Norton AV Updates

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James E. Morrow said:
You are free to try sticking with Norton AV 2001 if you can
make it work. It may very well work. I've done this myself
in the past, though not with scanner this far out of date.
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I've always wondered why Symantec's LiveUpdate feature keeps working
with old versions of NAV like 2001 and 2002.

Something that's not always widely realized is that Symantec keeps
accepting licence renewal payments from people with NAV 2001/2002, so
Symantec's obligation is to keep that software up-do-date as far as
detection capability goes (and hence why LiveUpdate keeps working for
them).

If Symantec is indeed drawing the line on accepting payments for NAV
2001 license renewals, perhaps the functionality of LiveUpdate for NAV
2001 will end within the year. And the same fate is in store for NAV
2002? An alternate prediction is that they will simply not renew
licences for NAV 2001/2002 but LiveUpdate will still work for them
into the future.
 
This is very similar to what was happening to the Canadian organization
I had just posted about. Symantec classified their software as out of
date now (ver. 2001, I believe), thus, no subscription renewal.
Symantec, however, informed the organization that they could purchase
the 2004 version (I believe) as it still supports 98. When the
organization opted to do this, they were sent the wrong product twice,
and subsequently informed that they'd have to absorb the customs and
shipping charges when returning the products back to the USA. This is
what led to me needing to determine what the new a/v platform would be.
 
But will this work if Symantec is not actually supplying updated virus
signatures that work with that product? This may be what "not supported"
means
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The "Intelligent Updater" files still work with at least as old as
NAV 2000. Not sure about LiveUpdate. I did have to update
something called the "root certificate" sometime in the past
year.

Steve
 
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