If you’re frustrated and annoyed by the continuing problems with AVG please try one of these excellent Antivirus suites. They are every bit as good as AVG and with the advent of AVG 8 they are less bloated and not plagued by the update issues that AVG has been having. I use and recommend either Kaspersky Anti-Virus or Panda Antivirus Pro both are superior products.

If you’re determined to keep using AVG then read on for the solution to the AVG update issue.

Many many people have been plagued by this issue since downloading the free version of AVG 8. The solution is generally one of two things. First disable your windows firewall and try the update. This is a standard troubleshooting technique when ever a software update fails, so keep it in mind.

The next and more effective solution that I’ve found is to go to Tools -> Advanced Settings -> Update and uncheck the box that says “Use DNS update”.

This has resolved the issue for 90% of the installations that I have encountered it on.

If this solved your issue, please