---
title: "Is GFI Software Anti-virus definitions updates down? GFI Software Anti-virus definitions updates status"
url: "https://www.openstatus.dev/status/gfi/anti-virus-definitions-updates"
description: "Live GFI Software Anti-virus definitions updates status, uptime over the last 45 days and recent incidents, tracked by openstatus."
---

# Is GFI Software Anti-virus definitions updates down?

**Answer:** No, GFI Software Anti-virus definitions updates is not down. All GFI Software Anti-virus definitions updates systems are operational.

- Status: operational
- Checked: 2026-11-07T07:20:02Z
- User reports in the last 15 minutes: 0
- Part of: [GFI Software](/status/gfi.md) / GFI MailEssentials
- Official status page: https://status.gfi.com

## Last 45 days

2 of 2 tracked days without issues.

## Incidents affecting Anti-virus definitions updates

| Started | Incident | Impact | Duration |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-01-28 | [Issue with Update and Download Services](https://stspg.io/3wn7rck52zc1) | major | 1d 5h |
| 2025-10-20 | [AWS Degraded – Multiple Services in US-East-1 Region](https://stspg.io/w5y2n2bnylfj) | critical | 12h 8m |
| 2025-07-10 | [Mail Processing Impact – Avira Virus Scanner Engine](https://stspg.io/f5wj71cnsb2z) | minor | 8d |
| 2024-06-03 | [Avira updates are not available and mail flow stopping in MailEssentials](https://stspg.io/hd7mpxv585cn) | critical | 2d |

## Links

- HTML page: /status/gfi/anti-virus-definitions-updates
- Service: /status/gfi.md