Norton System Works 2001 can't find virus definition dates

[Herkulese]

I have Norton System Works 2001 installed on 3 machines in my house, and of the three, the Ak31A / Duron 700 is the only one of the three that dose this:

I have installed the latest virus definition files and when ever I boot up, after windows has put up the desk-top, I get 2 little message boxes.

The 1st one says that the Virus Definition Dates can not be found.
The 2nd one says that the Virus Definition Monitor can not be found.

Does anyone know what this is telling me?

 

[Herkulese]

Yes, I do have NAV from System Works 2001 installed and running.

I downloaded the latest Definition files from Symantic's web-site and, after the install, a message box came up saying that a program was found that coud use these files and was updated.

I still get these two message boxes.

 

[Muse]

<< I have Norton System Works 2001 installed on 3 machines in my house, and of the three, the Ak31A / Duron 700 is the only one of the three that dose this:

I have installed the latest virus definition files and when ever I boot up, after windows has put up the desk-top, I get 2 little message boxes.

The 1st one says that the Virus Definition Dates can not be found.
The 2nd one says that the Virus Definition Monitor can not be found.

Does anyone know what this is telling me? >>

I'm using the same program. What I would do is uninstall Norton Systemworks, reboot and reinstall Systemworks and then do liveupdate, following the instructions carefully. Allow a reboot between each time you run Liveupdate and keep doing it until you get the message that says that you don't have anymore updates to install. I've always found that things work fine after that. BTW, were I you, I would watch the installation carefully and make sure that the only thing that runs automatically at boot time is your Norton Antivirus. Make sure that everything else is installed configured to be run Manually.

 

[Herkulese]

Thanks MUSE,

BTW, I am on a dial up connection, and typically download at a remote loacation and bring them home for the instal.

How long would a Live-Update take at a connection speed of approx 44kbaud?

 

[Muse]

<< Thanks MUSE,

BTW, I am on a dial up connection, and typically download at a remote loacation and bring them home for the instal.

How long would a Live-Update take at a connection speed of approx 44kbaud? >>

I don't know how long. I bet you could do the whole process in less than an hour. What you COULD do is download the virus definitions at the remote location and bring them to your local machine and update your virus definitions from that before you do your liveupdate. Then there would be very little for liveupdate to download and it would go pretty quickly, is my thinking.

 

[Herkulese]

Muse,

"What you COULD do is download the virus definitions at the remote location and bring them to your local machine and update your virus definitions from that before you do your live update. Then there would be very little for live update to download and it would go pretty quickly, is my thinking."<B>
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Yes that makes a lot of sense. That is how I do the definitions and since the latest ones are on my system right now, I should give the live update a try.

BTW, I did get the "Can not find.........." windows to dissappear by simply reinstalling the program.

I will still run the live update, though, just to make sure that I have all of the latest program updates.

Thanks again,
Herkulese