[Caine]

I have the following def's installed: SE1R51 21.06.2005, and the following core app installed: 1.06r1 Personal. When I try checking for updates it says:

New definitions available
Build SE1R52 30.06.2005; Date 30.06.2005
Download and install this file?

When it tries to retrieve the update, it freezes at 5% and the following message appears:

The downloaded definitions file could not be read, please update again

How could I fix this? Any help is much appreciated.

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I had the same problem also.
I just went and got the defs manually Click Here.

Let's hope that there isn't the same problem with the next definitions.

- Rawe

[Rawe]

I had the same problem also.
I just went and got the defs manually Click Here.

Let's hope that there isn't the same problem with the next definitions.

- Rawe

[Rawe]

Actually Andy, I did try that trick before downloading manually.
Still I got the same error..

- Rawe

[Rawe]

Well I didn't try renaming but deleting..

[Caine]

Thanks to both Andy and Rawe for the suggestions.

I decided to give the renaming a whirl first before I used the manual dl (just like you did yourself Rawe), and I followed Andys advice to rename to defs.ref.old, and after the error message popped up I tried the update and it worked!

One final question however, I looked in C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Ad-Aware SE Personal to see if the renamed defs.ref.old file was still there, and needed to be deleted. It's gone though , and now the regular defs.ref file is there instead. Was the renamed file overwritten by the current one, and if not have I done something wrong?

[Rawe]

I don't know about that,
but it can't do any harm anyways if you have the current defs file in use for Ad-aware.
Usually defs.ref.old still stays at teh C:\Program Files\Lavasoft - folder after getting the latest one but I don't know then.
Maybe Lavasoft just had some problem with them.

- Rawe