{"id":8970,"date":"2026-10-20T17:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T14:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/support-articles\/how-to-stop-automatic-updates-for-client-security-or-server-security\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T17:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T14:28:18","slug":"how-to-stop-automatic-updates-for-client-security-or-server-security","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/support-articles\/how-to-stop-automatic-updates-for-client-security-or-server-security\/","title":{"rendered":"How to stop automatic updates for Client Security or Server Security?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Issue:<\/h3>\n

How to stop automatic updates for Client Security or Server Security? If for example we want to have the client update malware definition, engine and database updates on a schedule or we want to manually update them?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Resolution:<\/h3>\n

The automatic updates can be disabled for Client Security and Server Security via the Policy Manager Console policies:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Log in to the Policy Manager Console<\/li>\n
  2. Select a host or policy domain from the domain tree<\/li>\n
  3. Go to the Settings <\/strong>tab\u00a0<\/li>\n
  4. Navigate to the Windows > Centralized management <\/strong>settings page<\/li>\n
  5. Scroll down to the Automatic updates <\/strong>section<\/li>\n
  6. untick the Enable automatic updates <\/strong>option<\/li>\n
  7. Distribute the policy (Ctrl + D).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This will disable the automatic update agent (AUA) on the Client Security and Server Security hosts so that they will not automatically try to update the malware definitions, engines and databases. Please not that WithSecure products cannot provide full protection if you switch off automatic updates.<\/p>\n

    To update manually, you would need to click the Check for updates <\/strong>button in the local user interface. The updates cannot be scheduled to happen only at specific times.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    As a workaround, you could instead simply increase the Interval for polling updates from Policy Manager Server <\/strong>value from the default 1 hour to a higher value if you do not want the client to update as often.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    How to stop automatic database update in Server Security?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[106],"class_list":["post-8970","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000007299","source_version":1,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-10-20 14:26:33","import_hash":"8677896eefdcffef5a03f30ba9a7e7cd4c61ae2c","vanilla_article_id":"","vanilla_url":"","vanilla_kb_id":"","vanilla_category_id":"","machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":"","reactions_helpful_no":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/8970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=8970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}