Re: PLEASE HELP??? Error say WININET.DLL not found...pls read,TIA!!!

Not being an apologist for AVG (whose /free/ version I often recommend as better than nothing) but Norton, McAfee, Kaspersky, NOD32, and just about every other AV app maker all have issued "bad" updates at some point in recent months.
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~PA Bear

The Grimm wrote:
I have to agree with you Robear about making sure your AV is set up to
update and scan daily but we both know the update is what caused this
problem in both free and commercial versions. Given the problem with
recent updates, Grisoft has got to get their colective asses in gear...
they are starting to slip way too much for my liking especially when I
resell their product to my clients.

PA Bear wrote:
> Your installed anti-virus app should be configured to seek and install
> updates automatically, daily, at a time when the machine is usually
> running and connected to the internet. It should also be configured to
> run a full system scan a few minutes after seeking/installing updates,
> also daily. Anything less is simply insufficient these days.
>
> (AVG's had some really buggy updates recently with many False/Positives
> as the result. Hey, s*** happens. Whaddya want for free?)
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org
>
>
> Lucretia1987 wrote:
> > Hi All
> > I also had the same problem occur yesterday (9 Aug) immediately
> > following an AVG update. Hmmmm. Seeing as I do not use IE as a
> > browser and system is locked up tight, I smelt a rat. There are no
> > symptoms of SmitRem infection visible (I have removed it from some
> > other people's PCs).
> > Was unable to copy wininet.dll back from Windows CD, doing that gave
> > some BSOD "checksum" error and machine was U/S.
> > Thankfully I Ghost my machine regularly. Restored wininet.dll from May
> > backup, and Windows booted but everything except Firefox was broken,
> > so AVG, Spybot etc all not working after more reboot.
> > Resorted to resetting CMOS (turn off PC, pull power plug from wall, go
> > drink cup of coffee, come back plug in and boot, LOL) and voila no
> > errors on booting. AVG fired up and began telling me it found a virus
> > in wininet.dll again so I told it to IGNORE and I immediately did a
> > manual update check and there was a PRIORITY UPDATE with today's date
> > so I got it.
> > Everything working fine, and have scanned entire system with AVG,
> > Panda ActiveScan online, Spybot, AdAware they find no nasties. Am off
> > to try TrendMicro Housecall just in case.
> > It does appear to me that the 9-Aug-2006 update to AVG may have BEEN
> > BUGGY???
> > :-|
> > Luc
> >
> > The Grimm wrote:
> > > Hello All,
> > >
> > > I came across this same problem this morning. AVG found
> > > wininet.dll to be infected and removed it from the System32
> > > directory. Other than that, both pc checked out to be clean so I
> > > suspect that this was either a false positive or there is some
> > > newer bug going around that no one has picked up on yet.

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