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31 Replies Last post: Jan 10, 2008 4:06 PM by mphenterprises   1 2 3 Previous Next
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Dec 20, 2007 1:27 AM

AVG 7.5 Requires Restart After Each Update

Has anyone run into this situation? Each time AVG Anti-Virus 7.5 updates its virus database, it prompts me to restart my computer. This has been going on for at least the last two weeks. I know that, yes, sometimes this is a requirement but every update for the last couple weeks is stretching it. Any opinions?

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IvanC
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1. Dec 20, 2007 7:50 AM in response to: mphenterprises
Re: AVG 7.5 Requires Restart After Each Update

Me too. Each time i updated, I need to reboot.
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2. Dec 20, 2007 7:57 AM in response to: IvanC
Re: AVG 7.5 Requires Restart After Each Update
Okay, this may just be a normal procedural thing. I will wait to see how many other people share our experiences.

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3. Dec 20, 2007 9:57 AM in response to: mphenterprises
Re: AVG 7.5 Requires Restart After Each Update

I dont use avg antivirus but I am using avg antispyware 7.5, which updates normally .



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4. Dec 20, 2007 10:25 AM in response to: piyushsingh
Re: AVG 7.5 Requires Restart After Each Update
Hi piyushsingh. Yes, AVG Anti-Spyware is fine for me as well. This may just be a string of "required restarts." I hope that I can get some more feedback to see if this assumption is correct.

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5. Dec 20, 2007 11:01 AM in response to: mphenterprises
Re: AVG 7.5 Requires Restart After Each Update
I too have noticed this in the past few weeks. It is annoying when there is a critical update and a recomended update and I have to restart twice, just to update AVG. But, I can live with it. After all, There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
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6. Dec 20, 2007 11:09 AM in response to: sailorman49
Re: AVG 7.5 Requires Restart After Each Update
Hi Sailorman. Yes, that is definitely true. If this is the biggest issue I have regarding security (and coincidentally it is) then my situation is pretty good. :-) I can live with the daily restarts to update AVG, I guess. I just wanted to make sure I was not the only one.

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7. Dec 20, 2007 11:30 AM in response to: mphenterprises
Re: AVG 7.5 Requires Restart After Each Update
:D Hi all :

Always best to check on the Support Forums of the Product ; I went to

http://forum.grisoft.cz/freeforum/list.php?1 and saw 1 Post about this "situation" and the implication

there was at least 1 more .

Maybe 1 or more of their "Stickys" address it as well !?

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8. Dec 20, 2007 11:29 AM in response to: SpiritWind
Re: AVG 7.5 Requires Restart After Each Update
Thanks Spiritl; however, for something like this...that is not quite a "critical" situation in my opinion, I figured I would just ask here first. Thanks for the link, though.

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9. Dec 20, 2007 6:42 PM in response to: mphenterprises
Re: AVG 7.5 Requires Restart After Each Update


mphenterprises wrote:Has anyone run into this situation? Each time AVG Anti-Virus 7.5 updates its virus database, it prompts me to restart my computer. This has been going on for at least the last two weeks. I know that, yes, sometimes this is a requirement but every update for the last couple weeks is stretching it. Any opinions?
I have it on occasion, but it's generally ONLY when I've installed an actual ((((((program update)))))) The virus definitions themselves don't always require a reboot.
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10. Dec 20, 2007 8:15 PM in response to: mphenterprises
Re: AVG 7.5 Requires Restart After Each Update
mine updates for me about every time I start my computer, fortunately he doesn't have me restart my computer every time either. You could always try to manually update your system, its possible that something is messing you up so you can't actually update it. Keep an eye on what file package is being updated. Make sure its not the same one again and again.

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11. Dec 21, 2007 8:06 PM in response to: mphenterprises
Re: AVG 7.5 Requires Restart After Each Update
Hi mph, I'm with aurora on this in that AVG up dates almost daily and I have yet to be required to do a restart. There is a place in XP that you can check to not require restarts after updates, but I forgot where the bloomin thing was. I just saw it the other day but didn't pay any attention to it, except to the fact that it was checked. It may have been in AVG itself for all I can remember. coastie65

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12. Dec 21, 2007 8:22 PM in response to: mphenterprises
Re: AVG 7.5 Requires Restart After Each Update

Hey MPH! I too have had to restart my PC after Updates from AVG. Three times last week. But today, so far, no restart. So no your not the only one. My guess is that there must have been some program updates, at least a couple of them. That might be over, since they did not ask to restart today.


FLASHORN.

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Hey MPH! This is All we get when we try to access your BLOG.

We're sorry but a serious error has occurred in the system. If you are a system administrator
please click "more details" below for more information about this error.

I was SOOO looking forward to reading about your experience(after all this time of looking at your signature) Can you explain why, and how much longer are you going to torture us.LOL


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13. Dec 21, 2007 8:37 PM in response to: Flashorn
Re: AVG 7.5 Requires Restart After Each Update
Same thing happened to me, I had to click on the link under the blog title (every once in awhile you have to treat yourself...) when I went to that link I clicked on "View mphenterprises Profile" link in the upper right hand corner, it brought me to it that way, and even then I couldn't post a comment w/o the same error notice. So yes, I'm going nuts too :-)

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Flashorn
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14. Dec 21, 2007 8:51 PM in response to: Car54
Re: AVG 7.5 Requires Restart After Each Update

Hey Car! He's just trying to get back at us. He's had that sig. up for sooo long now He thought he could get away with it. Yeah, I tried doing it that way to and the samre results. I have had problems with other threads to tonight. Is the forum going to crash again.


FLASHORN.

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