No, you don’t understand what i’m telling you.
The one computer thats online updates its signatures incrimentally by few KB’s each time. The signature file is 17MB but its updated by few KB’s each time. Now you copy that 400.vps file and transfer it to other offline computers using lets say USB key.
You don’t download those 17MB, you just copy the 17MB 400.vps file localy from DATA folder. It doesn’t matter even if you have 16k net connection since you don’t download anything.
Yes, but aren’t we waiting confirmation on what files are need to do this without any problem, whilst it might work for you in a virtual environment.
avast installations are somehow linked to hard disk volume aren’t they so shifting this to another system could this potentially circumvent continuing to get updates on an expired license (not that this should be a problem with a home version) ??
I don’t know so hopefully we will get some input from one of the Alwil team.
You’re just transfering virus database, not license or any other file. avast! showed updated date so i assume it properly detected the new signature file.
Update:
Well I fired up my old system (not on a network) and the Windows Security Center (WSC) reported it out of date. I copied the 400.vps and clnr0.dll files to a USB stick and transferred them to the …\avast4\Data folder (having disabled the self-defence module first).
After a reboot the WSC now reports the VPS correctly as the one transferred.
i never have had any problem and i am on dialup.
now my friends avast program is doing the same thing. it was working now it is not downloading the updates. (I am going soon to have a look at it for her)
y not try and reinstall avast and start again. it may take awhile to update to current iavs at first then if done regularly you should have no problems
interesting but did you know that on some of those pc mag cds there are updates to avg and i think avast too. so why cant there be a offline update. like on the cds it would make sense you know. Avg and avast are very similar so there could be a manual update
i think it would be easy to find the iavs files and copy them. you could also keep an eye on my other post for more help
Well, they exist indeed…
Download the update here: http://files.avast.com/iavs4pro/vpsupd.exe