My AVG free won't update its spyware or virus databases

ita, are you using AVG 7 or 8? They may have stopped issuing updates for 7. Updates on 8 work for me. Other than that, got nothing, besides doing a reinstall.

I think O is right. You need to upgrade to v8.

Avast! is free, and works pretty well.

It's 8--I even re-downloaded and re-installed. I ended up downloading the update files manually and updating them that way, but that's no long term solution.

Is anyone here using Tivo with an interior antenna and an analog television? I recently set up a new HDTV in my office, where I don't have cable, and with the $25 Phillips HDTV antenna, the picture on the digital channels is amazing and I get at least as many as on basic cable. I am thinking about getting a Series 3/HD Tivo and booting Comcast. (Yes, I am trying to save money without actually giving up anything.)

Great. My PC is riddled with viruses that AVG can't get rid of. Most irritating is Cryptor which lives in /resycled/ntldr.com. But there are more, and other than moving them to the vault repeatedly (it keeps getting recreated) I can't get any other action to take, including removing the threat.

And now Windows Defender won't update either...

ita, we have ben having great success with MBAM (Malwarebytes Anti Malware) at work for systems of varying quality and usage by our stores around the country.

Review: [link]

Main Website: [link]

I'll give that a try, DCJ.

I downloaded Avast and ran a boot scan. It found something else, and seems to have cleaned that, but the Cryptor remains, not even found by Avast.

A quick google found several examples where Malwarebytes successfully removed Cryptor specifically.

I have a question about all my technology. I love, love, love Apple, but they update so frequently that my version of whatever tech seems to become semi-obsolete before I can even consider spending money on a replacement. I have an iBook G4 running some OS X large jungle cat thingy (Panther? Maybe? 10.3.9, anyway), and it seems like applications have given up on making updates for my lagging-behind-the-times software. I bought this computer in August of 2004, and the hard drive died an abrupt death two years ago this month, so I bought a replacement. The new hard drive has been refusing to recognize my iPod mini (v. 1 - pink, of course) since that first day of coming home again. I was able to get my songs off it, but it hasn't recognized when the iPod has been plugged in since then, so I haven't been able to synch my iPod in two years (which I'm only now realizing. Wow. Long time.). Firefox said the other day that they would no longer do updates for the version I'm running, and I should upgrade to Firefox 3, but that would require an update to my OSX, which I didn't really feel like doing. But now I can't even buy eBooks, because they're all, like, "update your Adobe player, loser!" And Adobe is all, "why aren't you running a more recent OSX?? We totally can't help you. Sucks to be you." And I'm getting really frustrated. This computer still runs perfectly fine, though rather slowly at times, but I'm afraid of my new-ish hard drive dying a flaming death within the next year, since the computer guys were all telling me they only last about three years or so. And I saw that proven with my own eyes.

Tell me the truth. I am technologically backwards and should look into investing into some fresher technology or something, shouldn't I, even though I'd rather save money for LASIK, and traveling, and an iPhone? Because even my mom, who still enjoys the hunt and peck method of computer interaction, has a computer and iPod that are more recent than mine? So she could read an iBook on her computer and listen to "Circus" on her iPod if she wanted to, but I can't?