I know this has been covered under other forums and I’m rather surprised I have not seen any other post on this site being the company ADMN networks with that version should be the most affected by this error https://blog.avast.com/2011/04/11/false-positive-issue-with-virus-defs-110411-1/. It wasted 4 hours of my time today until I finally found that the VPS version was corrupt and creating false positives, not to mention me shutting down much of my network in an attempt to isolate and contain the problem. I realize that mistakes happen, errors occur, etc, I just hope this is not a problem that occurs with any regularity, I also think the Avast should have been a bit more proactive in getting out the error out via e-mail heck even a big statement on the front page would have been useful, much better than some dang blog post.
How do you manually update the VPS on the server via the console?
good question, I’d like to know myself, I can push an update’s to clients easily but how the mirror itself is updated I was not able to find, I just hope it happens tonight.
I need more than hope. I have over 250 clients on a corrupt VPS.
I hear ya, dont have 250 just 60 :(… I briefly scanned through the ADNM documentation and was not able to find what I was looking for, going to give it another shot tonight, in the mean time I hope someone here may be able to answer the question. Might be to much to ask but you’d think Avast would have tech reps monitoring these forums especially right now in an effort to solve all the problems there error caused, not seeing to this point ???
It’s not run from ADNM, but if you run mirror.exe on the server, typically found in “C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Management Tools\mirror”, it will download the latest updates to the AMS server, then clients can get the updates.
Thanks for the reply, mine already updated automatically but it’s good to know how that is done. So I guess the next question to answer is how often is the mirror updated? is that set in the ADNM console?
In ADNM–>Settings–>Mirroring, there is an option for how often to sync the mirror. Be careful of setting it too often if you have a slow internet connection. I’ve seen it hang up trying to start again while it’s still running, then not update at all.
See mirror log - in ADNM console, View, View AMS logs, Mirror (or type following URL http://Your_Server_FQDN:5033/$$log$$_mirror in your browser)
You can see how often mirror communicates with download.avast.com and then you can change default settings in console