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heather, alias, mike, sidj,,, adaware problem
hello all,, specially heather the 'hill roaming tourist'.
hi guys, if you recall, i mentioned a couple of weeks ago that i was having problems getting adaware updated, it would get to 5% then simply say Error. since then i have re-installed it many times, but i still get the same flipping error,,,,,,,,, its like a boomerang, just keeps coming back. as it stands now, it seems i am 794days out of whack with updates,, which is to naturally be expected after new install. am i missing something, or is it now impossible to use adaware unless one updates to the 'troublesome' 2007 version??? i refuse to put this one on due to the many problems i've heard about it, and the fact that the adaware personell seem to be distancing themselves from it? i dont know at all. any help out there heather?? J |
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heather, alias, mike, sidj,,, adaware problem
jeanette wrote:
hello all,, specially heather the 'hill roaming tourist'. hi guys, if you recall, i mentioned a couple of weeks ago that i was having problems getting adaware updated, it would get to 5% then simply say Error. since then i have re-installed it many times, but i still get the same flipping error,,,,,,,,, its like a boomerang, just keeps coming back. as it stands now, it seems i am 794days out of whack with updates,, which is to naturally be expected after new install. am i missing something, or is it now impossible to use adaware unless one updates to the 'troublesome' 2007 version??? i refuse to put this one on due to the many problems i've heard about it, and the fact that the adaware personell seem to be distancing themselves from it? i dont know at all. any help out there heather?? J I don't have any problems with 2007. Alias |
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heather, alias, mike, sidj,,, adaware problem
Hi Jeanette,
Have you tried Spybot Search and Destroy (Free)? http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html Not a solution but a good alternative. Another one is SuperAntiSpyware (Free version for home users): http://www.superantispyware.com/ Lavasoft is letting people down (see the lifelong free updates issues), so you may be better served looking at these alternatives. Good luck, Zee (the hill roaming "local") "jeanette" wrote in message ... hello all,, specially heather the 'hill roaming tourist'. hi guys, if you recall, i mentioned a couple of weeks ago that i was having problems getting adaware updated, it would get to 5% then simply say Error. since then i have re-installed it many times, but i still get the same flipping error,,,,,,,,, its like a boomerang, just keeps coming back. as it stands now, it seems i am 794days out of whack with updates,, which is to naturally be expected after new install. am i missing something, or is it now impossible to use adaware unless one updates to the 'troublesome' 2007 version??? i refuse to put this one on due to the many problems i've heard about it, and the fact that the adaware personell seem to be distancing themselves from it? i dont know at all. any help out there heather?? J |
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heather, alias, mike, sidj,,, adaware problem
"oops!!" wrote in message ... Hi Jeanette, Have you tried Spybot Search and Destroy (Free)? http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html Not a solution but a good alternative. Another one is SuperAntiSpyware (Free version for home users): http://www.superantispyware.com/ Lavasoft is letting people down (see the lifelong free updates issues), so you may be better served looking at these alternatives. Good luck, Zee (the hill roaming "local") hi oops, (glad to see you too are a hill roamer, you n' heather will have much to talk about....... ha ha.) yes, i already have spybot, and spyblaster, but i guess i have a soft spot for adaware, but the wheels certainly look like they is falling off. i read just now that staff have been fired and others are leaving in droves, sounds like the death knell. (at least for se users.) i read what alias said, and i do hold his/her comment in esteem, but i have also read in lots of other places that contradict. anyhow, i am now basically without adaware as i've unistalled my original and installed and '.exe' i kept, and like i said, it tells me i'm nearly 800days out of the loop............ but still adaware wont let me update. (even the forums are boo-hoo-ing adaware,, they are getting a bad reputation really quick,, but not so much for the update problems, but for the fact that not one adaware representitive has stepped up and explained whats going on.) J |
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heather, alias, mike, sidj,,, adaware problem
Sorry you're having problems Jeanette but it's working OK here as well on
my husbands XP machine and my daughters WinME one. I updated them on Monday morning before doing the weekly maintenance, I use the new version on my machine. Joan jeanette wrote: "oops!!" wrote in message ... Hi Jeanette, Have you tried Spybot Search and Destroy (Free)? http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html Not a solution but a good alternative. Another one is SuperAntiSpyware (Free version for home users): http://www.superantispyware.com/ Lavasoft is letting people down (see the lifelong free updates issues), so you may be better served looking at these alternatives. Good luck, Zee (the hill roaming "local") hi oops, (glad to see you too are a hill roamer, you n' heather will have much to talk about....... ha ha.) yes, i already have spybot, and spyblaster, but i guess i have a soft spot for adaware, but the wheels certainly look like they is falling off. i read just now that staff have been fired and others are leaving in droves, sounds like the death knell. (at least for se users.) i read what alias said, and i do hold his/her comment in esteem, but i have also read in lots of other places that contradict. anyhow, i am now basically without adaware as i've unistalled my original and installed and '.exe' i kept, and like i said, it tells me i'm nearly 800days out of the loop............ but still adaware wont let me update. (even the forums are boo-hoo-ing adaware,, they are getting a bad reputation really quick,, but not so much for the update problems, but for the fact that not one adaware representitive has stepped up and explained whats going on.) J |
