Okay, SM says it's AVG fault, and AVG says it's SM's fault, and to contact the other for help.

 Smith-Micro did say that the exceptions needed to be set up in AVG to allow communications.

"Most likely, you need to update the exceptions to allow for Poser 10 location. AVG, from what I understand creates rules that are specific to paths. Poser.exe is the application name since Poser 4, so the path has changed, but the application is the same. Contact AVG Support Staff for help in setting up exceptions."

Does this mean anything to anyone here?!?!