Updating old virus definitions - .ide files older than 3 months?

Question

Hi,

I've been reading through other forum posts regarding standalone updates for Sophos.

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I need to update the virus definitions only - not the client. The website only provides files from the past three months - is there any way I can download older .ide files that that? Will updating the .ide files only cause any compatibility issues with the client?

Ideally I'd like to be able to:

- copy in .ide files

- restart SAV service

Anything I'm missing?

Thanks in advance

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QC · Accepted Answer

Hello Elbow, if you "update" the IDEs the Detection Data version stays the same as the libraries are not changed/updated. That's why there are more IDEs the older the VDL version. Furthermore, as far as I know no special consistency checks are performed if you "manually" update the IDEs.  As for the G - it denotes the SESC (as opposed to SAV) version which supports the extra features (like Application Control) on Windows. Christian :35447