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…