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How to manually update McAfee definitions

Author: Luis Fernandes Updated

Answer

PROBLEM

An antivirus engine definition has become corrupt and cannot be initialized or successfully complete Auto-Updates.

ENVIRONMENT

  • GFI MailEssentials
  • All supported environments

SOLUTION

There are two ways to initiate the update.

Solution 1
  1. Navigate to the following directory <GFI MailEssentials installation path>\GFI\MailEssentials\Updater\nai and delete the following files
  • mcafee_current_revision.txt
  • mcafee_current_revision.txt.checked
  • mcafee_current_revision.txt.tmp
  1. Open Services.msc and restart the GFI MailEssentials AV Scan Engine and GFI MailEssentials Autoupdater services.
  2. Open MailEssentials Configuration and navigateto  Email Security > Virus Scanning Engines > McAfee.
  3. Click Download Updates and click Apply.
  4. Verify that the definitions successfully installed on the Update status section.
Solution 2
If the above steps do not update the definitions a manual update is required in order to clear the possible corrupt definitions out of the MailEssentials directories. Follow the steps below in order to complete the manual update process.
  1. Open a browser and navigate to http://cdnupdate.gfi.com/
  2. Navigate to the following directory incav2 > mcafee > C1 folder and click the mcafee_current_version.c1.zip link to download the latest Mcafee Definitions.
  3. After the download has completed you will need to navigate to service.msc and stop the SMTP or transport service(note this will stop mail flow and queue the messages in exchange until restarted)
  4. In services.msc console locate and stop all gfi services related to MailEssentials
  5. Extract the downloaded zip from step 2 to the following location <GFI MailEssentials installation path>​\GFI\MailEssentials\Updater\nai  overwrite when prompted by windows
  6. Navigate to the directory where you just extracted the files to from the previous step  <GFI MailEssentials installation path>​\GFI\MailEssentials\Updater\nai and locate the file mcafee.zip
  7. Extract the mcafee.zip twice to the following locations <GFI MailEssentials installation path>\GFI\MailEssentials\AntiVirus\mcafee and <GFI MailEssentials installation path>\GFI\MailEssentials\AntiVirus\backup\McAfee overwrite when prompted
  8. Start all services stopped in step 3 and 4.
  9. Open MailEssentials configuration and verify that the Mcafee Engine has been updated Successfully with the latest version

CAUSE

  • The definitions files were corrupted and that can cause update failures.
  • Third party antivirus or backup scanning of the GFI MailEssentials folders can corrupt definitions.
  • Content filter type Hardware firewalls can corrupt the MD5 checksum during the update process please verify the proper exclusions are in your hardware firewall for successful updates. Please see the following article for the current update sites needed to be excluded in your firewall.https://www.gfi.com/support/products/gfi-mailessentials/What-sites-are-used-for-GFI-Product-Updates

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