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Offline DavidR

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Re: FTP site to down load updates
« Reply #15 on: May 05, 2011, 07:17:06 PM »
Yes but what is the current version included in the vpsupd.exe (once installed) that you downloaded and when was it downloaded.

Without that we can't say if it is a case of it hasn't been updated daily or if you downloaded it just before update, in which case it could be two days old against the latest auto update VPS version currently 110505-1, released two hours ago.
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Re: FTP site to down load updates
« Reply #16 on: May 05, 2011, 07:24:24 PM »
version that I installed was 6.0.1091 -- the current version of virus definition is 110419-0 of that install. I have done a manual update -- still shows 110419-0 if I do a reboot the version will change to todays release of virus update.

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Re: FTP site to down load updates
« Reply #17 on: May 05, 2011, 07:42:43 PM »
OK, in this instance you aren't actually downloading the virus database but the program installation file and that is likely to have a much older VPS version. The file we are talking about 'daily' update is vpsupd.exe.

- Avast! Manual Virus Definitions Update Download - avast! Virus Definitions Update - Manual Download VPS Update (virus definitions, vpsupd.exe, approx 39.5MB). - Save the file to your hard disk, locate where you saved it and double click it and that should carry out the virus definitions update.

Having downloaded and installed the latest program version you need to bring the virus definitions up to date, by downloading the vpsupd.exe and running that file, which brings the off-line systems up to date. That you are going to have to do periodically to keep the virus definitions on the off-line systems up to date..

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Re: FTP site to down load updates
« Reply #18 on: May 06, 2011, 12:59:40 PM »
Dave

That is the file that I have been using

Here's an example of what I'm seeing

Note theres are taken after I did an update today.

1st screen shot after the update
2nd screen shot after a reboot

Note the difference


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Re: FTP site to down load updates
« Reply #19 on: May 06, 2011, 03:02:22 PM »
Looks like the avastUI isn't fully refreshed to show the complete updates in the vpsupd.exe file as it isn't possible to subsequently get an incremental update for an off-line system.

So this looks like a possible bug in reporting what version is the latest in the UI when using the vpsupd.exe. Which would be 5 hours or more later depending on your time zone in Canada.

However, your images don't show the wildly different dates that you mentioned but one single VPS increment on the same day.

version that I installed was 6.0.1091 -- the current version of virus definition is 110419-0 of that install. I have done a manual update -- still shows 110419-0 if I do a reboot the version will change to todays release of virus update.

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It also depends on when you download the version as I believe the release time is based on the European Time Zone. For me the incremental 110506-0 was released 06/05/2011 11:52:20.


But your images have only served to confuse me further (easily done). If these images are from one of your off-line systems, then I don't see how it can report an last update attempt as a manual update would be pointless. So presumably this is an auto update attempt which should fail as no connection is present and should show a red update failure pop-up.

These off-line systems should have the Updates for virus definitions and program set to Manual and you should set the avastUI, Settings, Status Bar, monitoring to reflect this so you don't get told they are switched off.
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Re: FTP site to down load updates
« Reply #20 on: May 06, 2011, 03:36:06 PM »
Dave: The large date difference was to the fact that I had done a refresh down load of the pgm to ensure I had the most current version of the pgm - then I did a manual update of the data base - the version of the current protection did not change until I had done the reboot  --- BUG

This system is offline.

I can reproduce the same by uninstalling Avast and doing a reinstall - manual update of data base  - take a snap shot before and after the reboot.


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Re: FTP site to down load updates
« Reply #21 on: May 06, 2011, 04:40:55 PM »
As I said you will get a bigger difference when doing a manual program update as that isn't as critical to get the very latest VPS but to get the latest program version.

A program update should always be followed by a reboot, so anything before that I feel isn't really going to be 100% accurate.

Why this happens in the case of the manual update of the VPS I don't know, but I guess it requires the UI to be refreshed, bug I don't know.
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