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British Expats (https://britishexpats.com/forum/)

- Australia (https://britishexpats.com/forum/australia-54/)

- - Skype (https://britishexpats.com/forum/australia-54/skype-677471/)

ozzieeagle

Jul 20th 2010 3:44 pm

Re: Skype

If Paddyo's suggestion doesnt work, I would delete AVG and install Avast in a situation like this, and vice versa if Avast played up.

http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download

Download Avast.... turn off modem, uninstall AVG, install Avast, turn modem back on.

scrubbedexpat020

Jul 20th 2010 4:29 pm

Re: Skype

Quote:

Originally Posted by ozzieeagle (Post 8716656)

Concur with Avast.

Use AVG removal tool to get rid of it http://www.avg.com/ww-en/download-tools.

Ian

chutney mary

Jul 20th 2010 7:40 pm

Re: Skype

It's fixed. It was just a simple case of changing the exceptions in AVG firewall. Strange that it should suddenly stop Skype from working though? I don't know anything about computers, so with all of your help I was able to resolve the problem. Well done Ex Pats.:thumbup:

chutney mary

Jul 20th 2010 11:24 pm

Re: Skype

It worked - thanks for your help.

Coryate

Jul 21st 2010 8:59 am

Re: Skype

Quote:

Originally Posted by chutney mary (Post 8716613)

Yippee, think we have got there. It is the AVG firewall that is causing the problem. If I turn it off it works. But then I'm not protected? Not sure what to do about that, but at least I know what is causing it. Thanks to all you kind people who helped.

Having done 6 yrs on an ISP helldesk, I used to get the same question about Skype or email suddenly not working 2-3 times a day.
It was usually the firewall, turn it off and turn it back on usually fixed it, nortons was the main offender.

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