Avira AntiVir taking forever to update

So I did a system restore this morning to fix an error message, and when it was complete my Avira was being strange (strange meaning its Guard wouldn't turn on). So I reinstalled it, but after it installs and it's searching for the newest updates, it takes about an hour to find them, and then it says it will take more than 30,000 hours to download...I've installed the same version of Avira on multiple computers, yet it never took this long to get the latest updates (maybe less than 5 minutes).

What's going on? Should I just try a different anti virus protection?

 

Avira has been getting slower and slower at getting updates because the servers for the free version are overloaded. This is one of the drawbacks to the free version. It's too bad that they only give the premium members the fast update servers.
Avira says that they're working on it, but I don't think too much will be done.

You might want to give Microsoft Security Essentials a try. It's gotten great reviews.

 

Avira updates have been slow and large (file-size wise) the last couple of days. Yesterday it took almost an hour for the updates to download and today about 45 minutes. I agree that the free servers are getting highly overloaded lately. Perhaps we brought this on ourselves by recommending Avira Free to so many people.

 

Why dont you try downloading the update manually from here.

Thats what i do when the server's are overloaded and speeds are very slow. Its much faster and simpler from the link; that is if you dont hate manually downloading the updates sometimes.

 

I have been searching for a way to do this for ages arjunned.

Thanks for the link and obviously a +1 for you

 

Only glad to help bro.