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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: julevine on November 20, 2012, 12:01:37 AM
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I noticed that i had downloaded the vps_32-95e.vpx file update when updating signatures
i wanted to know what is this file and what is it for
thanks you
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can avast team answer this for me Ive been waiting days
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Possible emergency update? had this yesterday. Was problems with update servers
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from the name i guess it is a virus signature update
http://www.avast.com/en-us/virus-update-history
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i downloaded it on the 19 th but now it changed again today now it named vps_32-960.vpx it size is 88.6Mb
it is in the setup folder
i was just curious what this file was
thanks
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That looks like a full VPS package and not the daily update. Did Avast download that by itself ?
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on the 19th i noticed it when i was updating sigs it took a while today i did not notice
so i guest it the full signatures package before unpacked
correct me if i'm wrong
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That is unusual as the VPS is normally a matter of Kbytes
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can you find out what the file is for me then reply
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[General]
Latest_mirror_version=1.0.0.0
Files=736
It was one of the standalone virus data base updates. http://159.253.143.37/iavs5x/mirror.def
This is the latest available today
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so if i understand correctly its the whole virus database in a a packed state
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Yep that is why it was so large, although why Avast downloaded it I have no idea
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thank you so much
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It might be worth doing a repair if it continues to do this as Avast appears to be under the impression it is way out of date
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it not out of date i have it all updated i update it every day