Why spam definition databases have not been updated for a while?
This applies to F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper 6.40 and 6.41 when Spam Control module is installed. This problem is solved in F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper 6.42. Because of certain technical limitations with the spam database format used by the Spam Control module in F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange and F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper, F-Secure did not release new spam definition databases to the automatic update channel used by these products for a short period. The database format limitations have been solved in F-Secure Content Scanner Server hotfix 4, available on the Hotfix download pages. Installing this hotfix is required for the automatic spam database updates. Environments without the Spam Control module do not benefit from this hotfix. Users of the affected products with the Spam Control module enabled may update the latest spam definition databases also manually. This should be done if spam detection capabilities with the current databases seem to degrade. The databases
