Anti-virus Not updating (6.0.6)

I find this to be the case as well.....

If you have SSH, you can trigger a manual check for update on the A/V signatures.

# /frontview/bin/avdu -v 3
avdu.c:481(3) defId: 0-->201305211449
avdu.c:291(3) Start downloading definition file (201305211449)
avdu.c:303(3) Done downloading definition file (201305211449) rc=0 http_status=200
avdu.c:502(2) Successfully download definition file (201305211449)
avdu.c:330(3) Start installing virus definition file (201305211449)
avdu.c:356(3) Success installing virus definition file (201305211449)
avdu.c:519(2) Successfully installed new definition file (201305211449)

They have gone out of their way to hide command line arguments from people for some reason.

Thanks Chirpa

Is it possible to schedule the task to run daily ?

Andrew

It looks like it is scheduled in some manner. I've seen it periodically update between 3-7 days on one system. It's not a crontab job though, must be internally scheduled in the readynasd agent. Though I last saw that with 6.0.5 and lower. They keep stripping stuff in the newer versions, like hiding the command line arguments, its possible something could be broken in 6.0.6, haven't looked in detail at that release.

Hi..

Just noticed my AV had updated after a week of being powered on >>> Would prefer once a day NetGear..

Andrew

I am wondering if the AV updates are pushed (e.g., not scheduled, but updated when they change).

StephenB Not sure , but if you reboot or disable/Enable AV it load a new Signature file almost every time ..
Andrew~

StephenB, they are pulled. It checks http://0001E241P1281I072105:@avdl.ctmai ... ir-hit.ini to see if the available definitions date is newer than what it has, then downloads it.

Then it should either check often enough that no one cares, or you should be able to set the schedule (agreeing with AndrewT's desire for more frequent updates).

Until we find out how they schedule it, a cronjob script could be created which runs /frontview/bin/avdu on a defined schedule.