Anti-virus Essentials / date of Virus signature

Hi
I installed Anti-virus Essentials on the WD mirror.
It worked.
But the signature of the viruse files are date to 2014.
I have tried to update this serveral times with out any success.

My question is anti-virus still a valid product?
Are there any other tools?

Thank you
Matthias

Hello,

This user had the same issue.
He posted that he tried updating after several hours.