Update F-prot Antivirus

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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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How do I update the virus signature files? - F-PROT Antivirus Support - Unix

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