AVG 8: A .bin file is missing - Update Error

Problem:

AVG is causing mass hysteria. After an update the program will not apply any new updates. I noticed this today and found this forum thread about it. Click here to read it.

Fix:

People are claiming (I have not verified) that if you get a manual update from grisoft, that it will fix the problem. I will check this very soon.

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Burned Keyboard

This was brought in today…Check out this keyboard! I have no idea how long the cigarette was left on this keyboard.
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VolumeChk.dll - Malware

I had a server heavily infected by malware and spyware. After the regular run through of my arsenal of software. I wiped out my hijackthis and went to town. I couldn’t find anything. I had hijackthis.de anaylze the results and everything looked clean.

When I rebooted the server it would try to open up two sites with the urls:

1. f6.cookingluck.com
2. http://us01.xmlsearch.findwhat.com/bin/findwhat.dll?clickthrough&y=67669&x=

So, I posted on bleepingcomputer.com and no one posted anything. I got tired of waiting (that took all the matter of 5 minutes) and started to really examine each file in the hijackthis log. I ran across this entry:

O21 - SSODL: VolumeChk - {64dadcd6-a4df-400c-ac90-6180af4b35fa} - C:\WINDOWS\Installer\{64dadcd6-a4df-400c-ac90-6180af4b35fa}\VolumeChk.dll

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