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Manually Update AntiVirus Virus Definition Signatures Without Internet

Posted By Raymond In Category: Computer

May
10
2008

I got a new contract computer maintenance job at a private company with 127 computers. My job was to make sure that all the computers are working fine. First thing I looked for was of course an antivirus software. Every computer is equipped with a desktop version of Norton AntiVirus 2008 but not the corporate edition. This is a big mistake because the price of Norton AntiVirus 2008 for 127 license is nearly the same with Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition and the corporate edition can do much more than the desktop version.

The Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition provides advanced, enterprise-wide virus protection and monitoring from a single management console. Most importantly, the definition updates is much easier as all clients will grab the signature updates from the local server instead of all 127 computers wasting the Internet’s bandwidth to download the updates from Symantec’s server.

This could be one of the reason why they are experiencing really slow Internet connection at some time of the day. Fortunately most of the antivirus company provides an offline virus definition signatures for you to download and install on computers with limited or no internet connection at all.


This is what I did.
1. Turn off automatic Norton LiveUpdates on all 127 computers.
2. In local file server, schedule wget everyday at midnight to automatically download the latest virus definition and save it to a shared folder.
3. Make Windows XP (client) to automatically connect to the local file server and run the virus definition file when user is logged in.

wget is a very powerful software for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive command line tool, so it may easily be called from scripts and batch files. Manually installing the virus definition file is usually very easy. Simply run the downloaded executable signature file, it’ll detect the product version that is installed and will automatically extract the files to the correct location.

Download Norton symantec intelligent updater

Since this article is about offline antivirus signature updates, I thought I should make a list on where to get other popular antivirus offline definition files for my future references and perhaps yours too. If I’ve missed any, please let me know.

avast! 4 Offline Virus Definition (VPS)Download vpsupd.exe
AVG 7.5 Updates (AVI)Download
AVG 8.0 Updates (AVI)Download
Avira Offline Virus Definition File (VDF)Download ivdf_fusebundle_nt_en.zip
BitDefender Product UpdatesDownload
Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Virus DatabaseDownload main.cvd and daily.cvd
F-Secure Virus Definition DatabasesDownload latest.zip
Kaspersky Antivirus Database UpdatesDownload
McAfee Virus Definition Updates (DATs)Download
Norton / Symantec Virus Definition File (VDF)Download
Panda Virus Signature FileDownload
Sophos Virus Identify Files (IDE)Download
Trend Micro Offline Pattern FilesDownload

Both ESET NOD32 and Norman products doesn’t offer offline virus definition signature updates. So if you’re going to install an antivirus on a computer that has limited Internet connection, do not go for NOD32 and Norman. Usually installing the offline pattern files is very simple. Just run the downloaded signature file and it should automatically detect the installed product and extract to the appropriate location.


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    • steve

      when will we see more gadgets?
      i’ve seen so many posts on antiviruses and promotions but it is a very rare site to see a gadget post around here, which is one of the reasons that me and i’m sure alot of other people signed up for the newsleter.
      oh well thanks for all the good work raymond

    • http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

      Sorry steve, I am not really the kind of guy who keeps myself up to date with gadgets, although I love gadgets very much… Time factor is another reason because I have to work 6 days a week.

    • Deyaa Addeen Fahmy Shedeed

      Frankly, appreciate your efforts.
      May GOD bless you.

    • http://atomicsolarstorm.wordpress.com Solaris

      Thanks Raymond for your tip. :mrgreen:

    • digArt

      IKARUS virus.utilities
      http://updates.ikarus.at/updates/update.html

      Regards,

    • k9

      Hi Ray
      Could you please share with us how you implemented steps 2 and 3 as mentioned in today\\\’s article, i.e., scheduling wget everyday at midnight and making Windows XP to automatically connect to the local file server.

      Thanks!

    • MM

      Raymond, congratulations at your new job and thank you for this great tip!

    • jocker

      What about NOD?

    • George Paul

      But for a single user, it is needed to download updates twice in a month

    • George Paul

      No need to download daily for a home user, actually no AV is needed!

    • http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/05/10/manually-update-antivirus-virus-definition-signatures-without-internet/ Manoj kumar

      Respected Raymond
      I am very please to know if you help me in changing the Xp version of German language
      can be run in english version. Actually what happen my uncle friends was in Germany he send to me laptop
      pc which is in German language so i want it in english version for this i had consult in google for
      changing the language but it is too much defficult to change German version to English due to
      problem with Microsoft because microsoft do not premission to change the language without
      actual license of laptop xp version which is in German.So if you can help me please send me a link to
      change it in english version so i can use it properly. Problem is this i can format the German xp
      but it is not better because it has so many original application in it and if it give some problem
      we can again set to the factory setting, This is way i want put original software in it please tell how to
      change ? Thankyou
      Manoj Kumar
      monajk386@hotmail.com

    • Mojo

      Search in google:

      manually update nod32

      and you will find the way.