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heather, alias, mike, sidj,,, adaware problem
Just another +1 for someone using the 2007 version......I have not had any
problem with it, however, I am running XP. Have you checked any firewall you may have that could be blocking the update process?? Usually, the 5% hang is due to problems at their end. Wish I could help more, but, the firewall thing is all I could think of. Heirloom, old and must go put the foot up "Joan Archer" wrote in message ... Sorry you're having problems Jeanette but it's working OK here as well on my husbands XP machine and my daughters WinME one. I updated them on Monday morning before doing the weekly maintenance, I use the new version on my machine. Joan jeanette wrote: "oops!!" wrote in message ... Hi Jeanette, Have you tried Spybot Search and Destroy (Free)? http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html Not a solution but a good alternative. Another one is SuperAntiSpyware (Free version for home users): http://www.superantispyware.com/ Lavasoft is letting people down (see the lifelong free updates issues), so you may be better served looking at these alternatives. Good luck, Zee (the hill roaming "local") hi oops, (glad to see you too are a hill roamer, you n' heather will have much to talk about....... ha ha.) yes, i already have spybot, and spyblaster, but i guess i have a soft spot for adaware, but the wheels certainly look like they is falling off. i read just now that staff have been fired and others are leaving in droves, sounds like the death knell. (at least for se users.) i read what alias said, and i do hold his/her comment in esteem, but i have also read in lots of other places that contradict. anyhow, i am now basically without adaware as i've unistalled my original and installed and '.exe' i kept, and like i said, it tells me i'm nearly 800days out of the loop............ but still adaware wont let me update. (even the forums are boo-hoo-ing adaware,, they are getting a bad reputation really quick,, but not so much for the update problems, but for the fact that not one adaware representitive has stepped up and explained whats going on.) J |
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heather, alias, mike, sidj,,, adaware problem
One other thing I just noticed..........not sure how you have been
attempting to update (probably through the app itself), but, check out this page of the Lavasoft site: http://www.lavasoft.com/support/securitycenter/blog/ In the upper right corner is a green button, one side is to update 2007 and the other side is for the SE version. Just thought it might be worth a try. Heirloom, old and now the foot is going up "Heirloom" wrote in message ... Just another +1 for someone using the 2007 version......I have not had any problem with it, however, I am running XP. Have you checked any firewall you may have that could be blocking the update process?? Usually, the 5% hang is due to problems at their end. Wish I could help more, but, the firewall thing is all I could think of. Heirloom, old and must go put the foot up "Joan Archer" wrote in message ... Sorry you're having problems Jeanette but it's working OK here as well on my husbands XP machine and my daughters WinME one. I updated them on Monday morning before doing the weekly maintenance, I use the new version on my machine. Joan jeanette wrote: "oops!!" wrote in message ... Hi Jeanette, Have you tried Spybot Search and Destroy (Free)? http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html Not a solution but a good alternative. Another one is SuperAntiSpyware (Free version for home users): http://www.superantispyware.com/ Lavasoft is letting people down (see the lifelong free updates issues), so you may be better served looking at these alternatives. Good luck, Zee (the hill roaming "local") hi oops, (glad to see you too are a hill roamer, you n' heather will have much to talk about....... ha ha.) yes, i already have spybot, and spyblaster, but i guess i have a soft spot for adaware, but the wheels certainly look like they is falling off. i read just now that staff have been fired and others are leaving in droves, sounds like the death knell. (at least for se users.) i read what alias said, and i do hold his/her comment in esteem, but i have also read in lots of other places that contradict. anyhow, i am now basically without adaware as i've unistalled my original and installed and '.exe' i kept, and like i said, it tells me i'm nearly 800days out of the loop............ but still adaware wont let me update. (even the forums are boo-hoo-ing adaware,, they are getting a bad reputation really quick,, but not so much for the update problems, but for the fact that not one adaware representitive has stepped up and explained whats going on.) J |
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heather, alias, mike, sidj,,, adaware problem
Brief flying visit.
