[new tech guy]

Hello folks,
I have a small question to ask about avg antivirus free editon. I am running of course, the 8.5 edition and had a small problem with it having a little false positive fit. Usually ive seen this from avg before and they would have a small dot update that would fix it but lately im noticing that my . updates are not happening for instance, avg 8.5.283 and the installed version on my pc according to the main avg window is: 8.5.278. What is odd is that the program does not update. Now, i have the new ad aware anniversary edition installed on my pc and heard a report from my dad with it interfering with an install. Could this be causing the problem? Because other menial updates do work properly in avg and i have no problem. Is anyone else having this problem? If anyone has a solution please let me know. Also, is it normal for avg to not update the main program through its own updater?
Thanks!

[golferbob]

mine didn't update so i just uninstalled and downloaded the newer one. this has happened to me twice so far this year.

[Reuel Miller]

Greetings

I have been using AVG avidly for YEARS. And ever since the upgrade to version 8 I have been ever increasingly disappointed with it. I have noticed that it stops updating because it can not find the AVG update sites. When I change the "update.avg.com" in the settings to the site's IP address, it suddenly starts updating again. But even with that solved, it was not catching everything I wanted it to catch.

It has taken me a long time to come to this decision, but I recently uninstalled AVG and am now trying out Avast. I am not convinced Avast is any better, but at least it updates regularly, and found a host of trojans in old files I had downloaded from the net ages ago in my old "Downloads" directory (that had been scanned daily by AVG for about 3 years).

[new tech guy]

Yeah i am noticing this pattern as well. Im wondering however where the problem lies....Last night I added the new version to mine and happy to see that a bad false positive rash i was in finally subsided. Im wondering why they are getting so sloppy with this program recently.

[new tech guy]

The main false positive is downright rediculous, whenever i insert my flashdrive it thinks the autorun.inf file for u3 is infected.