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Norton And Updates

Mar 3, 2004 4:54AM PST

whats going on with norton? it asks me to update my virus definitions EVERY SINGLE DAY!!!!
is this normal?

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Re:Norton And Updates
Mar 3, 2004 5:25AM PST

Yep, it is normal these days as every day new variants from Bagle, MyDoom and Netzky are detected !

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Yep, McAfee's Been Doing The Same Thing
Mar 3, 2004 5:36AM PST

The McAfee "Stinger" tool has been updated 2 or 3 times in the last week and there have been 4 virus defintion DAT revisions in the last 4 or 5 days which were applied to the Virus Scan program. The "virus contest" is bringing up new variants daily.

Hope this helps.

Grif

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Re:Yep, McAfee's Been Doing The Same Thing
Mar 5, 2004 6:37AM PST

thanks for the info, i hope this ends soon, because every day the little norton icon in my taskbar starts flashing.it gets irritating

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(NT) Nortons really earning their money these days.
Mar 5, 2004 2:55PM PST

aaaaaaaa