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Thread ID: 34240 2003-06-08 01:56:00 And yet another NAV Update Kiwitas (514) Press F1
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150761 2003-06-08 01:56:00 Must be some sort of a record for Symantec as todays
"Live Update" of micro-defs is their 5th in past 7 days?

The 606.7Kb's of these definitions should take your total to
64045.

Cheers,Kiwitas,;-)
Kiwitas (514)
150762 2003-06-08 02:01:00 >
> The 606.7Kb's of these definitions should take your
> total to
> 64045.
OOPS,make that 64054!

Cheers,Kiwitas,;-)
Kiwitas (514)
150763 2003-06-08 02:21:00 > The 606.7Kb's of these definitions should take
> your total to 64045.
> OOPS,make that 64054!

Hi Kiwitas, I was wondering if you can tell me exactly where i look to see the total defs, as stated above (or is that imfo. just stated at the symantec site??). I just can't seem to find anywhere that actually states the total defs in NAV ?:| and I have often wondered where i would find that imfo. Using NAV 2003 Pro. ed. on xp pro.

Thanks :-)
J ZEP (336)
150764 2003-06-08 02:39:00 Hi J ZEP

You can see your current defintion number by opening up NAV, select Reports and then Virus list > View Report. It will show your latest definition date as well as the number of definitions.

Cheers
Jen
Jen C (20)
150765 2003-06-08 06:57:00 > You can see your current defintion number by opening
> up NAV, select Reports and then Virus list > View
> Report. It will show your latest definition date as
> well as the number of definitions.

Hi Jen, thanks for that imfo, I will go have a looksee as soon as i get back on that puter. No doubt its right under my nose :8} :D. One of the reasons i was wanting to know was i did a "system restore"(xp) a few weeks back - and i remember reading on F1(here) i think it was, that when you use system restore you loose any NAV updates you did in between that restore period :O, so i want to check just to be safe ;-) and also peace of mind knowing i am totally up to date.
Cheers
J ZEP (336)
150766 2003-06-08 11:07:00 Not only that but this one seems to be buggy as. Is causing my computer to spontaniously shut itself down. I have disabled it just so I can get my PC to run more than 5 minutes.

Very poor quality control.
Big John (551)
150767 2003-06-08 11:16:00 Humm, Just used the Live Update again and there is another update already. Must have found that bug and released an update. Time to re-enable and test it out and see if it is stable once more. Big John (551)
150768 2003-06-09 10:19:00 > Humm, Just used the Live Update again and there is
> another update already. Must have found that bug and
> released an update. Time to re-enable and test it out
> and see if it is stable once more.

Nope that did not work. Had to completely un-install NAV and NIS both to get machine stable and re-install both. Downloaded the updates again and all seems fine. Might suspect a data corruption somewhere with the update as it came down the line.
Big John (551)
150769 2003-06-09 10:34:00 Hi Big John

There was a recent update for NIS and Nortons Personal Firewall which caused a bit of havoc, this might of been the problem you were experiencing.

Norton Internet Security 2003 does not load on reboot after applying the 6.04 patch via LiveUpdate (service1.symantec.com).

My Norton Personal Firewall was affected, it wouldn't load and then it took out NAV. I did a System Restore and rolled back one day to fix it. They are still working on a fix for that update.

Jen
Jen C (20)
150770 2003-06-10 00:32:00 > There was a recent update for NIS and Nortons
> Personal Firewall which caused a bit of havoc, this
> might of been the problem you were experiencing.

That was it. I turn off restore as it takes too much disk space. I just do entire backups. I just uninstalled everything, removed extra entries in the registery that the uninstalls did not remove and re-installed everything. No issues after that.

Mine was worse than the symptoms they gave though. Mine just crashed straight to shutdown randomly and when I tried to open NIS
Big John (551)
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