Something about update.My ISP can't give me the chance to update

[zhexuezhuzi]

Thank you to read this .
I come from China .I have got the avast with GUI today.
But I can't update because my ISP can not provide the service of  surfing  foreign sites if I do not pay more.
Yes,I can ask proxy for help.But it is difficult to find one in China .
Now I come here with the help of http://proxy.ipcn.org/ .

I want to know  how to download the files that I can update the avast with these files.Who can give me a link or tell me how to get it.I have go to http://www.avast.com,but I can not find that I need(May be I can't find it because my poor English……)

Thank you .

[DavidR]

avast! VPS Update - Manual Download Download to your Hard Disk and just double click it and it will update the signatures (it is quite a large download).
- For updating an off-line systems, download using a system with internet connection, save the file to a CD or USB drive and transfer it to the off-line system and run it to update the VPS signatures file.

Though if your ISP doesn't allow surfing foreign sights I don't know if you would be able to reach that either as it too would be classed as foreign. I assume you could via the proxy.ipcn.com that you came here.

Your English is fine.

[zhexuezhuzi]

avast! VPS Update - Manual Download Download to your Hard Disk and just double click it and it will update the signatures (it is quite a large download).
- For updating an off-line systems, download using a system with internet connection, save the file to a CD or USB drive and transfer it to the off-line system and run it to update the VPS signatures file.

Though if your ISP doesn't allow surfing foreign sights I don't know if you would be able to reach that either as it too would be classed as foreign. I assume you could via the proxy.ipcn.com that you came here.

Your English is fine.

Thank you for your reply.
But I am using Ubuntu8.04……

[pupusse]

I 'm not sure it will work but it could be a solution :

Under Ubuntu , try to execute the updater (*.exe) with a windows emulator ( wine for example ) and copy the extracted files to proper folder ( /home/.avast or /root/.avast....)

Anyway , try to see if it is possible to find a public ftp server of avast . It might help.

[DavidR]

Thank you for your reply.
But I am using Ubuntu8.04……

Oops I didn't notice the forum, just the looking at the Subject.

[Lisandro]

If your ISP does not allow to reach foreign servers, the only way I can see is asking if a particular server of avast is on China (witch I really don't think that exists).
Can you download the update here? http://files.avast.com/iavs4pro/vpsupd.exe

[zilog]

Hallo,
for present (and for future probably too) versions of Linux avast, you need the 400.vps file. You can download this particular file from http://files.avast.com/files/latest.400.vps.
When there's some restriction, but you have a proxy that can go around them, just set up this proxy in your browser, or in your environment (for wget/Lynx/Links/Elinks: export http_proxy=http://some.proxy.somewhere:port), and download the file.

Anyway, there's a script in the libavastengine package, called avastvpsreload.sh, which accepts proxiesas well (using NetAcc=2 in /etc/avastvpsupdate.conf, proxy migh be specified there, or also in the header of the script). Note that update is just about getting a particular file from particular URL, so there are always many workaround possible (redirectors, anonymizers, anonymous proxies...).

regards
pc