Avg offline update virus definition

As you explained, please check the sub folders and check if you can see any difference in the name. Appreciate your efforts in doing all these steps. We are aware of this, our virus updates are delayed and released only once per day or two.

Also the information in User inferface can be wrong. Windows users are fully protected via streming update service. Version info for these updates is not displayed in UI.

Open the lastest one and you can see the streaming update packages. The file that has the latest timestamp is the one which got downloaded during the very recent streaming update. English X. Have a question?

All of them have stopped receiving virus definition updates since 11 November. Definitons are not updated. Given AVG normally has several sets of virus definitions per day, this seems suspicious and, indeed, there have been numerous examples of this fault occurring in recent years, documented in fairly fiery threads on this forum, such as this one.

On one machine to experiment I have followed instructions from previous instances on this forum where the flow of virus definitions had seized up. Update the software using the downloadable offline updater aviupd. Virus defs still stuck at 2. Virus defs still stuck at As this seems to be affecting more than on installation it would seem to be a problem in the software, not in local installations. Here are two screenshots that might be of use: Update page from the product Content of the virus definitions folder which seem to show folders representing unsuccessful attempts to load more recent virus definition sets Can you escalate this as necessary as has been done in previous instances,please?

That seems to have worked in the past Cheers, David PS Appalled that I have to upload screenshots to 3rd party location on the web in order to add to this post. Why can't I simply drop them into the post and upload to AVG??? Let me check with our senior team and expect a reply from us soon. Your patience is much appreciated.

Our developers are aware of this issue and they are working on high priority to fix it. We would like to clarify that the program is able to receive daily virus definitions updates and install it. The problem is with the date appearing incorrectly. Thank you for understanding. David Freedman The problem appears unrelated to streaming updates. This is the setting I have by default on all installations of AVG Internet Security: I did not need to turn it on since it was already on.

I can't seem to show you a picture of the directory where all the action isn't, due to your convoluted process for uploading images but the description is this.

Within this there are: A current folder whose name corresponds to the currently reported definition set. For example my AV current says latest definition set is and the folder is named "".

Several other folders whose names suggest more recent attempts to update sit alongside this folder. The folders contain many small files with the extension ". A file aswdefs. Priyanga Sekar Sitel Thank you for providing us more clarity about your concern. I will check with our senior team and let you know the status here.

Appreciate your patience. Shawn Engleman Avast Hello David. Thank you very much for your time and for writing back. All their paid products download similar small setup files from the standard download pages and you have to visit the support tab to get the full installers. Instead you get the 2MB web installer. The biggest installer file available for the free Bitdefender is around MB and still requires internet access to download another archive EXE and then the definitions.

This just means a slightly smaller amount of data to download during install. The only way to get the full size installer which is around an 11MB file, is to download and run the small K installer which will then download the larger standalone setup installer to the below folder and then run it:.

Do note the download may take a few seconds to begin. Panda have a useful wiki page for instructions on installing the cloud antivirus product, and this page also includes a link to the full offline installer. Simply visit the page below which points directly to the download link to get the full installer. The latest file is currently 9.

Altering the version number to match any newer version should work. Use the path of:. Sites like TechSpot and DownloadCrew will usually tell you what the latest version number is. Zonealarm has a static page of full offline installers for the paid products but not for the free version. It is easy to get though, simply go to the standard download link and click on it. It will be something like:. Simply paste the URL into the browser address bar not paste and go and delete Web from the file name.

Then visit the edited URL and the latest installer will download. Just delete the small install file that automatically downloaded. As on date the link is : avg. AVG Antivirus x86 and x64 avg. AVG IS x86 and x64 avg. AVG Free x86 and x64 free. Please restart your computer and check if you are able to run AVG update. If you face any difficulties, feel free to contact us. You need to sign in to do that. Need an account?

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