Sunday, August 30, 2009

Offline Updates:Anti-Virus Software

   Previously I've talked about how to update anti virus software without a net connection.In this post I'll describe how to do that for a few software.
 1.For the software listed below the update file is an executable;run the file and the update is completed.
    (a)Avast
    (b)Windows Defender
    (c) Spybot S & D
    (d)Super Anti-Spyware
 2.Avira-Start Avira anti-virus and from the tabs select update/manual
    Browse for the update file and select it;the update process is completed.
    Dont unzip or change the name of the update file.
 3.Ad-Aware-Unzip the file and copy it to
    (a)C:\Program Data\Lavasoft\Ad-Aware\Defs in the case of Vista
    (b)C:\Documents and Settings\All User\App Data\Lavasoft\Ad-    
        Aware\Defs in the case of XP.

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