>>>>>>>Maybe I'm a bit slow on this but are AVG now bullying us into buying, rather than FREE. Lately all my updates have failed, I go to their site, there's no free edition offered, a link for free users' updates that goes round in a loop, etc. Any recommendations?
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>>>>>>Here is a link in Australia that appears to have that which you seek.
>>>>>>http://www.avg.com.au/index.cfm?section=avg&action=avg_anti_virus_free_edition
>>>>>>Scroll down a bit to find the download.
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>>>>>Thanks Grady. It's very similar to the AVG site proper, and an attempt to download free 8 resulted in the same "cannot find ... " message as I get when the daily update starts - that's my point.
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>>>>I went to http://www.avg.com/download-trial and found the free version on that page. I downloaded it without a problem. If I download it again, I might be able to email it to you or we could do a file transfer in messenger.
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>>>Thanks Grady. I've downloaded it. But I'm still getting the "CANNOT ACCESS THE SERVER" message.
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>>>And now I'm getting a failure to update Windows Defender.
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>>>I checked through my ZoneAlarm firewall last night and made sure all these sites were allowed.
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>>>I don't know. It's as if my puter's suddenly become obstinate and is refusing to change. I'm fearful of web access now cos all my protection is out of date.
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>>>Any ideas anyone?
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>>This is beginning to sound as if there might be mod done by a nasty little virus. What do you think? If you concur try getting stinger from McAfee. It's free. Here's the link to it: http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=stinger
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>I concur
>I shall
>I thank you.

FYI - I recently cleaned a machine that had similar symptoms. The virus was named brisv.alinf - Oddly I notice that if the letters are re-arranged it spells virvs.final Looks as if the jerk who wrote the thing cannot spell :)) The fellow who got the virus had clicked on a notification in a yellow line across the top of this screen that invited him to download free anti-virus named 360AV - I read somewher that you may have to resort to 'manual removal' - I had success by running AVG on slow scan over night. Good luck, Terry.