Why are you selecting this option rather than update from web or whatever it's called in AVG? If you have deleted downloaded updates then using the local update option makes no sense.However, after each attempt of updating by selecting "Desktop" for "Folder", I was informed that:
If you cannot browse to the website then there is something more fundamental wrong than just a problem with AVG. Can you access any site (you could be accessing AAM from another PC I suppose)?However, I could not find that ....! Tried to go to www.grisoft.com and start over again, but still in the same loop - was told to update.
Hi, all.
Was away this weekend - thanks for all your replies. Have found the cause of the problem - it was Norton Firewall that needs turning off, which I did so, and once the latest version of AVGFree 7.5 is installed and Internet connection made, the Norton Firewall is then turned on.
Thanks for your help - interesting to hear your opinions on AVG, etc.
Cheers,
allendog
I think it may be a bad idea to have more than one virus scanner doing live on access checking but there's often no harm in having more than one installed and doing manual scans with each. On the other hand I too have read of problems with certain combinations of scanners even if only one was doing live checking but I'm not sure what the state of play is these days. Probably best to read the release notes/manual of each virus scanner before installing more than one.Interesting. Would have thought it somewhat of overkill to have Norton and AVG on the one PC. I thought I read somewhere that it was not a good idea to have two anti-virus products running at the same time as it can cause conflicts.
Agree totally!so I got rid of Norton. Bloomin' bloatware...
Yes - it can be confusing. For what it's worth I run ZoneAlarm firewall and AVG. I also have a bunch of other things installed for on demand or periodic scanning/cleaning- namely Windows Defender, Ad-aware, CCleaner, ewido, Microsoft Baseline Security Advisor, Spybot, SpywareBlaster. I've never really figured out how to configure my D-Link DI-524's firewall properly but it's on my TODO list!good point. Norton was already pre-installed when I obtained the laptop. As for 'overkill', it's quite confusing as to whether it's necessary to have, as well for anti-virus, software for anti-spam, anti-adware, anti-spyware and anti- ...... !?
With some email clients (e.g. Outlook Express) you can download and view the raw source of the message to see the headers in case they are of any use in tracing spam without actually opening the email and allowing active content (e.g. Javascript, ActiveX some HTML etc.) to report your address back to spammers as a live hit. There are probably also utilities for doing the same thing. However possibly not of any real use other than if you are just curious.dont open them so I dont know where they are coming from.
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