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Re: Nortons Liveupdate - problem?
From: "Gregh" <chows () ozemail com au>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:13:01 +1100
Where else would Nortons be looking BUT their servers for updates? Sigh.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Levitsky" <jlevitsk () joshie com> To: <full-disclosure () lists netsys com> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:15 AM Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Nortons Liveupdate - problem?
And of course if you run Corporate Edition against an internal LiveUpdate server then none of the below applies. Most likely doesn't apply even if
you
use Symantec's servers. The scheduler is different in the CE version from the retail version. -- Joshua Levitsky, MCSE, CISSP System Engineer Time Inc. Information Technology [5957 F27C 9C71 E9A7 274A 0447 C9B9 75A4 9B41 D4D1] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregh" <chows () ozemail com au> To: "Disclosure Full" <full-disclosure () lists netsys com> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 3:33 PM Subject: [Full-disclosure] Nortons Liveupdate - problem?A lot of your customers may have your Nortons AV prog (I don't mean other Nortons products, just the anti virus scanner though this may apply to their other products, too) set to auto update when on Internet without interrupting the user which IS a good idea normally. However, a few
weeks
ago due to a stupid error on the part of a company Nortons uses, your AV prog couldn't find their update site for the day. It didn't last long
and
should have ended there. Unfortunately, I have become aware, while fixing problems for people who use Nortons, that their Nortons (2000, 2002 and 2004 versions) hadn't
updated
for the last two weeks. So, I manually MADE it update and it did so just fine. This isn't normal. Nortons usually auto updates fine and on each machine where I have noted this (5 so far, all Nortons, all the same
drop
off time), they have been without updates since that date and thus open
to
newer stuff. Bagle should start hitting hard today and if what I fear is correct, none of your Nortons users will be protected UNLESS you get
them
to open their Nortons and run your LiveUpdate manually. 5 out of 5 machines all stopped updating at the same period seems strange to me. There were 2 in one user group, 2 in another company and one friend who I do work for on his personal machine. These were 3 different sites in other words. So, do yourselves a favour. I may be wrong but if I am not wrong, your users are not protected. They MAY be protected automatically after manually updating but I am not even 100% sure of that right now. Run Liveupdate manually NOW and be sure! Greg. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html_______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- Nortons Liveupdate - problem? Gregh (Jan 19)
- Re: Nortons Liveupdate - problem? Joshua Levitsky (Jan 19)
- Re: Nortons Liveupdate - problem? Gregh (Jan 19)
- Re: Nortons Liveupdate - problem? Joshua Levitsky (Jan 19)
- Re: Nortons Liveupdate - problem? Gregh (Jan 19)
- Re: Nortons Liveupdate - problem? Joshua Levitsky (Jan 19)
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- Re: Nortons Liveupdate - problem? K_aneda (Jan 20)
- Re: Nortons Liveupdate - problem? Gregh (Jan 19)
- Re: Nortons Liveupdate - problem? Joshua Levitsky (Jan 19)
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- Re: Nortons Liveupdate - problem? Kevin Brunson (Jan 19)