Disabling Dr Web Update Email Alerts

Disabling Dr Web Update Alerts

If you have Dr Web antivirus on your VPS or dedicated server in certain versions of Plesk, it automatically sends emails to the admin email address whenever it updates (which is quite frequently!). Obviously this can be quite irritating and parallels haven't well documented how this can be disabled. If you receiving update alerts from Dr Web (they will contain update.pl in the email) you can disable them by doing the following in the shell as root.

1)

cd /etc/cron.d/

2) Edit the file drweb-update file with your editor of choice. e.g.

nano drweb-update 

or

vim drweb-update

3) and change

*/30 * * * * drweb /opt/drweb/update.pl 

to

*/30 * * * * drweb /opt/drweb/update.pl >/dev/null 2>&1

This will cause the update emails to be sent into the ether never to return, rather than to you.