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Asked Aug 16, 2008, 02:54 PM — 28 Answers
I have AVG free v.8.0.138 (running Vista on wireless laptop) and all of the sudden is telling me that a .bin file is missing. I tried updating but it gives me an unspecified error and tells me *update failed*. Any ideas?

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Aug 16, 2008, 03:12 PM
Reinstall AVG
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Aug 16, 2008, 03:15 PM
I am having the same problem and I have re-installed as well
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Aug 16, 2008, 03:20 PM
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Originally Posted by tequilatart
I have AVG free v.8.0.138 (running Vista on wireless laptop) and all of the sudden is telling me that a .bin file is missing. I tried updating but it gives me an unspecified error and tells me *update failed*. Any ideas?
I have the same problem so let me know what works.
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Aug 16, 2008, 03:20 PM
Same thing here what do you do?
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Aug 16, 2008, 03:24 PM
If an over the top reinstall fails then clear it out completely and start over.
Uninstall it and clean registry entries. CCleaner - Home will help with this.
Then reboot and reinstall.

Should fix the issue.

Also are you sure this isn't a bad update being sent by AVG themselves, it does happen from time to time,
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Aug 16, 2008, 03:26 PM
It appears that the problem is new and happen to everybody using freeware version.
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Aug 16, 2008, 03:44 PM
Its a bad update coming from AVG itself

The update is looking for a .bin file on their server and it cannot download - so instead of providing a meaningful message - the installer just says "bin file missing"

Will have to wait for AVG to fix.

Ill give them 24 hours max - then I'm dumping their software and moving to something else
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Aug 16, 2008, 03:57 PM
Both of my computers are having the same problem. Has anyone contacted AVG?
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Aug 16, 2008, 04:03 PM
I had the same problem but got it to work.

Step one: fire up AVG and click on Update Now.
Step two: when the list of updates is shown in the popup window, click on the link to tell you more. This will take you to a list of the updates you're trying to, well, update.
Step three: click on and save to your computer the all updates except the last one - http://downloadfree.avg.com/update/u7iavi1616oo.bin - because it isn't there.
Step four: cancel the update.
Step five: instead click on Tools->Update from Directory and browse to wherever you downloaded the file.

It should work from there.

HTH,

John Anderson
Soaring Penguin Ltd.

PS. Tell your friends.
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