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    Updated Avira Antivir, now Guard won't start....

    Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by blackmamba, Jun 10, 2009.

  1. blackmamba

    blackmamba Notebook Evangelist

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    Anybody else have this problem? I just updated to the latest version with latest definitions and now, I can't start my Antivir Guard. I'm running Vista Home Premium 64bit btw.

    I checked the Avira forums and it seems there are others that have the same problem.

    Has anyone on NBR found a solution? :confused:
     
    blackmamba, Jun 10, 2009
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  2. McGrady

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    I don't have this problem on any of 4 of my OS's, x32 and x64 :confused:
     
    McGrady, Jun 10, 2009
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    Vista Business SP2 64-bit, did the Avira Antivir update today... and Guard is running, and I haven't seen any problems.

    The update did say though that you need to reboot after updating... did you reboot?
     
    swarmer, Jun 10, 2009
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  4. McGrady

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    I didn't get an update today that needed a reboot.
     
    McGrady, Jun 10, 2009
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    I was offline during a scheduled update but just now a manual update downloaded 19 files without asking for a reboot. Think I'll reboot anyway.
     
    Hiker, Jun 10, 2009
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  6. blackmamba

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    Hmm. Weird.

    Yeah I did reboot. Let me do some more digging. I'll report back here to update.
     
    blackmamba, Jun 10, 2009
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    I did a product update yesterday and it downloaded 18 files. After the update was installed Avira did not ask me to do restart but my Guard is still active so I'm assuming it updated successfully. I have noticed that definition file updates today have been excruciatingly slow, taking more than five minutes to scan and download a very small new definition file. I don't know if the slowness has to do with Avira's servers being overwhelmed or if the product update had anything to do with it.
     
    yuyi64, Jun 10, 2009
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  8. McGrady

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    I just realized, there was a product version update yday to 9.0.0.403.
    Still didn't need to reboot though and my guard is still enabled.
     
    McGrady, Jun 10, 2009
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