AV signatures date 06.08.2012

Hallo Oliver,

Ihr Einverständnis voraussetzend übersetze ich Ihren Beitrag und antworte auf Englisch.

Oliver Schumann's response translated:

Thanks for the Info. Feel at ease now.

I think however the display is misleading and should be changed.

First of all it has been like that for a long time (probably "since the beginning") and a change might cause some confusion. Nevertheless - one might argue that the Virus data date information is somewhat redundant as a  Detection data version is issued only once. In addition you will get an alert from Windows Security Center (assuming it is enabled) if the detection data is older than 35 days. The issue date is not available on the IDE page though (you could counter it should) so it 's perhaps a good idea it is there.

I think the confusion arises from the fact that two actually three dates can be seen in the GUI/taskbar balloon:

• Last checked for updates in the balloon which is the same as Last updated in the Status pane of the GUI denoting that the last check for updates was successful and its time
• Last updated in the Product information view denoting the time a check resulted in one or more files to be updated/added
• Virus data date obtained from vdl.dat denoting the libraries' issue date

... one gets used to it ...

Although this design is occasionally questioned there doesn't seem too much demand for it to be changed (or no one has come up with a satisfactory naming :smileywink:).

Christian

Hallo Oliver,

Ihr Einverständnis voraussetzend übersetze ich Ihren Beitrag und antworte auf Englisch.

Oliver Schumann's response translated:

Thanks for the Info. Feel at ease now.

I think however the display is misleading and should be changed.

First of all it has been like that for a long time (probably "since the beginning") and a change might cause some confusion. Nevertheless - one might argue that the Virus data date information is somewhat redundant as a  Detection data version is issued only once. In addition you will get an alert from Windows Security Center (assuming it is enabled) if the detection data is older than 35 days. The issue date is not available on the IDE page though (you could counter it should) so it 's perhaps a good idea it is there.

I think the confusion arises from the fact that two actually three dates can be seen in the GUI/taskbar balloon:

• Last checked for updates in the balloon which is the same as Last updated in the Status pane of the GUI denoting that the last check for updates was successful and its time
• Last updated in the Product information view denoting the time a check resulted in one or more files to be updated/added
• Virus data date obtained from vdl.dat denoting the libraries' issue date

... one gets used to it ...

Although this design is occasionally questioned there doesn't seem too much demand for it to be changed (or no one has come up with a satisfactory naming :smileywink:).

Christian