeks and then the AVG stopped being able to connect and hadn't updated since March 26th - in either auto or manual mode, or using any of the three download sites.

Now - since the three download sites now within the AVG product seem to down, I went to the manual updates download page

http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_updt6.php?lng=fe

and found that clicking on the appropriate hyperlink garnered no response either. I tried a 'Save Target as...' as well and nothing - but I noted the download site was back to the free.grisoft.cz which in one of the addresses not responding in AVG.

Hmmm.

As an experiment, I went directly to Grisoft's true Home site and worked my way to that site's AVG update page.

http://www.grisoft.cz/cz/cz_updt6.php

And while my Czech is nothing to write home about - okay, non-existent - it appeared that the appropriate update was of the same name, size and date as its English site counterpoint, so I took a chance and tried a download.

It started immmediately and I installed it into Grisoft | AVG | Updates with no problem at all. Starting AVG it recognised it (in English) and updated itself.

So it seems, for whatever reason, the servers (or links) handling the 'English' downloads are buggered while - for the moment at least - the Czech site still works.

Noting the struggles above even with the modified .ini additional addresses and discovering the Grisoft direct download page (english) was directing downloads to the same location, I then wondered what the address to the successful (czech) download was.

Turns out it yet another address to those we already know. Realizing that, I structured the info to follow the original fix and have added it to my .ini file so that it now looks like this -

[sERVER_NAME]

1=free.grisoft.cz

2=ftp.grisoft.com

3=www.grisoft.com

4=download.grisoft.cz

[sERVER_URL]

1=http://free.grisoft.cz/softw/60/fe

2=ftp.grisoft.com/pub/softw/60/fe/

3=http://www.grisoft.com/softw/60/fe/

4=http://download.grisoft.cz/softw/60/fe/

Actual URL=3

Rebooting, this gives me 4 addresses now in the drop down list in AVG. It still defaults to the www.grisoft.com, but that can be changed. I tried an update via the additional address, but as I am now up-to-date, all I got was the dialog box saying that my AVG is already recent. This in itself I take as a good thing as there has been a response back from the server.

Don't know how long - or even if - this will work (the danger of telling people of a work-around) but its another option!

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Nothing called 'url' with an icon that looks like a text page with a small gear wheel? That's an .ini (configuration) file.

Right click and open in notepad.

As for 'damaged and disconnects', I got that too with some of the sites but not all. And least - hopefully - you've now got a choice within AVG or manually in desperation...

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Ah, well...sorry. Not everybody does know what they look like. Or cares.

(Nor should they have to, but I digress....) ;)

Maybe this lack of a url.ini has something to do with the version of AVG you've got and/or maybe that's the reason your AVG is having (even more) problems connecting?

Dunno otherwise.

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So...

The forced tweaks to give AVG Free's Update Manager a selection of download sites seems to have helped (I have the most success with download.grisoft.com) but I wonder if anyone else has this situation -

I have the Update Manager set to check daily for downloads and update the new definitions as applicable. Now I know that sometimes there will not be new set - or the date of the current set is less than one day old - but a number of times I have found that, at the appointed time, AVG does not go online and do a check - and when I have then done it manually, sure enough there is a new set and the update takes place. This doesn't always happen - sometimes it does activate, finds the update and installs - or it activates, finds nothing and exits.

Odd.

I have noted that AVG will do a scheduled scan within a few minutes of the set time and wondered about that with Update Manager, but I have watched and if it's going to check, its pretty timely - and if its not, it just doesn't.

Anyone else? Or an explanation?

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You naughty, naughty little boy! ;) It's too bad that they make you have Serial #s in order to use it. They're are smart if you think about it. If somebody found that and they didn't, the AVG7 would be going off free without their consent.

PS- Those I think are the direct links to the downloads/updates for AVG6.

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You naughty, naughty little boy! ;) It's too bad that they make you have Serial #s in order to use it. They're are smart if you think about it. If somebody found that and they didn't, the AVG7 would be going off free without their consent.

PS- Those I think are the direct links to the downloads/updates for AVG6.

I used to have a, well, less than legal version of AVG7. But then i bought it :) Brilliant software

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Yeah, I couldn't use the autoupdate feature from within AVG, didn't even connect to the servers, I had to do it manually. I dunno if it's a temp problem they're having or what.

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i had the same problem yesterday, but it's fine now. just a hiccup on their servers?

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