Re: Norton AV won't initiate scan

The definition files may be up to a week old if doing a manual download of
virus definitions for NAV. If that's what you mean by manual liveupdate.
If you mean you activated liveupdate via the NAV menu, excuse my reply.

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Jonny
"Leythos" <void@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:N4Mhf.234687$lI5.57899@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <438786af$2$260$bb4e3ad8@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, |@|.| says...
> > Leythos wrote:
> > >
> > > In side by side testing, AVG is not as reliable a detector of viruses
as
> > > is Norton or Symantec. I've seen systems at new clients running AVG
and
> > > Norton, where Norton picked up things that AVG didn't, but not the
other
> > > way around.
> >
> > Norton, updated, is better at detecting new viruses when compared to
> > others. If you're a cluebie newbie with aol and likely to find/acquire
> > the latest in new viruses, then norton AV is a good choice.
>
> I disagree about the "New viruses" as I just had a case where our mail
> server let in (to a trap) a Zip file with the latest Trojan. The normal
> update process runs every 4 hours on our servers, every 1 hour on the
> email servers. While Symantec had already detected it, their normal
> update pulls did not contain the definition - the Priority update
> contained it, but it was not until about 8PM EST that the normal update
> pulls got the latest definition and detected it - even a manual live
> update did not pull the update.
>
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