NAV 2004 - Watch out for what LiveUpdate is doing on the Int
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Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 6:04 pm Post subject: NAV 2004 - Watch out for what LiveUpdate is doing on the Int
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Hi there.
Like most of you guys, I was really anxious to try Norton AntiVirus 2004. The keygen took a little while to come out, but it worked fine for the activation scheme with the TMG release.
I started using it and noticed that LiveUpdate was checking for updates very frequently! Too frequently. It is not possible to have an update to download every 2 hours or so.
So, when chatting a while in IRC, someone told me that there were users being banned by Symantec (deactivating the program makes it totally unuseful). It seems that LiveUpdate is prepared to do much more than it is supposed to: besides updating, it also seems to do the dirty job of checking activations against their database.
From a Symantec perspective, this is very intelligent: you would find suspicious if any other application would be trying to go to the Internet, but not LiveUpdate...
My advice until some hack or fix is released: block LiveUpdate access to the Internet in your firewall OR go back to NAV 2003 until all these initial problems are solved (my choice!.
I hope this is somehow useful for the community (I thought it was...).
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