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Thread ID: 14109	2001-12-29 13:25:00	Norton AV & Zone Alarm?	Guest (0)	Press F1

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29049	2001-12-29 13:25:00	Howdy folks. I am running Norton AV 2002 which is updated nearly everyday, and it seems to stop eveything its supposed to, but I have been wondering wether its worth running Zone Alarm at the same time? To me, and I'm probably wrong, they both seem to do a similar job. Wouldnt that be using up valuable disk space and system resources needlessly? I shall abide by the collective knowledge available to me.	Guest (0)
29050	2001-12-29 21:06:00	Don't confuse the functions of either program as they do somewhat different jobs. NAV is there to protect you against virus's of which there are plenty, ZA is a firewall that is there to control who gains access to or from your computer and is handy for stopping spyware calling home or to help prevent the implant of trojans.	Guest (0)
29051	2001-12-29 22:08:00	Wonderful advice Gordon.. Although I dont run a FW myself (I really should get one and ZA would be it), I do run NAV 2001. Continue to run them together as they do have different roles to play. Just one thing though, you shouldn't be updating your definition files every day (unless it's changed with 2002). Are you running it yourself or using live update ?? Usually it should update twice a month.. Good luck in your quest good knight..	Guest (0)
29052	2001-12-29 23:01:00	As per the message from Chris further down (or up the page), there is no reason to run the update in NAV each day though I know a couple that do, if you go into options, I think it will be under LiveUpdate, it is in 2001 anyway, enable Automatic LiveUpdate and depending on your connection you could pick either Update Automatically or Advise when updates are available. With the first, the updates are applied directly and you may not be aware of them downloading in the background, if you wnat to know that updates are still being applied take the second, when updates are detected, it will,pop up a small message and you just follow the prompts to download and install as you are already doing now under the manual system.	Guest (0)
29053	2001-12-29 23:05:00	'you shouldn't be updating your definition files every day' err why not?? twice a month is slack but still better than not at all. you can update as often as you like. just run liveupdate, if there is a new update then download it. if there there isn't then you are up to date. sit back and relax ;-) norton can have new updates every day depending on how many new virus have come out.	Guest (0)
29054	2001-12-30 01:26:00	Thanks for that guys. I shall get ZA asap. NAV is set for auto update, and to let me know. Sometimes there are new updates on a daily basis, othertimes, every second day. As teak_e said, any update is a good update. Better safe than sorry. Cheers	Guest (0)
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