[Flubflow]

I'm in the process of reinstalling AVG from a new download on one of the desktop PCs which was having the problem. However the Laptop (which was fine) can't get even upates now (a different error - a time out) which means AVG themselves must now be having server problems too so I can't test the reinstall on the desktop pc yet (but at least I'm getting the same time out error as the previously working laptop rather than an instant "update was unsucessful".
Hope you followed that.

Mike: sorry for appearing to hijack your thread but hopefully there will some useful info come out of this.