It seems like a lot users of the the free version of AVG antivirus is having problems reciving the latest update, and is getting the message “A .bin file is missing”
If you are in this situation, there is a simple solution to the problem, just follow the steps below.
1 - Start up AVG, click Update Now.
2 - The updates is shown in a Popup, click on the “more information link” and the full list of updates will be shown.
3 - Save all updates in a folder on your computer except the last one - u7iavi1616oo.bin because this is causing the problem.
4 - Download u7iavi1616oo.bin from http://akamai.avg.com/update/u7iavi1616oo.bin instead and save it in the folder you created above.
5 - Cancel the update and instead click on Tools > Update from Directory and go to the file where you saved the updates. Install these and AVG should be working properly again.
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11 Users Responded in " AVG Free Antivirus - Update Problems "
thanks a lot, this really helped. it worked for me. thanks!
Allelujah, it’s working, this trick is working.
I will save files, transfer to flash drive and use on all my others systems.
It seams AVG must fix- update problematic file with automatic update from AVG interface.
Thanks for the solution.
Thank you so much, works properly again now.
Hey!!! thanks so much was worrying about not been protected!!!
Thank you for this, it is now working properly. I trust he next update wioll work properly by itself!
It is 8/28/08… I tried this, which sounded like it was what I wanted… but I do not have a “more information link” on my popup. I only have Update or Cancel
My problem is that the update keeps failing… have never had this problem before… no other error message. If I don’t have this link on my popup… how can I get around this?
Just tried that link for the .bin file — does not seem to be working…
A different file worked for the 8\28\2008 problem
1)manually download the following file:
http://downloadfree.avg.com/update/u7iavi164044.bin
Access the “Update from directory” from the “Tools” tab on the main AVG interface, & then point it in the direction where you saved the file.
Note:
the above mentioned file is for the”Free” version of AVG
The above fix is for AVG Free 8.0
It didn’t work for me. Any other ideas?
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