Advertisement

11.19.2004 at 07:16AM PST, ID: 21213278
[x]
Attachment Details
[x]
The Solution Rating System

With so many solutions, how can you tell which solutions are most likely to help you and which ones are not? To provide you with a tool to use, we rate our solutions based on various elements that most accurately determine if a solution is a quality solution. To explain what factors affect the solution rating, here are the elements we take into consideration when formulating our solution rating.

  • The Grade of the Solution
  • The Zone Rank of the Expert Providing the Solution
  • The Number of Author and Expert Comments
  • The Number of Experts Contributing
  • The Feedback of the Community

Your Input Matters
Because of the way the system is set up, the most important variable in this equation is you. As a member of Experts Exchange, you are able to cast your vote on the quality of the solutions in regard to how complete, accurate, helpful and easy to understand each solution is. When you provide your feedback, each rating is adjusted accordingly. So, if you see a solution that has a poor rating that you think is a good solution, let us know by rating it. As you do, the rating will be adjusted and will become more accurate for other members of our site.

If you have any suggestions that you would like to make for our rating system, please ask a question in the Suggestions Zone of Community Support.

Thank you!

8.0

Virus Definitions not updating on Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition 9.0 clients

Asked by matthewcapstick in Windows Network Security

Tags: , , , ,

Hi all,

We are upgrading from NAV 7.6 to Symantec AntiVirus (SAV) 9.0 here at work. I have been rolling the new clients out from our brand new server (using NT client install), running SAV 9.0. It is our only SAV server and therefore is running as a Primary server. Now, we are rolling out to XP SP1a machines, NT SP6a machines, 2000 machines - servers, workstations the lot. Most are working absolutely fine but some are having problems. I am experiencing two problems but this question is specifically about the clients that are failing to recieve virus definitions updates from the server.

The failing clients are a mixture of XP, 2000, NT and are all on different hardware so I can find no similarities there. They are all picking up their policies from the server and are displaying our customised message that pops up when the virus definitions get out of date so it's strange that they don't see there is a virus update too.

Some of the clients are just keeping the virus definitions that were part of the install (13th Feb 2004) but some seem to have picked up an update but then stopped picking any further ones up.

As I said, most clients are fine but a few are having trhese problems.

What is even more concerning is that on the PCs with the problem I've uninstalled SAV through add&remove programs and even done it manually from the Symantec manual uninstall document but each time I reinstall it those PCs have the same problem. I'm losing hair quickly!

Can anybody advise me on this? It's very frustrating as you can imagine as the Symantec site doesn't appear to be very useful for this problem.

This is an urgent request, unfortunately for me

Many thanks!

Matt
Start Free Trial
[+][-]11.20.2004 at 11:58AM PST, ID: 12635306

At Experts Exchange, members can ask their questions to thousands of technology professionals, also known as Experts. Experts compete and collaborate to answer those questions by leaving comments like this one.

Start your 14-day free trial to view this Expert Comment or ask the Experts your question.

 
[+][-]11.22.2004 at 12:59AM PST, ID: 12642543

Often, when Experts are collaborating with members who have asked questions, they will request additional information about the problem. Askers respond with an author comment like this one.

Start your 14-day free trial to view this Author Comment or ask the Experts your question.

 
[+][-]11.22.2004 at 01:17AM PST, ID: 12642641

View this solution now by starting your 14-day free trial. Setting up your free trial is quick, easy, and secure. We will return you to this solution, unlocked, when you're done.

 

About this solution

Zone: Windows Network Security
Tags: symantec, updating, antivirus, definitions, corporate
Sign Up Now!
Solution Provided By: TJworld
Participating Experts: 1
Solution Grade: A
 
 
 
Loading Advertisement...
20081112-EE-VQP-43