F-SECURE POLICY MANAGER 7.0 -, Administrator'S Manual

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In F-Secure Policy Manager 6.0 and onwards, the Automatic Update
Agent installed with F-Secure products tries to download the automatic
updates from the configured update sources in the following order:
a. If there are Policy Manager Proxies in use in the company
network, the client tries to connect to F-Secure Policy Manager
Server through each Policy Manager Proxy in turn.
b. If the client is configured to use HTTP Proxy, it tries to download
the updates through the HTTP Proxy from F-Secure Policy
Manager Server.
c. Next the client tries to download the updates directly from
F-Secure Policy Manager Server.
d. If there are Policy Manager Proxies in use in the company
network, the client tries to connect to F-Secure Update Server
through each Policy Manager Proxy in turn.
e. If the client is configured to use HTTP Proxy, it tries to download
the updates through the HTTP Proxy from F-Secure Update
Server.
f. After that the client tries to download the updates directly from
F-Secure Update Server.
The Benefits of Using F-Secure Automatic Update Agent
Optimized downloads of virus definition updates
F-Secure Automatic Update Agent detects when the virus definition
database has been changed. It uses sophisticated byte-level algorithms
to download only the changes instead of whole files or the whole
database. Changes are typically only a small fraction of the complete
update, and this enables dial-up users with slow modems to get the daily
updates conveniently, saving significant amounts of bandwidth for
fixed-connection users as well.
Resumable data transfers
F-Secure Automatic Update Agent downloads content over multiple
sessions. If the download is interrupted, F-Secure Automatic Update
Agent saves what was downloaded and continues to download the rest of
the file next time you connect.