Re: Ad-Aware definition up dates
- From: "Brian Tipka" <dreamer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 08:11:12 -0500
Yardbird,
It says, replace not copy over. Is my understand accurate in that the new
definitions I'm down loading the entire list of definitions or just the
latest ones? If it's replacing the old folder with just the new ones then
I'm losing some of my protection. What's your thoughts on this. Thanks,
Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: Ad-Aware definition up dates
Hi Bryan,
Sounds as if you did everything properly. Here's how to reassure yourself
that the new definition files installed as they should have. When you launch
AdAware, you're probably focused already on the Status button. Just press
the space bar, and either with regular navigation or using the Jaws cursor,
you should find the first line of the message that comes up to be a record
of your latest update files. Just see if the date is more recent than it
used to be.
Now, if following these directions doesn't make that line appear the first
time you press enter on Status, just hit Escape to close the notice and then
press the space bar again. I don't know why, but sometimes you have to do
that, and then the notice comes up with the first line as the definitions
file information.
And don't forget to do that installation without AdAware running, of course.
But I think you knew that. By the way, this also is probably something you
don't need to be told, but the reason you're asked to permit the copying
over of files (not a "defss folder," in my experience, but a file named
defs.ref) is that Lavasoft keeps using that same name for the file as they
update it. That's all. It's a good sign, not evidence that you're making a
mistake.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Tipka" <dreamer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "JFW Free List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 5:59 AM
Subject: Ad-Aware definition up dates
Hi Friends,
There were a few posts in the recent past on how to manually up date
Ad-Aware SE. I followed the instructions and things went very well until
when I was extracting the new definition files I was told that there was
already a folder called," defs", do you want to replace it with the new
folder with the same name. I selected, yes and continued on. When I went to
run Ad-Aware I was not greeted with, your definitions are "so many days old,
would you like to check for up dates". My question is, are the up date files
supplied by Lavasoft for Ad-Aware SE all of the files checked for by the
program or just the most recent? In other words, did I do the right thing
selecting to replace the "defs" folder? Your advice would be greatly
appreciated.
Brian
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