The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Avira AntiVir taking forever to update

    Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by ton247, Oct 29, 2009.

  1. ton247

    ton247 Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    38
    Messages:
    426
    Likes Received:
    9
    Trophy Points:
    31
    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?
     
    ton247, Oct 29, 2009
    #1
  2. jpzsports

    jpzsports Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    376
    Messages:
    669
    Likes Received:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    31
    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.
     
    jpzsports, Oct 29, 2009
    #2
  3. yuyi64

    yuyi64 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    38
    Messages:
    260
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    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.
     
    yuyi64, Oct 29, 2009
    #3
  4. arjunned

    arjunned Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    288
    Messages:
    766
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    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. :)
     
    arjunned, Oct 30, 2009
    #4
  5. TeeJay 44

    TeeJay 44 Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    1,020
    Messages:
    1,048
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    I have been searching for a way to do this for ages arjunned.

    Thanks for the link :cool: and obviously a +1 for you ;)
     
    TeeJay 44, Oct 30, 2009
    #5
  6. arjunned

    arjunned Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    288
    Messages:
    766
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Only glad to help bro. :D
     
    arjunned, Oct 31, 2009
    #6