Norton Updates

[roddy32]

Norton AntiVirus™ 2008

Antivirus software: Block viruses and spyware with advanced protection

Features
• Improved performance delivers faster scans NEW
• One click access to expert support NEW
• Works quietly in the background. NEW
• Network mapping provides a view of your home network. NEW
• Detects and removes spyware and viruses
• Blocks spyware and worms automatically
• Anti-virus protection for email and instant messaging
• Prevents virus-infected emails from spreading
• Rootkit detection finds and removes hidden threats
• Includes protection updates and new product features as available throughout the renewable service period *

Product Info: Norton AntiVirus™ 2008

[hayc59]

Virus definitions for Norton 2008 and newer are updated 3 times a day.
Virus definitions for Norton 2006 and 2007 products are updated daily.
Virus definitions for Norton 2005 and earlier products are updated weekly.

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/share...005092309590213

Note added February 15, 2009

Recently Symantec has partnered with ask.com who have a very long history of creating adware/spyware programs. Supposedly they have cleaned up their act but that remains to be seen.

Partnership announcement
http://www.symantec.com/about/news/r...id=20090203_01

This thread at CoU (Calendar of Updates) which has a huge ammout of posts about this and other vendors that have done the same with ask.com. The thread started in August of 2008 with certain vendors and now Symantec has also been added. CoU has already stopped posting updates for these vendors. There are also many resources in the same thread which show the history of ask.com.
http://www.calendarofupdates.com/upd...opic=16253&hl=

Another link from a noted expert on this
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2009...bar-again.html

The program proposed for this is Norton 360 at the time of this note and not NAV which is what we post updates for but that may change over time. We are going to keep posting these updates but ONLY because many of our members use NAV. We wanted to inform people though about this suspect behavior from Symantec and to be careful with both this and other vendors that are resorting to this behavior.

Thanks from your updates staff.

[Jasper]

Weekly Updates released 7/28/2010

Norton AntiVirus for Mac Defs released 7/28/2010

Symantec AntiVirus for Handhelds Defs released 7/26/2010
http://www.symantec.com/business/sec...efinitions.jsp

[roddy32]

Multiple Daily Updates
Symantec Endpoint Protection 11
Norton AntiVirus 2008 and newer
Virus Definitions created 7/30/2010
Virus Definitions released 7/30/2010
Defs Version: 120730b
Sequence Number: 113307
Extended Version: 7/30/2010 rev. 2
Total Detections (Threats & Risks): 7585706
http://www.symantec.com/business/sec...load/index.jsp

[roddy32]

Daily Updates
Symantec AntiVirus
Norton AntiVirus 2006/2007
Virus Definitions created 7/30/2010
Virus Definitions released 7/30/2010
Defs Version: 120730b
Sequence Number: 113307
Extended Version: 7/30/2010 rev. 2
Total Detections (Threats & Risks): 7585706
http://www.symantec.com/business/sec...load/index.jsp