Perhaps someone could tell Jeanette that I had exactly the same issue - her in Oz, me in the UK - but it eventually started working again. It is *not* a problem with her installation! The latest on my experience is that I got the 5% problem return - *but only within a virtual machine!* iow I had Ad-aware running and a VM runniong with Ad-aware also running in that. I ran the updater in both and the one on the Host updated okay while the one on the Guest failed at 5%. A little later, however, it resumed working in the VM installation too. An installation identical to the one on the Host apart from actual harware vs. emulated hardware (but in actual fact going through the same hardware - and after all it did work eventually anyway *without my having to change anything!*). I only mention this because people are steering her wrong - still! (not you, H). Mine fixed itself without me changing anything! And it existed and has been cured in multiple installations. Seems to me almost certainly an LS server issue or one that Tiscali.co.uk shared along with Jeanettes Aussie isp. And bare in mind in all the years the build has been out, this has never happened to me before. So mine and hers going simultaneously sounds like an external influence. Right. See ya! Back to boiling water. Apart from the crocks etc *I need a wash!* Shane Heirloom wrote: One other thing I just noticed..........not sure how you have been attempting to update (probably through the app itself), but, check out this page of the Lavasoft site: http://www.lavasoft.com/support/securitycenter/blog/ In the upper right corner is a green button, one side is to update 2007 and the other side is for the SE version. Just thought it might be worth a try. Heirloom, old and now the foot is going up "Heirloom" wrote in message ... Just another +1 for someone using the 2007 version......I have not had any problem with it, however, I am running XP. Have you checked any firewall you may have that could be blocking the update process?? Usually, the 5% hang is due to problems at their end. Wish I could help more, but, the firewall thing is all I could think of. Heirloom, old and must go put the foot up "Joan Archer" wrote in message ... Sorry you're having problems Jeanette but it's working OK here as well on my husbands XP machine and my daughters WinME one. I updated them on Monday morning before doing the weekly maintenance, I use the new version on my machine. Joan jeanette wrote: "oops!!" wrote in message ... Hi Jeanette, Have you tried Spybot Search and Destroy (Free)? http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html Not a solution but a good alternative. Another one is SuperAntiSpyware (Free version for home users): http://www.superantispyware.com/ Lavasoft is letting people down (see the lifelong free updates issues), so you may be better served looking at these alternatives. Good luck, Zee (the hill roaming "local") hi oops, (glad to see you too are a hill roamer, you n' heather will have much to talk about....... ha ha.) yes, i already have spybot, and spyblaster, but i guess i have a soft spot for adaware, but the wheels certainly look like they is falling off. i read just now that staff have been fired and others are leaving in droves, sounds like the death knell. (at least for se users.) i read what alias said, and i do hold his/her comment in esteem, but i have also read in lots of other places that contradict. anyhow, i am now basically without adaware as i've unistalled my original and installed and '.exe' i kept, and like i said, it tells me i'm nearly 800days out of the loop............ but still adaware wont let me update. (even the forums are boo-hoo-ing adaware,, they are getting a bad reputation really quick,, but not so much for the update problems, but for the fact that not one adaware representitive has stepped up and explained whats going on.) J |
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heather, alias, mike, sidj,,, adaware problem
I suppose that answers my question then Shane, you don't have your water
back yet, I asked you earlier in an email I sent to you g Joan Shane wrote: Brief flying visit. snip .. Right. See ya! Back to boiling water. Apart from the crocks etc *I need a wash!* Shane |
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