At 11:48 AM 6/2/2006, Greg Mackinnon wrote:
>Helen Read 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.

Firefox/Thunderbird work fine. Other apps won't dial in automatically, even 
though set to do so. I thought the auto-dial-in was just totally hosed, but 
when I installed new versions of Firefox/Thunderbird I found that they *do* 
succeed in connecting to my ISP automatically. It seems nothing else does, 
though.

>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.

Automatic updates *are* enabled; they just don't work.


HPR