Symantec Antivirus v10

[Viper187]

I live out in amish country, and noone offers broadband internet. I'm getting rather tired of downloading 15 megs worth of last year's virus defs on freakin dialup everytime I reinstall Windows and SAV10. Is there a way to backup all the virus definitions?

Edited April 21, 2007 by Viper187

[RJARRRPCGP]

I dunno. But I have good news, with Avast, the entire program is smaller than 15 MB! Also, the defs are no bigger than 1 MB, AFAIK and likely at only 512 KB or around there!

Avast is available at:

http://www.avast.com

Edited April 21, 2007 by RJARRRPCGP

[Andromeda43]

Two possibilities for you.

I've been using AVG Anti Virus for years, both FREE and Pro.

You just can't get a better FREE anti virus program, for any price.

When you first get the program there will be an upgrade.....usually a BIG one, but after that your daily updates can be as small as 50k. Even on slow Dial up, that will go by in a wink. And the dailies are automatic,,,,you won't even know its happening till its done.

After a lifetime of slow Dial Up, I just went to "Wild Blue" satellite internet.

I bought the minimal service and I get great download speeds of over 512 kbps.

I've even seen bursts of speed far in excess of that.

I download over 50 megs of software a week, and boy do I enjoy the increased speed.

Wild Blue is available anywhere in the US or Canada.

www.wildblue.net

Cheers!

Andromeda43

[Jeremy]

To answer your question, I loaded Symantec in VMware, performed an update and monitored where the updates were being downloaded to with FileMon and the location is as follows:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Symantec\LiveUpdate\Downloads\<Update file.zip>

When the updates are installed, they go to this folder:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\VirusDefs\

I hope this helps you.

Edited April 22, 2007 by Jeremy

[Viper187]

Ah, thanks. Hopefully, restoring them will be as easy as keeping a backup of that folder and copying it over next time.