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Old 12-28-2001, 12:23 PM
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Re: Just because it's running...

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Originally posted by Beav
...doesn't mean it's up to date. I have Norton AV configured to run al the time and to auto update evrything. I've found out in the past that it's a good idea to occasionally update it manually. After reading this thread this morning I remembered that I hadn't done that in a while and when all was said and done it had found three instances of Backdoor (trojan) in my system. Been there since 12/7 (must have happened while I was drinking Kamikazes... )

I guess what I'm getting at is for y'all to check for your updates manually and re-run Norton, just in case. It's been a few years since the last time I was whacked (chat room bast***) and it took about 22 hours to reload and reconfig.

Beav
Good point, Beav. Even Norton suggests when you go to update your virus sigs, even though the software says it downloaded everything, keep on clicking the update button until it says "no updates are available." I try to update once a day with all the crap going on, plus, my system automatically runs a full scan at 3 a.m. every morning.
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