I fired up Kristen’s laptop which has AVG on it and discovered that it hadn’t actually updated the virus definitions for a month as for some weird reason I had it set to update at 6.30 am! Seeing as though the laptop is not actually on then it hadn’t updated. A quick search in google and I realised that it is possible to run the AVG auto update by running “c:\program files\grisoft\avg6 \avginet.exe” /norm
Bundle this with sleep.exe saved into the windows directory, pop it into the startup folder and as the laptop is permanently connected to the internet, updates every time the machine is booted up (a bit of a pain if this is more than once a day but the pain is better than the pain of a virus infection)
The batch file contains the following two lines:-
sleep 60
“c:\program files\grisoft\avg6\avginet” /norm
A shortcut is created to this batch file, with the shortcut set to run minimised and close on exit.
This could be modified to detect for a network connection first (for dialup users) but not at 7.30 in the morning. If this is needed – remind me!
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I have tried this with /SCHED and (I believe) it does the same thing without requiring any user interaction. (ie. no annoying OK boxes).
can you make one to run and scan your computer and how would you do it??? thanks