Updates

Using

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BitDefender

 

#!/bin/sh

#BitDefender update script, using cron service

#Copyright (C) 1996-2005 SOFTWIN SRL. All rights reserved.

#Place this script under one of the following directories for daily

#or even hourly updates (find their equivalents on your system if

#they do not exactly match):

#/etc/cron.daily

#/etc/cron.hourly

#IMPORTANT: change this parameter according to your installation BDSCAN=/opt/BitDefender-scanner/bin/bdscan

#Now let's run the update process

$BDSCAN --update

# End of the update script

Finally, make the script executable with the next command.

#chmod 755 bdscan-update

You can even try to manually run the script, to test it works properly.

11.1.3. HTTP proxy

You may use a HTTP proxy server to connect to Internet. In this case, the triggered update may fail, since the BitDefender update server can not be reached.

To specify a proxy server to be used when updating, you have to open the configuration file, usually located at /etc/BitDefender-scanner/bdscan.conf, and add the following line. You should replace the sample values according to your conditions.

HttpProxy = your.proxy.server:port

11.2. Manual update

If you have no Internet access, meaning that bdscan can not check and download the updates, you can perform a manual update. Basically, there are two zip archives

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