Posted: December 31st, 2008 | Author: Jon | Filed under: System Administration | Tags: antivirus, avg8 | No Comments »
While I’m on the subject of AVG 8 this one has been bugging me for a while now. If you don’t want AVG 8 LinkScanner putting annoying little green stars next to your web search results then you can disable the LinkScanner component in the AVG UI. However this causes AVG to show you a nice big error icon in the systray area.
I spent ages trying to stop it from doing this when AVG 8 first came out but couldn’t find an option anywhere. Looks like a recent update has resolved this as you can now right click on the LinkScanner component and select the ‘Ignore component state’ option to stop AVG reporting the fact that you’ve disabled it as an error!
Posted: December 31st, 2008 | Author: Jon | Filed under: System Administration | Tags: antivirus, avg8, windowsvista, windowsxp | 1 Comment »
For a few days now AVG Anti-Virus Free 8 has been complaining about it’s database being out of date. When I’ve tried manually running the update feature I get the following error:
“Invalid Update Control CTF File”
I finally got round to doing something about this yesterday, I did a quick scan for all .CTF files and found a couple in:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\avg8\update\download
I deleted the .CTF files in this folder (I left the .BIN files alone) and tried running the update feature again. Ran without a problem this time and downloaded an definitions update fine.
I’ve got no idea how AVG got itself into this state but it was simple to fix. I’m running Windows XP by the way, the location of the files may be different on Windows Vista.
