Automatically Updating The Anti-Virus Database - KAPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS 5.7 - FOR LINUX FILE SERVER Administrator's Manual

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in the [updater.options] section of the application configuration file. In this case
the keepup2date component starts choosing the update servers, marked as
belonging to the specified region. If the update cannot be performed from the
address selected, the component switches to the next URL and makes another
attempt.
Updates to the anti-virus database are uploaded to Kaspersky Lab's
updates servers on an hourly basis.
You can use a server that does not belong to Kaspersky Lab as an up-
date source. Databases of Kaspersky Anti-Virus on the server can be
released earlier than the ones installed on your computer. In case of an
update from such server, the outdated databases will replace more cur-
rent records.
After a successful update, a command, specified by the PostUpdateCmd
parameter of the configuration file‟s [updater.options] section, is executed. By
default this command automatically reloads the anti-virus database. If an invalid
change is made to this setting, the application may fail to use the updated
database or will function improperly.
All settings of the keepup2date component are grouped in the [upda-
ter.*] section of the configuration file.
If the structure of your local area network is complex, you are advised to
download updates to the anti-virus database from the updates servers every
hour, place them in a network directory, and configure local computers
throughout the network to use this directory as their update source. For details
on the creation of a network directory, see 4.1.3 on p. 24.
The update may be scheduled using the cron utility (see 4.1.1 on p. 21) or it may
be performed on-demand by the administrator who can run this task manually
from the command line (see 4.1.2 on p. 23).
We strongly recommend that you configure the anti-virus database up-
dates to be performed every hour!
4.1.1. Automatically updating the anti-virus
database
You can schedule regular automatic updates of the anti-virus database by
modifying the configuration file.
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