    • Brahim Mahammedi

      congratulations at your new job and thank you for your great efforts!

      I love verry much your site

      thanks, merciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

      PS. do you speak French plz ?

    • digArt

      Hi…

      “What about NOD?”

      - You need Nod ID (username&Password).
      - NodView http://nodview.net.ru/

      plan B:
      - install nod AV ESS business Edition
      - Make a update mirror on your hard drive.

    • gaurav_kk

      Thnx alot buddy

    • Mahmoud

      thanx man

      is not there offline update for Node 32 ??

    • William Gunn

      actually nod 32 does support offline signature retrieval or at least it did in the 2.5 version

      but from the looks or it there isn’t a direct button to support it but you can do it, just go into the settings and the update section of the client and tell it to retrieve the file from a specific server, now just give the computer with the updated definitions a static ip and you should be good to go, this method actually would allow you to have 1 computer with a legit license of Nod 32 and the rest will get free updates since the license only effects updates from THEIR server,

      just thought that would be good to mention,

      anyways there are plenty of websites that do this if you don’t have a legit license, i won’t tell you any because it probably shouldn’t be posted here, but their pretty easy to find and if you do that, all you need to do is setup the main comp to get the files from the website thats hosting the updates and then the rest of your comps get the updates locally from the main comp

    • http://tech-shinobi.com fr33mumia

      Go to this link h**p://www.nod32.jp/irda/ and download nodupdate.zip. Extract to new folder (ex. c:\nodupdate) and add “c:\nodupdate” in server mirror

    • pramod

      As you told that, for NOD32 there is no offline update, but I am using nod32 and i am downloading the offline update from nod32.jp/irda .. from this there is a zip file named nodupdate.zip it will update regularly. please go through this…

    • salwa

      my dear ray
      thanks for all ur programms ,but the previous program ( EvidenceEraser ) which sent it to my through my e mail without serial ,
      so i need the serial a.s.a.p
      thanks again

    • Alok

      Grate post for me because i have no internet connection thanks Raymond

    • jason

      sir,

      my computer is not showing the command prompt..
      tell me either windows xp is better or vista…

    • dev

      hi raym
      thanks for helping me in updating my vir def
      i hope i will get help from you in future
      thanks alot

    • erickita

      i alsoo have the problem with the geran lenguage!! i want to change it to english or spanish.. i have 21 viruses i think but i dont understand what they are because of the lenguage!! my computer is also from germany mi uncle gave it to me..

      thanks i really would like to fix it!!!

    • toninho

      obrigado por me ajudar na actualiza

    • http://www.virtualforos.com baldwing69

      Amigos much

    • http://www.virtualforos.com baldwing69

      Friend, I need your help, How can I do to download The Panda Virus Definitios data Base, When I click on the link given by you on this post, one window opens but a passwords is requested????

      Please Help!!!!!

    • Solaris

      For Kaspersky, offline update are only available for versions, 5, 6 and 7.

    • ngandjong

      j’ais inaller avg 8.0 sur on ordinateur et j’ais telecharger la mis a jour mais je n’arrive pas a l’installer

    • luis

      tienes user y password esa direecion cuales son porfa detallen h ** p: / / http://www.nod32.jp/irda/

    • ajap

      hola a todos: fr33mumia, esa direccion que das h ** p: / / http://www.nod32.jp/irda/ pide usuario y clave…que le introduzco ahi+ gracias

    • mmm

      ineed help on my assigment

    • laitux1

      en panda me pide un user y un pass para poder descargar la actualizacion del servidor. sin eso ni me deja entrar al site.

      gracias por la ayuda.

    • raschid216

      merci bien pas de conictio

    • Vladimiro Cicero C. de Leon

      Is there a difference between automatically updating your antivirus and manually updating it? Help will be highly appreciated.

    • G.MURTAZA

      I want to solve my problems with the help of your antivirus.plz send me update files of avira or any other antivirus on this email. s_ghulam_murtaza@yahoo.com Thanks

    • Gardo Gutierrez

      Thank you so much for this, Sir Raymond :)

    • http://updates marsh

      sir i wanted offline updates so that i can update my other pc with no internet connection plz help

    • Heidi

      Thank you so much for the offline updates link!

    • igo

      Download here for Kaspersky, eset NOD32,and Panda offline update..
      Thanks admin :)

    • http://www.technyat.com/ LiMoO

      Thanks a lot for this helpful article.

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