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Plus, lately it's been every day to every 3 days, but it's not consistently everyday...
Trust me... it's every day... I work very closely with Symantec and the Intelligent Updater is updated every day almost like clockwork. visit www.sarc.com for a week and you'll see what I mean..
I appreciate that idea behind "if we tell people they'll remember to update" and obviously the same applies to spyware/Trojan detector software, browser popup killers, etc. but it reads like a broken record..
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I for one, do not run the auto-update service for it (saving CPU cycles for other tasks, nor taskschedulers period
I find it odd that you'd sacrifice security over a few CPU cycles. Totally your choice but when we're dealing with AV software, I'd happily have mine checking every hour for the cost of a few measly CPU cycles.
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even if your subscription runs out after a year after you install it, you can still update it using this manually downloaded "intelligent updater" program
Actually, this doesn't work now with a lot of older versions of NAV (prior to and including vers. 6 from memory) since the def sets in all forms now are supposed to detect these old versions and fail to update them.
Anyway... my point was always that I certainly support keeping people vigilant, but for something like this which IS updated daily, I think it's a bit over the top. You may as well just create a popup window that once a week presents a reminder to:
1) Update AV products
2) Run Windows Update
3) Update Trojan/Spyware tools
4) Update your personal firewall software
