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I'm getting the same problem Undervalued! Even with it off it won't finish the upddate. Does the blue bar get about 90% across and then the error message appears?

Yes, that is exactly what happens to me to

Edit: After reading polar k's post it works again, ty sir!

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01-28-2008 , 08:43 AM

#27

polar k

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Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 50

To specify:

To turn off AVG you need to do more than close it, right-click-close just closes the control center, AVG is still running...

Double click AVG, click 'resident shield' and un-check 'turn on AVG resident shield protection', then try again.

HOWEVER (sorry, capitals, but important)

I would really suggest running the update as I mentioned in my previous post as that probably fixes the problem without having to disable AVG and without any further problems... Probably...

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01-28-2008 , 09:35 AM

#28

ranka

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 7,496

5 minutes ago got last update from AVG. Looks like it was the fix and stars running ok again.

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01-28-2008 , 09:53 AM

#29

PokerStars Development

adept

Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 760

If anyone is interested in comparing antivirus products, you might find this site helpful:

http://www.av-comparatives.org/

There is also a 2007 summary here:

http://www.av-comparatives.org/seite...ummary2007.pdf

My personal choice is Eset Smart Security, which I can't recommend highly enough.

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01-28-2008 , 10:36 AM

#30

Jonathan

old hand

Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,711

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Originally Posted by chube

I am having the same problem.

Me too. But I did not update my AVG software. I don't think
its got anything to do with AVG.

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01-28-2008 , 10:45 AM

#31

Jonathan

old hand

Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,711

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jonathan

Me too. But I did not update my AVG software. I don't think
its got anything to do with AVG.

After reading Juan's note, guess it does.

Thanks all for the info.

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01-28-2008 , 11:52 AM

#32

sweeng8

adept

Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1,192

All you need to do it update AVG. You wont have a problem. Whatever was wrong seems to have been fixed

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01-28-2008 , 01:07 PM

#33

Dsquarednl

grinder

Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 662

Quote:

Originally Posted by ranka

5 minutes ago got last update from AVG. Looks like it was the fix and stars running ok again.

Same here. That was pretty fast

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06-16-2010 , 02:34 PM

#34

Ontario_Tory

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,323

what an unusual bump...

OT

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06-16-2010 , 02:41 PM

#35

FutureInsights

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 4,509

HUH, had me going for a second (was playing on Carbon this morn though).

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06-16-2010 , 08:50 PM

#36

Bobo Fett

Carpe Diem

Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 56,895

Quote:

Originally Posted by corrine89

all avg, mcafee norton are useless... the only one that makes a difference is kaspersky in my opinion....

OP will be very grateful for your answer; he's been waiting for it for almost 2 1/2 years. Now he can finally post again!

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06-16-2010 , 08:58 PM

#37

Synergistic Explosions

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Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 4,170

This is like cyber terrorism.

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06-16-2010 , 09:02 PM

#38

mtPockets

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Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 71

I don't have Stars on my new computer. If anybody has the time, I'm interested in what NoVirusThanks shows on the pokerstars.exe file. Upload it at http://scanner.novirusthanks.org and post the results here.

From experience, AVG and Norton have the most false positives.

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06-17-2010 , 12:59 AM

#39

Josem

human chemical weapon

Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 18,189

I think the link from the poster who bumped the thread is dodgy, and that this was a malicious spam link to spread virus.

Kaspersky is available for download from http://www.kaspersky.com/ and shouldn't be downloaded from the link provided by that poster.

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06-17-2010 , 04:56 PM

#40

mtPockets

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Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 71

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Originally Posted by Josem

I think the link from the poster who bumped the thread is dodgy, and that this was a malicious spam link to spread virus

NoVirusThanks is practically the global safeguard for the Torrent community. It checks the file against more than a dozen antiviruses, and, if selected, uploads the results anonymously to virus tracking hubs.

For the sake of this thread, I'm downloading P* again and will post the results.

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06-17-2010 , 05:06 PM

#41

mtPockets

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Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 71

File Info

Report date: 2010-06-17 23:04:34 (GMT 1)
File name: PokerStars.exe
File size: 5393240 bytes
MD5 Hash: 2ea78303d77464f490f0ff1d5240a41b
SHA1 Hash: a298e7a15fa3352efb28fff0ede3d8a5cf875910
Detection rate: 0 on 16 (0%)
Status: CLEAN

Detections

a-squared -
Avast -
AVG -
Avira AntiVir -
BitDefender -
ClamAV -
Comodo -
Dr.Web -
F-PROT6 -
G-Data -
Ikarus T3 -
Kaspersky -
NOD32 -
Panda -
TrendMicro -
VBA32 -

Scan report generated by
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