And here, we go again - no Capricorn-updates.

MNielsen

Again no updates.

JOnes

"patience is a trump card"

MNielsen

Yes - also here, there has been severak updates after I wrote for them…

I have the bad habit to check manually for updates from years ago, when only having free antivirus program,so that's why, I always knows when there's no updates…

TVC15

Hello :)

In light of these two posts, I'm not to worried about if there is a Capricorn update delay. If I were working offline more often, then I may be more concerned.

https://community.f-secure.com/en/discussion/comment/138738#Comment_138738

https://community.f-secure.com/en/discussion/comment/138778#Comment_138778

Cheers

edit: @MNielsen I like your desktop wallpaper :)

MNielsen

https://community.f-secure.com/en/discussion/comment/138844#Comment_138844

Thank you! I think, I found it in the Windows-folder, somewhere, and extracted them, by putting a ".jpg" after the file name after I had copied them to the Pictures-folder. As I remember, the wallpaper is from Dubai? Perhaps, I'm wrong… Here, you get it without antivirus… It's from Windows 10…

TVC15

https://community.f-secure.com/en/discussion/comment/138845#Comment_138845

Thank you, how kind of you 😊😊

MNielsen

https://community.f-secure.com/en/discussion/comment/138846#Comment_138846

You're welcome! I did the same thing with the lock screen-pictures. There's some advices on how to do it on the net, I followed, Again - don't remember which website I read it. Sorry!

Ukko

Hello,

When there is a suspicion that some updates were not received by mistake / erroneously, you can always (and I often did this before) look in dbtracker (for Capricorn engine as an example, F-Secure Latest Database Updates for F-Secure Capricorn). As such, it will be written there whether there were updates for a particular component today, as well as the "namedate_num" and publishing timestamp.

It can be noted that sometimes (very rarely) real situation may not coincide with what is written there; and this will not be a sign of a local system problem (for some reason the updates that should have been not received). It's just a kind of non-synchronization of information.

If there is no information about released updates, then there were none. If they haven't been there for a full day or two, then this is already "no Capricorn updates", but again it will not always mean a problem. Especially if during the weekend, where the frequency almost always decreases for one reason or another.

Also, for example, the previous engine often released updates such as: combining a number of existing individual signatures into one large generic. Thus, the updates received were a kind of optimization rather than adding new protection against new threats (but objectively speaking, of course, such a generic signature could detect unknown threats more effectively). Let's say removed three hundred signatures and added one signature (which would detect all those previous three hundred and maybe, in theory, many more unknowns; but which was not specifically designed for this, only optimization). Another scenario would be to release an update that would simply "remove" the false positive detections / signatures. Which, again, does not provide protection against "new" threats. So such updates will not always indicate the degree or relevance of protection against the most latest threats (naturally, when a period of time of a day/two/three is discussed).

I don't know if the Capricorn engine does this. And then, of course, modern AV databases / engines (Capricorn, for instance) are not only about signatures, but also logic and much more.

It's just important to always have the latest "available" security solution updates. And it is expected that an active, reliable company will maintain relevance at an acceptable and appropriate level.

Thanks!

// by the way, I also have a strong habit of checking (Check for updates or Check now) quite often even if I know that they were installed quite recently. :)