My AVG free 8.0 sent me a little window lettintg me know a .bin file is missing. Confused, I went into the overview and the update manager has a ".bin file missing" next to it with a red x by it, and apparently I'm not protected.

What does this mean and how do I fix it?

I just got the same message....what do I do now?

Check this out: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080816150515AAIyiKK

It apears that many people (including myself) have this problem, and we got it at the same time (today 08/16/2008) so it must be and AVG problem which should be fixed for tomorrow.

Anyway, you can try downloading manual update from the AVG website

Good luck

Weird, lol.

I'm really pleased to see that I'm not the only one with this problem today... its sunday the 17th here in Australia...
at first I thought that I would have to re-install it because I had a power cut yesterday when my computer was running and thought that maybe it had done some software damage...
thankfully this makes me think that it must be an avg problem, lets hope we hear something soon...

I also received this message today!

me too im receiving the same message just today though its 17aug'08 here in my place..

How do we fix it?

I came across the same problem but got it sorted.

1 - Start up AVG,click Update Now.
2 - The list of updates is shown in Popup, click on the more information link.A list of updates will be shown.
3 - Click on and save all updates in a file except the last one - http://downloadfree.avg.com/update/u7iavi1616oo.bin - because this is causing the problem.
4 - Cancel the update and instead click on Tools > Update from Directory and go to the file where you saved the updates.Install these and AVG should be working properly again.

same thing here...mine popped up when i went to do a manual update..

Confirmation that the problem is with AVG, as suspected by the fact that everyone was affected at the same time, and not the individual users: This is copied from the AVG Free Forum.

"Currently the update for AVG Free v8 is corrupted... you will have to wait for AVG Technologies to address the issue with the update.

Reporting the issue again by other users here will not do any good util it is resolved.

The updates that your AVG currently have will still provide the protection it is setup to detect. In otherwords, just getting this update will not make your AVG Free ineffective and as soon as AVG Tech resolves the issue you will be able to update to the current virus definitions at that time.

So in short... please do not post to report the issue, its already known. Also please be patient until AVG Technologies can address the issue."

Hi there! I want to say that I have the same problem with AVG v8 as You have. It's Sunday 17 August here in Poland now ( 01:56 AM). I worried that my AVG is infected or something like that, but I see that is "global" problem so I hope that AVG will be ok soon.

yeh ty for tht guys mines up and running again...

ty for the easy to read instructions on how to get it working

very gratefull

ty

That process worked for me. Waiting to see if there will be an issue with the next automatic update... :-)

woah!!! it worked..

great great..

now i have peace of mind!!

Thanks!!

Hi, I live in Central America and I'm so pleased to see I'm not the only one with this problem... too. It's Sat 16 Aug 2008, 6:15 PM here in Nicaragua.