AVG Free Update?

[OptiPlex]

I need to update my AVG 6.0 Free Edition virus definitions (2 weeks old).

I use automatic update and that craps out.

The links at AVG's website return a 404.

Where can I download the latest definitions?

[Veedems Veteran]

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?act=...dpost&p=1888202

[bazcook]

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!

[OptiPlex]

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