[Virtualacorn-list] End of Microsoft support for Windows XP

[Mike Hobbs]

In message <C7791AA6D70A48BEB4DB1CE81C94E091 at philipsdesktop>
          "T.O.M.S." <admin at toms12.plus.com> wrote:

> On Tue Apr 1 23:43:26 BST 2014, Mike Hobbs mike at greengenie.plus.com
> sayeth:

>           "T.O.M.S." <admin at toms12.plus.com> wrote:
>>> We're continuing to use the last-available *2012*
>>> version of  AVG Free (v2012.0.2197 on
>>> http://www.filehippo.com/download_avg_antivirus_32/12831/)
>>This version appears not to be available - "File not found".
>> So has anyone got a copy of the 2012 AVG distribution?

> I'm sorry to hear of this hiccup Mike. All 4 of our machines take us
> straight to the link, so I wonder if it's a browser thing? We're using
> Internet Explorer and Google Chrome, but I'll get Alex to investigate
> others.

> In the meantime, if the stopper is repeatable, can I suggest you go to
> FileHippo's home page and then step through the various sub-pages to
> find it from there.

I've tried Firefox, Chrome and NetSurf. All end up "File not found".
I've also tried to go to the home url and drill down but you can't
because they are only offering download of AVG 2014.
Searching the AVG site for partial string matches on the file
name only return "We are sorry, we didn't found anything."
(note the grammatical error, too).

I thought perhaps AVG was intercepting the traffic to check
it for spyware but I've disabled the link scanning and it still fails.
In any case, the intended recipient machine has had AVG removed.
This is the target URL of the download button:
<http://www.filehippo.com/download_avg_antivirus_32/download/4255ca65610d712f57e2e0f364df6ff4/>  but it ends up here:
<http://af-download.avg.com/filedir/inst/avg_free_x86_all_2012_2197a5126.exe>
and that server is returning the not found text. Its not even a well-
formed html page for a 404 response. So the referenced object
simply does not exist on the server. I've watched the http fetching
with WireShark.  In fact, its not the file that does not exist, the
directory 'filedir' onwards does not exist and the server URL on its
own returns "Access Denied".


-- 
Mike Hobbs