{"id":111,"date":"2008-10-30T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aunspach.com\/dan\/solution%e2%80%9cinvalid-update-control-ctf-file%e2%80%9d-when-updating-avg-anti-virus-8-0\/"},"modified":"2008-10-30T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T15:40:00","slug":"solution%e2%80%9cinvalid-update-control-ctf-file%e2%80%9d-when-updating-avg-anti-virus-8-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aunspach.com\/dan\/solution%e2%80%9cinvalid-update-control-ctf-file%e2%80%9d-when-updating-avg-anti-virus-8-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Solution:\u201cInvalid Update Control CTF File\u201d When Updating AVG Anti-Virus 8.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/error-invalid-update-control-ctf-file-when-updating-avg-anti-virus-80\/\">This solution was posted to the Winhelponline Blog<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/freeforum.avg.com\/read.php?12,146562,146565#msg-146565\" target=\"_blank\" modo=\"false\">AVG forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It works, and really saved me a lot of time and hassle.  Thank you, <a title=\"Posts by Ramesh Srinivasan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/\">Ramesh Srinivasan<\/a>, wherever you are!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>September 10th, 2008 \u2022 by <a title=\"Posts by Ramesh Srinivasan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/\">Ramesh Srinivasan<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>When updating AVG 8.0 today, I received the error &#8220;Invalid Update Control CTF<br \/>File&#8221;. The error could be fixed easily using the solution posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/freeforum.avg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">AVG Forum<\/a>.<br \/>From <a href=\"http:\/\/freeforum.avg.com\/read.php?12,146562,146565#msg-146565\" target=\"_blank\" modo=\"false\">AVG forum<\/a>:<br \/>You need to rename\/remove the CTF<br \/>temp files in C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Application<br \/>Data\\Avg8\\update\\download\u2026. Dont delete all the .bin files in there unless you<br \/>want to re-run all updates since your original installation (reinstallation<br \/>seems to cause a problem in IEs Link Scanner which causes IE to Crash). Only<br \/>rename\/remove the avginfo files that end with .ctf.<br \/>There were two .CTF files<br \/>(avginfoavi.ctf and avginfowin.ctf) in that folder, and deleting them fixed the<br \/>problem indeed.<br \/>Note: The Application Data folder is hidden by default. You<br \/>need to enable Windows Explorer to show hidden files in order to view the<br \/>Application Data folder. Alternately, type the above folder path in the Start,<br \/>Run dialog and press {ENTER} to launch the folder.<br \/>Windows Vista users:<br \/>Delete the .CTF files from the following<br \/>folder:<br \/>C:\\ProgramData\\avg8\\update\\download<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This solution was posted to the Winhelponline Blog and the AVG forum. It works, and really saved me a lot of time and hassle. Thank you, Ramesh Srinivasan, wherever you are! September 10th, 2008 \u2022 by Ramesh Srinivasan When updating &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/aunspach.com\/dan\/solution%e2%80%9cinvalid-update-control-ctf-file%e2%80%9d-when-updating-avg-anti-virus-8-0\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Bp5L-1N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aunspach.com\/dan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aunspach.com\/dan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aunspach.com\/dan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aunspach.com\/dan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aunspach.com\/dan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/aunspach.com\/dan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aunspach.com\/dan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aunspach.com\/dan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aunspach.com\/dan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}