Crash from Anti-Virus AVG 8.5 install

[Mattax]

I have tried multiple times to install AVG 8.5 and do the updates and it either hangs during update or completes and says "Invalid binary file error".

I've tried uninstalling and reinstall to no avail.

I've set my BIOS setting back to default and reinstalled AVG 8.5 to no avail.


System is Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2

AMD Atlon 64 X2 Dual 3800+

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Did you try deleting the install file, redownloading it and then reinstalling?

 

[Mattax]

Originally posted by: Chiefcrowe
Did you try deleting the install file, redownloading it and then reinstalling?

Yes, multiple times.

I even did a system restore to get back to AVG 7.5, delete it and then install AVG 8.5. And it does the same thing.

Right now, I am doing Windows update to get the windows side up to date. Currently running Service Pack 3.

 

[Mattax]

I gave up on AVG and installed Norton Internet Security 2009. Now the only issue is sometimes it will not complete downloading virus definitions.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

I'd recommend trying Avira or maybe Nod32

 

[Mattax]

I did some further research and found that my NVidia Firewall drivers were causing the issue. I uninstalled the Nvidia ethernet drivers section (which included the firewall program) using Windows add/remove and reinstalled just the PCI Bridge drivers and all worked great.

So, now I own a 2 year subscription to AVG 8.5, a one year subscription to avira and a one year subscription to Norton which is installed.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

interesting.. thanks for the update. hopefully you have other machines to use those licenses with.

 

[Mattax]

You are welcome. I will have to see if I can find the links to the issue and what led me to discover this fix based on others answers, but I did basically cover it already.

The bad thing is I wanted to not remove all of the Nvidia drivers and only removed the ethernet ones, which caused me to not be able to connect to the internet on reboot.

Thankfully, I had the original disk and it only requested the PCI Bridge drivers.

I have another machine that I have not assembled yet that I can use the AVG 8.5 on.

 

[Mattax]

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?postid=1895971

The above link is to where I discovered the fix. After installing and running Norton it gave me an NSIS error and I googled and found the above link. Read down towards the bottom of the first page and it talks about the NVidia Firewall program causing the issue.

I had mine turned off because I was using AVG, but it does not matter as there is still software from the NVidia Firewall causing the issues.

 

[Mattax]

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=18678

Here's some more on similar issues with the NSIS error.