Is there a FTP site that I can down load all the updates from other that the standard HTTP site?
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Larry
No, sorry.
May be soooooooooon
Just a thought. Would be nice.
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Larry
Why would you prefer FTP…??
Just curious. 
asyn
Asyn – I’ll see if I can explain. I have 3 systems at home 1 is connected to the internet the other 2 are not (IP have been blocked for internet connection). If there was a FTP site I could use a batch program to download the new update automatically (at present now I have to do this manually) and I have already created a batch program to run in the job scheduler on the 2 system that are not connected to the internet to update the virus definitions daily. Hope that helps.
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Larry
Larry, thanks for your reply. 
asyn
Asyn: Do you know how often the manual down loads are updated. They don’t seem to be current from the automatic updates?
While were on the subject of manual updates – why when the update is done manually doesn’t the current information under MAINTENACE – Update – Current version: change (show the old version of the definition)? The only way I have found to have this info updated is a reboot.
BUG?
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Larry
cheyenne_747, are you using the latest version of avast program?
This seems to be an old GUI sync problem…
Why can’t you download vpsupd.exe from web (e.g. using wget) - that’s basically the same as the FTP operation, if there was any FTP.
Yes version 6.0.1091
Will have a look at it.
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Larry
Sorry, don’t know what you mean…?
He means that the full vpsupd.exe doesn’t contain up to the minute VPS version.
@ cheyenne_747
I don’t believe they update it after every incremental virus definitions update; how old is the one you downloaded (and when did you download) ?
Ahh, ok. Thanks, Dave…!
vpsupd.exe gets updated once a day.
Thanks Dave - you are right.
What about the current vesion not being updated?
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Larry
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.
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.
Larry
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…
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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Larry
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.
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.