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General Software Discussion / Re: AOL active virus shield fails to update - is it just me?

« on: September 18, 2007, 10:15 AM »

I had to reinstall AVS,
and to my surprise it connected and updated from the aol servers without any problems.
I forced it to update from the kaspersky servers again, but the updates on the aol server really are the most recent ones.

Maybe they got too many complaints and actually listened, as hard as that is to imagine.

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General Software Discussion / Re: AOL active virus shield fails to update - is it just me?

« on: September 07, 2007, 05:44 PM »

I fixed it.

Since I'm quite fond of my free legal Kaspersky (AOL) Scanner, i looked for a workaround, and it looks like i found it.

Close the scanner.
Start Notepad, and open
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AOL\AVP6\Data\aol-updcfg.xml

This is the file containing the update servers.
Remove the lines for the aol servers, it should be the first two in the list,
something like http://downloads.newaol.com, it definitely has aol in the address.
Leave all the kaspersky servers in the list.
Save the file.
Restart the scanner.

Mine updated perfectly afterwards.