AVG update server is so slow

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Locke said:
You cannot add new servers in the free edition however you can use this
sneaky little fix I came up with.

Your hosts file in windows 9x/me is in your windows folder with no
extension.
In XP/2k its in windows\system32\drivers\etc with no extension.

1. Open up your hosts file in notepad.
2. Add the following line

193.86.103.19 guru.grisoft.com

What this does is actually tells your computer to connect to www.grisoft.com
(which works) and not guru.grisoft.com to perform updates.

-L
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Bingo!

Thanks for tip. It only took a few seconds to update :))

John
 
Wonder how long it will take them to spot this thread and change the
setup of their servers :o)
 
This problem still exists as of today ( 2005 02 02)
I've started posting updates over in
ALT.BINARIES.WAREZ.IBM-PC
I can't post the updates here because this newsgroup doesn't allow
binary attachments.
I posted a message to this effect on the AVG Free-Forum but apparently
it wasn't cleared for posting.

You can do a "manual" update IF you can get through the servers to the
update file.

I've provided links in my messages to the correct AVG pages, both the
Forum and the Update.
 
Murray,


Grisoft seems to keep the AV updates on almost all of their servers, so this
fix should be solid for a long time. However I do have to warn people that
applied my fix that if for some reason Grisoft quits using a web server on
193.86.103.19, and changes the DNS for www.grisoft.com the updates will
start to fail.


In such a case all you would need to do is do a nslookup on www.grisoft.com
to get the new IP address and change your hosts file.

-L
 
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