Norton's Antivirus Updates

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Greeting: I am running cable whereby I am always on-line and my Norton's Antivirus has been set for automatic updates which never happens. I have to manually run it every time. Why?

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Or could it be that Ty does not have a password or the correct password in
Scheduled Tasks? And if that is the case then he's in the right place!


"Shenan Stanley" <news_helper@hushmail.com> wrote in message
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> Ty wrote:
> > Greeting: I am running cable whereby I am always on-line and my
> > Norton's Antivirus has been set for automatic updates which never
> > happens. I have to manually run it every time. Why?
>
>
> Hmmm..
> I would think you should:
>
> 1) Ask the PROPER company for help here (Symantec).
> 2) Uninstall/Reinstall Symantec AV.
>
> --
> <- Shenan ->
> --
>
>

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Your computer still needs to be turned on and any firewall permission set
for the update to run.

"Ty" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Greeting: I am running cable whereby I am always on-line and my Norton's
Antivirus has been set for automatic updates which never happens. I have to
manually run it every time. Why?

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stell wrote:
: Your computer still needs to be turned on and any firewall permission
: set for the update to run.
:
:
What part of this sentence did you NOT understand?
<snip> I am running cable whereby I am always on-line .

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"It's Only me" <NOSPAM@NOSPAM.COM> wrote in message
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> stell wrote:
> : Your computer still needs to be turned on and any firewall permission
> : set for the update to run.
> :
> :
> What part of this sentence did you NOT understand?
> <snip> I am running cable whereby I am always on-line .
>
>
If the computer is turned off it cannot connect unless it is set to turn
itself on. Programs do *not* run on a machine that is turned off. If you
meant that you leave your machine powered on 24/7 you should have said so.
There's a big difference.

Firewalls can and will block connecting to NA for the download. i.e. I don't
give NA update server rights because it continually wants to connect for
updates (even tho it is not checked to update automatically) When I want to
do a manual update I need to give it permission to act as a server.

I too am on cable and always on-line so I *do* understand.

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"It's Only me" <NOSPAM@NOSPAM.COM> wrote in message
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> stell wrote:
> : "It's Only me" <NOSPAM@NOSPAM.COM> wrote in message
> : news:%23KM8jbHMEHA.1156@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> :: stell wrote:
> ::: Your computer still needs to be turned on and any firewall
> ::: permission set for the update to run.
> :::
> :::
> :: What part of this sentence did you NOT understand?
> :: <snip> I am running cable whereby I am always on-line .
> ::
> ::
> : If the computer is turned off it cannot connect unless it is set to
> : turn itself on. Programs do *not* run on a machine that is turned
> : off. If you meant that you leave your machine powered on 24/7 you
> : should have said so. There's a big difference.
> :
> : Firewalls can and will block connecting to NA for the download. i.e.
> : I don't give NA update server rights because it continually wants to
> : connect for updates (even tho it is not checked to update
> : automatically) When I want to do a manual update I need to give it
> : permission to act as a server.
> :
> : I too am on cable and always on-line so I *do* understand.
>
> Please accept my humble apologies.
>
>
Accepted and thank you.