AVG server down?

[John Corliss]

I'm unable to access the AVG home page or download anything from their
server. Is anybody else having this problem?

 

[CalamityKen]

I'm unable to access the AVG home page or download anything from their
server. Is anybody else having this problem?

No problems here.

 

[c_e]

No problems here.

or here

 

[Dan Rather]

You have to be patient right now. They are being hit hard with
requests for updates. I am on a cable connection and it took 4 tries
before I got through.

 

[DC]

You have to be patient right now. They are being hit hard with
requests for updates. I am on a cable connection and it took 4 tries
before I got through.

You have to wonder if the linux ftp sites are being as equally hard hit
-- but for .iso downloads. };O)

 

[donutbandit]

You have to wonder if the linux ftp sites are being as equally hard hit
-- but for .iso downloads. };O)

I would say "yes." I have been trying to download MandrakeMove for several
days now. Have tried many different mirrors and FTP servers, and can almost
never connect. When I do, I get maybe 50 megs or so, and lose the
connection. Haven't been having problems downloading anything else.

 

[John Corliss]

You have to be patient right now. They are being hit hard with
requests for updates. I am on a cable connection and it took 4 tries
before I got through.

Thanks everybody for replying. I had set up my friend's new computer
last night (used a miserably slow 9 pin serial null modem cable and
the XP "File and Settings Transfer Wizard" to get everything over from
his old computer to his new) and set up AVG on his system. What an
unfortunate coincidence that their server would be offline when I went
to download the initial signature update. At any rate, I just
succeeded in updating my copy, then called my friend and ran him
through getting the update for his. All is well.

Thanks again.

 

[Dan Rather]

Reply:

I am recieving about 4 emails with the MyDoom attachment every hour. I
called my cable company and they said they are trying to block servers
where the emails are reported to have come from. Nothing is apparently
working, just the delete key. I have never seen anything like this. I
wonder if this is going to be some 13 year old kid responsible for
this?

 

[John Corliss]

Reply:

I am recieving about 4 emails with the MyDoom attachment every hour. I
called my cable company and they said they are trying to block servers
where the emails are reported to have come from. Nothing is apparently
working, just the delete key. I have never seen anything like this. I
wonder if this is going to be some 13 year old kid responsible for
this?

Heh heh. Since having my ISP change my user ID, I get *no* spam. I
highly recommend that trick. Also, don't have a website that makes
that user ID public in the address. But the MyDoom virus and
corresponding requests for AVG signature updates may be what caused
the AVG server to shut down temporarily.

 

[Andy Mabbett]

Heh heh. Since having my ISP change my user ID, I get *no* spam.

No; you just have it sent to someone else, instead.

Have you got permission from the owner of secrewspam.to, yet?

 

[Andy Mabbett]

I am recieving about 4 emails with the MyDoom attachment every hour. I
called my cable company and they said they are trying to block servers
where the emails are reported to have come from.

I'm hardly receiving any - but I ma getting hundreds (literally) of
bounce messages to non- existent addresses at this domain, from clueless
postmasters (hello, (e-mail address removed) !), telling me that "my" e-mail
can't be forwarded because it has a virus.

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/35202.html> refers.

 

[Richard Steven Hack]

I'm hardly receiving any - but I ma getting hundreds (literally) of
bounce messages to non- existent addresses at this domain, from clueless
postmasters (hello, (e-mail address removed) !), telling me that "my" e-mail
can't be forwarded because it has a virus.

Yes, I had that problem with my spam trap account at Prontomail. I
was getting tons of Swen crap, and I emailed support and said why
don't you just clobber this crap, it's obviously not coming from "Mail
Support" or "Microsoft" or whatever. They said half of it was a
"notifier" I had set up (which may or may not be true, I can't
remember doing that) - and the rest was returned email indicating I
had Swen on my system. I told them I definitely did NOT have Swen on
my system. Just to be totally sure, I downloaded a Swen removal tool
and had it scan again, even though AVG does a full scan every night.
Nothing, as I expected.

They have idiots in these jobs.