How to convert Symantec (dat) virus database into (vdb) file??

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Super Profi

Hello everybody,

I have a Symantec Corp. Edition Antivirus v. 7.01 installed.
You know, that Symantec don't update virus Database
for free anymore.
But they provide free of charge online entire computer checking.
I did it ( they upload me the enavweb.cab (size = 2.9 Mb), containin
up-to-date virus database).
What is my problem?
That enavweb.cab contains virus database as
virscan1.dat ... virscan9.dat files, but my Corp. Edition
requires Vir Database as a .vdb file.
My question:
Who knows where from could I download a free .dat to .vdb Symantec
virus database converter?
If I could do such a conversion, I get a new up-to-date virus
database for free.
Any advices, or/and links, please.

Note: My OS is Windows-98 SE
Note2: Contact me privately from my feedback web form, please:
http://www.megaone.com/suitman/contact.htm

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Hello everybody,

I have a Symantec Corp. Edition Antivirus v. 7.01 installed.
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Read the license agreement you got with your copy of Norton Antivirus
CE. You may not like it, but by installing it you agreed to it.
You know, that Symantec don't update virus Database
for free anymore.
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Oh wah.
But they provide free of charge online entire computer checking.
I did it ( they upload me the enavweb.cab (size = 2.9 Mb), containin
up-to-date virus database).
What is my problem?
That enavweb.cab contains virus database as
virscan1.dat ... virscan9.dat files, but my Corp. Edition
requires Vir Database as a .vdb file.
My question:
Who knows where from could I download a free .dat to .vdb Symantec
virus database converter?
If I could do such a conversion, I get a new up-to-date virus
database for free.
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That's true...but you'd still be the world's biggest cheap ass. ;-)
Any advices, or/and links, please.
Note: My OS is Windows-98 SE
Note2: Contact me privately from my feedback web form, please:
http://www.megaone.com/suitman/contact.htm
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So let me get this straight, you want your virus definitions for free,
and you want advice on how to get them for free, and you don't even
want to read the newsgroups to which you're posting your question for
the response, but would rather have people contact you on a web form.

Now _that's_ an entitlement mentality!

I doubt your hunt for a convoluted virus definition converter widget
for commercially licensed software will be something you're likely to
find, but I do suspect that Grisoft's AVG antivirus free edition may
be something that is both effective and respects your stranglehold on
your wallet:
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php

Keeping up with malware takes a great deal of work for these
companies, and I hardly think it unreasonable for them to charge for
that work on a periodic basis and to make a profit doing so.

Best Regards,
 
Todd H. said:
(e-mail address removed) (Super Profi) writes:

Now _that's_ an entitlement mentality!
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That's a very common trait around here.
Keeping up with malware takes a great deal of work for these
companies, and I hardly think it unreasonable for them to charge for
that work on a periodic basis and to make a profit doing so.
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Indeed.
 
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