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?

Curlyben

Reinstall AVG

Trev17

I am having the same problem and i have re-installed as well

MeRcYz

I have the same problem so let me know what works.

merle ganz

Same thing here what do you do?

Curlyben

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,

nebular

It appears that the problem is new and happen to everybody using freeware version.

enjee

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 Im dumping their software and moving to something else

prujjj

Both of my computers are having the same problem. Has anyone contacted AVG?

spenguin

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.