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Update

In the Update section, you can see the current update status of your ESET Mail Security, including the date and time of the last successful update. Regularly updating ESET Mail Security is the best method to maintain the maximum level of security on your server.

The Update module ensures that the program is always up to date in two ways, by updating detection engine and system components. Updating detection engine and program components is an important part of providing complete protection against malicious code.


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If you did not type your License Key yet, you will not be able to receive updates and will be prompted to activate your Product. To do so, navigate to Help and support > Activate Product.

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Current version—The ESET Mail Security build version.

Last successful update—The date of the last update. Make sure it refers to a recent date, which means that the modules is current.

Last successful check for updates—The date of the last attempt to update modules.

Show all modules—To open the list of installed module.

Check for updates—Updating modules is important parts of maintaining complete protection against malicious code.

Change update frequency—You can edit task timing for scheduler task Regular automatic update.


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Proxy server options for various update profiles may differ. If this is the case, configure the different update profiles in Advanced setup (F5) by clicking Update > Profile.