Why cant I update my AVG 8.0?

Question

Well my anti virus and anti spyware are out of date and whenever I tried updating it nothing would happen except for that notification saying " checking for updates. Can I do something about this?"

Answer 1

Yes, I have this problem recently too - I think there is an issue with the update server currently. I would just wait and see what happens.

Answer 2

You can see, that I answer a lot of questions here at Yahoo Answers.

Level 5 in 6 weeks, so when I tell you, that over the last couple of weeks I have seen many many askers with the same problem as yours. Since AVG8 it has become a real big problem and because of that I stopped recommending AVG. I advise now, to uninstall AVG and install Avast free

I would not do that, when there are 1 or 2 complaints per day, but when there are 10 to 20 a day. I will not recommend it any longer

Yesterday I replied to 3 questions in 10 minutes and all 3 about AVG

Answer 3

I was able to update AVG as follows after getting disconnected constantly.

Go to http://free.avg.com/ww.download-update and download all the updates to a folder.

Run AVG and go to tools > run update from directory.

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Answer 4

since avg has come out with version 8.0 its just been problems,uninstall it and install avast,its free and better than avg

Answer 5

Just keep asking to update, I think they problem might be with their side of things, just keep at it, I am also having problems with it as well. That's what I did and it finally did so.