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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Update Your Antivirus

As a new virus (on computer terms) appear, your antivirus program must know that one.
So basically, there are two update for your antivirus :

1. Update the engine (antivirus program).
2. Update the database of virus.

Some antivirus offering option to download/update online via internet. But how if you have many computer to proses ? Some provide an offline update files. Which you can copy/transfer and run on the other computer.

Here the list of link for download (offline prefered) update your antivirus. If you have other antivirus, please put it on the comment. NOTE , some will need your login/password/registration info.

AVG / Grisoft :
AVG Updates and Free version (free version)

Norton / Symantec :
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/download/pages/US-N95.html
(beware the i-32 and x-86 version)

McAfee :
http://download.mcafee.com/updates/superDat.asp
!!! Do not download these updates if you are a subscriber of McAfee VirusScan or McAfee Personal Firewall. (Do no why they put it)  because some said the new one, just update online.

Fprot :
http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/
http://updates.f-prot.com/cgi-bin/get_randomly?fp-def
http://updates.f-prot.com/cgi-bin/get_randomly?macrdef2
Check also :
F-PROT for DOS Info

Clamav :
/usr/local/bin/freshclam –quiet -l /var/log/clam-update.log
Copy the data files to other pc.

Antivir / Free-av :
http://www.free-av.com/antivirclassic/vdfdown.html

Avast! :
http://www.avast.com/eng/updates.html

Platinum / Panda :
http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/Client+Zone/

Norman : must online

NOD :
Tequilla_boyz point to
http://download.paipai.net/texts/components.htm

1 comment:

douchrti said...

I used Avast for years with really great results.
Im trying Bitdefender now, its my first all-in-one.
Great post! It will help those who need the info.