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

Elbow

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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    I see (although I'm not sure which article or manual you a referring to - it'd help if you'd include a reference in the future).

    Now, Update now attempts to download the updates from "somewhere" (which could also be a local folder/share), checks the integrity and then calls setup.exe. So if you have installed Sophos by copying the SAVSCFXP folder to a local folder and run setup.exe from there this will be the location AutoUpdate uses (BTW: I assume you have turned off automatic updating) when you request Update now. 

    Running setup.exe from the local folder or a removable media is more or less but not exactly the same :smileyhappy:

    Christian

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    I see (although I'm not sure which article or manual you a referring to - it'd help if you'd include a reference in the future).

    Now, Update now attempts to download the updates from "somewhere" (which could also be a local folder/share), checks the integrity and then calls setup.exe. So if you have installed Sophos by copying the SAVSCFXP folder to a local folder and run setup.exe from there this will be the location AutoUpdate uses (BTW: I assume you have turned off automatic updating) when you request Update now. 

    Running setup.exe from the local folder or a removable media is more or less but not exactly the same :smileyhappy:

    Christian

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