Helen Read wrote:
> At 08:44 AM 6/2/2006, you wrote:
>
>
>> There is also a /pull/ update mechanism available to SAV clients 
>> (this is the Live Update feature that you are familiar with).  SAV 
>> will attempt to perform a LiveUpdate once per day, instead of simply 
>> waiting for push updates.  Unmanaged clients have this as their only 
>> update option.  
>
> While we are on the subject, I have the unmanaged SAV on my desktop PC 
> at home (I have not yet installed the patched version there). I can't 
> get cable or DSL at my house, so I'm dealing with (the world's 
> slowest) dial-up. Unfortunately, SAV does not dial-in and update 
> itself, nor does it try to update when I'm online doing something 
> else. The only way I can get SAV to update is to open up the client 
> and *manually* tell it to do a LiveUpdate. Needless to say, I don't 
> remember to do this very often; XP only notifies me when the virus 
> definitions are a month old, at which point I do a manual LiveUpdate.
>
> I think LiveUpdate used to work automatically with some past 
> version(s) of SAV, but it hasn't been working properly for quite some 
> time. I'm also having issues with BOINC software not dialling in 
> automatically to upload/download work units (it used to), yet 
> Firefox/Thunderbird do dial iback up automatically if they are running 
> and I get disconnected.
>
> HPR
>

I have no insight into your Firefox/Thunderbird issues at this time.  
Concerning SAV, though, you can easily enable automatic updates is they 
have been deactivated.  To do this, start the SAV console by going to 
start->all programs->symantec client security->symantec antivirus.  Go 
to the "File" menu, select "Schedule Updates".

I thought Scheduled Updates were enabled by default on unmanaged 
systems, but I suppose our buddies may have changed that behavior in 
more recent builds.

-Greg