I have AVG 8.0 installed on my home computers. Last night I saw and exclamation mark on the AVG icon in the system tray. I opened to the console and saw a message under update manager “.bin file missing”.
Attempts to update the system failed giving the same error. Below are the steps I took to resolve the problem…
- Go the AVG update site here.
- Download all the files there except the one IAVI: / 1616 to a folder. This is the source of the problem as something is wrong with this .bin file. When you use automatic update in AVG, this file tries to download and install but fails giving the “.bin file missing” error.
- Once you have completed downloading the files to a folder, from the AVG console go to tools\update from Directory. Select the folder you downloaded the files to then click ok.
- The updates should go through and you should not receive the error.
AVG will need to remove this .bin file from the updates list.
