antivirus wont update

I had AVG running on an old ME box and tried to update it today and it timed out. I thought no problem I have been wanting to try F-Prot anyway so I downloaded the trial version and to my amazement when I tried to update it timed out to. I had a splash screen that said check your internet connection and firewall I have the fire wall turned off and the ME box is running off a router. TDS updates fine and so does Bo Clean. I have F-Prot configured to update on the internet. the only other option is LAN. Does anyone have any ideas?

 

Try reboot...it worked for me several times when I lost my connection to internet or things went weird like that when I had ME OS. hope this works.

 

I figured it out. For some strange reason the firewall needs to be on for the update function to work.

 

Don't know maybe this will help
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5471/lng/us/tpl/v5