User Guide

Updating and Upgrading VirusScan Software
112 McAfee VirusScan Anti-Virus Software
• Update your files immediately from the sites listed in the update
list, using default configuration options or the options you chose for
this task. Click Update now.
To use this function, you must have configured enough of the
necessary options for the AutoUpdate utility to locate the listed site
and, if necessary, log on to it. See “Configuring update options” on
page 113 to learn how to specify the options you need.
If AutoUpdate cannot connect to the listed site after three attempts,
or if it does not find new .DAT files, it will connect to each of the
other sites listed until it finds the most current .DAT files available.
If you have the Force Update option selected, AutoUpdate will
download any .DAT files it finds on the first site to which it can
connect successfully. See “Configuring advanced update options”
on page 115 for more details.
4. Click the Log Activity tab to display the next property page (Figure 6-3).
Figure 6-3. Automatic Update dialog box - Log Activity page
5. Select the Log activity into the Activity Log File checkbox.
By default, the AutoUpdate utility records what happens during update
attempts and saves the record in the file UPDATE UPGRADE ACTIVITY
LOG.TXT in the VirusScan program directory whenever you stop the
task or when you shut your system down.