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Offline 1lluminate

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Update of the virus definitions
« on: August 28, 2020, 10:15:20 AM »
Hello everyone,

can it be that hardly an update of the virus definitions has been distributed in the last 2-3 days? On the 26th and 27th of August I only believe one or two Updates in the whole day. I now press "check for updates" almost every 2-3 hours. Is there a special reason why few updates are currently being distributed?

Many greetings, David

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Re: Update of the virus definitions
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2020, 10:51:40 AM »
What are your Virus Definition Update settings especially do you have the Enable Streaming updated enabled ?

The streaming updates keep them up to date every few minutes until the next VPS update is updated, so you are covered.

That said I'm not seeing this 2-3 day delay.
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Re: Update of the virus definitions
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2020, 11:12:09 AM »
What are your Virus Definition Update settings especially do you have the Enable Streaming updated enabled ?

The streaming updates keep them up to date every few minutes until the next VPS update is updated, so you are covered.

That said I'm not seeing this 2-3 day delay.

Hello DavidR, yes i have streaming update enabled and i looked in the folder on my Computer, now i understand how it works. Thank you!  :)

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Re: Update of the virus definitions
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2020, 11:13:56 AM »
You're welcome.
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