Symantec Patches Four Critical Firewall Flaws
News Anyone who regularly runs Symantec LiveUpdate should already be protected. However, to be sure, customers should manually run Symantec LiveUpdate," Sanchidrián said. In January, Symantec plugged a gap in its LiveUpdate feature that could have...
[May 13, 2004, 13:20]
Symantec Closes NIS Back Door
News Symantec released fixes for the flaws that can be downloaded from its site, using LiveUpdate, the standard update mechanism included with the programs. Symantec issued a fix on 18 March for customers to download via LiveUpdate.
[March 22, 2004, 8:45]
Symantec Admits To LiveUpdate Security Hole
News The company is also insisting that although LiveUpdate 1.6 could be hit by a denial of service attack, "only a small percentage of a very large user base could potentially be impacted to any degree as the spoofing or redirection would, by its very...
[October 11, 2001, 12:15]
Symantec Slams The Door On Live Update Flaw
Talkback Worked fine until June when LiveUpdate refused to update. Installed Internet Security 2006 on April 1. Kept getting LU1840 .messages.and had to use "Intelligent Updater" to stay safe. Takes 7-15 minutes each time.
[August 4, 2006, 14:37]
Norton AntiVirus 2008 Definitions Update
Downloads You can renew your subscription by running LiveUpdate from within Norton AntiVirus. This definitions update is a complete replacement for any previous virus definitions set and will work with the following Symantec products:Norton AntiVirus 2008...
[August 6, 2008, 17:53]
Symantec Fixes Email-deleting Bug
News Symantec released a patch for English-language versions of the software via its Liveupdate service last week. Almost a month since its initial discovery, Symantec has issued a fix for a serious bug in its Internet security software.
[November 11, 2002, 11:25]
Symantec Flaw Putting Users At Risk
News Symantec is distributing patches to its customers through its LiveUpdate automatic update service and other mechanisms. The vulnerability can be triggered by an unauthorized remote attacker, without user interaction, by sending an e-mail containing...
[February 10, 2005, 8:30]
Symantec Slams The Door On Live Update Flaw
Talkback I used to have Norton AntiVirus, and for some reason it suddenly stopped being able to complete LiveUpdate.saying there were problems with the internet connection (the internet was fine, btw). You must allow the program "LuComServer_3_0.exe", found...
[April 22, 2006, 19:12]
Phoney Symantec Warning And 'Important!' Virus Variants
News This definition is available now via Symantec's LiveUpdate and can also be downloaded from the following web sites: http://www.symantecstore.com/AF74211/promo/ loveletter and http://www.digitalriver.com/symantec
[May 10, 2000, 8:42]
Symantec Slams The Door On Live Update Flaw
Talkback Article is "Removing LiveUpdate after Add/Remove Programs does not work". Sometimes you have to use special Symantec tools to completely remove Norton Antivirus and Norton Internet Security from the Windows Registry, even after you did add/remove...
[November 17, 2004, 17:41]
Symantec Reveals Software-updating Patents
News That means the company's LiveUpdate software can run up to four times faster than if it had to download the full virus definition. Yet incremental updates have been around for a long time, most likely for longer than the Internet has been around.
[February 8, 2001, 13:52]
Way Too Many Internal Errors!
Member Review By the time I get out the CD, uninstall, restart reinstall, restart, run LiveUpdate and restart yet again, I've wasted over an hour. I get an error message telling me to uninstall and reinstall at least once a week.
[March 16, 2004, 8:11]
Too Many Bugs
Member Review The problems with "LiveUpdate" in the 2004 editions plus extremely poor technical support makes the 2004 version a nightmare. My advice is too stay with version 2003.
[January 12, 2004, 11:19]
Great Online Features
Member Review Go through the complete install running the liveupdate and disk scan. When you install the product you must ensure that nothing else is running. Once you get it setup then it runs in the background with minimal intervention.
[February 12, 2004, 10:26]
