Cure for AVG update difficulties

  • Thread starter Thread starter Mark Warner
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This has worked well for me, and apparently for others as well:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.comp.anti-virus/msg/c0ddae59968efbda

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Hey Mark

tried it out...never seen AVG 7 snap to attention and do its appointed tasks
like this. Nice tip, certainly alleviates a lot of frustration. I placed it
in the location described as the last line and it works fine so I guess
that's where it goes as the note in the above link doesn't specify exactly
where to place it.

thanks eh,

rocker
 
Mark, this is great! I've been unable to update avg for several days. I
just added the line to the hosts file, and the update started right away!

Thanks!
 
This has worked well for me, and apparently for others as well:
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Yes it has... but now stop spreading the news... unless you want
everybody and his dog to use that same server. Pretty soon that
one will be equally slow ... sigh!
C.
 
I tried the solution but have a little problem.When notepad closes it
ask's if I want to save changes,which I do.It then becomes a text
file.How do I keep it from becoming a text file?
 
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:19:30 +0000, mistersmitty wrote:
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I tried the solution but have a little problem.When notepad closes it
ask's if I want to save changes,which I do.It then becomes a text file.How
do I keep it from becoming a text file?
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Just outright `save` instead of `save as` or navigate to the file and
rename w/o extension.
 
mistersmitty said:
I tried the solution but have a little problem.When notepad closes it
ask's if I want to save changes,which I do.It then becomes a text
file.How do I keep it from becoming a text file?
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Same thing happens to me. I may have turned the hosts file off though in
powertoys and/or x-teq.
 
dszady said:
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:19:30 +0000, mistersmitty wrote:
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Just outright `save` instead of `save as` or navigate to the file and
rename w/o extension.
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Won't let you.

It wants to make it a txt extension. And Save is working in the same
manner.
 
Charles said:
Yes it has... but now stop spreading the news... unless you want
everybody and his dog to use that same server. Pretty soon that
one will be equally slow ... sigh!
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Believe it or not, I actually sat on it for a couple days, thinking the
same thing. The original post that I linked had been quoted and posted
to a newsgroup on a private server. Last night I found out through
Google that it had originated on alt.comp.anti-virus; it was gonna
spread from there, regardless of li'l ol' me. I figured I'd might as
well post it and get all the props while it was still relatively new
news. <G>
 
I tried the solution but have a little problem.When notepad closes it
ask's if I want to save changes,which I do.It then becomes a text
file.How do I keep it from becoming a text file?
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Make mark the name, use "F2"-key, and rename it to "hosts".

Alternatively you can make a click with your right mouse button
and choose "rename" :-)

C.
 
Believe it or not, I actually sat on it for a couple days, thinking the
same thing. The original post that I linked had been quoted and posted
to a newsgroup on a private server. Last night I found out through
Google that it had originated on alt.comp.anti-virus; it was gonna
spread from there, regardless of li'l ol' me. I figured I'd might as
well post it and get all the props while it was still relatively new
news. <G>
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Well: THANK YOU :-))
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On the other hand - let's not forget it's FREEWARE ... and these
daily updates might cost quite a lot of bandwidth ... :-((
I'd rather wait a couple of minutes for an update as long there will
be a next one :-))
C.
 
Charles said:
Well: THANK YOU :-))
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On the other hand - let's not forget it's FREEWARE ... and these
daily updates might cost quite a lot of bandwidth ... :-((
I'd rather wait a couple of minutes for an update as long there will
be a next one :-))
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Buddy of mine was having difficulties, and I sent this tweak to him.
Then we had a bit of a back-and-forth about how this might all wash out.

Below is my take on it:

Do you suppose Grisoft is using a slow server to nudge us
freeloaders into anteing up for the PRO version?
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Me, I think it's growing pains. Freeware is getting a lot of good
"mainstream" press, online and otherwise. Most often touted are Ad-Aware
and Spybot, but other apps (like AVG) are getting more widespread
attention. You don't have to be a geek anymore to understand that yes,
there really are good, free, safe apps out there that people are just
flat giving away. It takes people a while to get their heads wrapped
around that ("You get what you pay for"), but it's happening.

Same thing happened with version 6, 'til word got out that the url.ini
file could be edited and alternative servers accessed. Supposedly,
Grisoft gave that a wink and a nod -- they didn't want to get a bad rep,
even with the freeloaders.

Dunno what Grisoft's response will be. This particular hack just showed
up on grc.com; it'll no doubt balloon from there. I suspect they just
plain underestimated the kind of load the free server was gonna be
under. In a normal business model, that would be a good problem to have.
Dunno how it would work with the two-tiered free/pay model. I spose the
beancounters and the techies and the sales suits will have to do some
kind of cost/benefit analysis and go from there. In the long term, I
suspect server costs and bandwidth costs are a small piece of the
puzzle. My bet is on the Grisoft geeks and suits beating off the
beancounters and keeping us freeloaders in the fold.
 
Wrap the file name in quotes to prevent it from adding the .txt extension.
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Excellent. Quicker solution at that.
The WinEX rename works also, but the quote wrapper is more timely.
 
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