Update F-prot Antivirus
Automatic Update
Manual Update
Automatically Updating the Virus Signature Files
To automatically update the virus signature files you can use the
check-updates.pl perl script in conjunction with cron. Cron
is the built-in command scheduler in UNIX. To schedule check-updates.pl to run
periodically, you must create the crontab scheduler file. Please
consult your system manual to find out how.
The most common command for creating a crontab is crontab -e. Running it
will start an editor where you must fill in the time and date fields appropriately.
Please note that as most users set the updater to check for and download new virus signature
files on the hour e.g. or you can optimise your download speed by
setting the updater starting time to any number of minutes past the hour e.g. or .
In this way you avoid the heaviest download traffic.
The time and date fields are:
field
allowed values
minute
0-59
hour
0-23
day of month
1-31
month
1-2 or names, see below
day of week
0-7 0 or 7 is Sun, or use names
Example:27 4,16 /usr/local/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl -cron
With this configuration, you will get e-mails whenever
signature files are updated or when an error occurs. If you
only want to receive e-mail only when an error, occurs, then
you want to include the -quiet parameter:
27 4,16 /usr/local/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl -cron -quiet
Please make sure you run check-updates.pl as root, otherwise
it will not have filesystem permissions to update the virus
database. For further information about check-updates.pl,
please consult the check-updates.pl manual page.
Manually Updating the Virus Signature Files
The virus signature files are stored in two files. On one hand the virus signature files
for Application/Script viruses and Trojans, called sign.def and sign2.def. On the other hand
the virus signature file for Document/Office/Macro viruses, called macro.def.
You can update either of these files or both at once.
To update the virus signature files, please type the following and press Enter:
/usr/local/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl
You should receive a screen output similar to this:
If you update only the virus signature files for Application/Script viruses and Trojans
you should receive a screen output similar to this:
If you update only the virus signature files for Document/Office/Macro viruses
If there are no updates available, you get a message telling you that there is nothing to be done.
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