antivirus wont update

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  1. divedog

    divedog Registered Member

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    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?
     
    divedog, Jan 19, 2005
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    mercurie A Friendly Creature

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    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.
     
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    I figured it out. For some strange reason the firewall needs to be on for the update function to work.
     
    divedog, Jan 20, 2005
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    Prushka, Jan 20, 2005
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