Offline Antivirus Updates

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[ialtaparmakov]

Basically you need all the Important Updates as provided by Windows Update. No need for the firewall's advice here.

yes  it is !!!  is but recently i have such experience:
i wanted to download updates from update.microsoft.com
and there was an error  - with error number that was not even mentioned in microsoft support ...
i checked the state of automatic updates and found that they was off
this was strange - i turned them on few time ago 
i turned on automatic updates every where (i have 20- 30 computers in a domain 2003) ...
but the next day updates was turned off again
and there was the same error with update.microsoft.com
i started scanning and fond some viruses  - 1sass.exe , sysmgr.exe and so on  dated from
27.02.2009 (- these viruses was not cleaned by symantec till now)  and what was my surprise
when on the cleaned computers on the shut down automatic updates was installed ,and there was no more errors at update.microsoft.com

so potentially there could be a virus that can disable automatic updates and even prevent manual updates
and so the good antivirus should not rely on microsoft updates ,and should help user to overcome problems with microsoft updates  , and perhaps should not rely entirely on network antivirus updates but should include some offline updates.

thanks best regards

[EricJH]

With hindsight I can say I spoke a little too soon there. I think it may be a good idea if the firewall would check the status of Windows Automatic Updates. I wrongly assumed Windows would detect it and alert the user.

[siyam]

COMODO Offline UpDATER PLEASEEE!!! not that enterprise stuff thats 3gigs and growing,something simple for home user like us,who may have relatives too far north of the web and needs manual updating OR the PARANOIDS in us that has workstations offline,...........



 

[siyam]

this is the most viewed(dare i say watched),post in this section of the AV wish list....any of you guys noticed.Wink wink comodo!

[devenroy]

Exactly Siyam, thanks for post, we all are waiting for offline antivirus updates & as far as i heard comodo team is working on it as well so lets hope we all will be benifited very soon.

Otherwise it is also good idea to create one latest offline update torrent file, so people with slow connection can download it using bittorant clients like (utorrent) as it has Resume feature as well, so we all come to basic updated version, after that for us to update antivirus online would be easy than downloading 100mb first big update.

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