Symantec Live Updates

Situation: You want to determine what version of LiveUpdate is installed on your system. Solution: There are two ways to do this. From within the LiveUpdate program This is the easiest method in most cases. 1. Start your Symantec program. 2. Click LiveUpdate. 3. Click the small LiveUpdate icon on the title bar 4. What you do next depends on the results: If a dropdown menu does not appear, you have LiveUpdate version 1.5. In most cases, you will have this version only if all of the following are true: You have been running LiveUpdate successfully. You have chosen all available updates. You are using LiveUpdate on a corporate network. LiveUpdate 1.5 is still the version that has been chosen by the network administrator.

If a dropdown menu does appear, click About LiveUpdate. The version is displayed as shown in the following screen shot:

How to run LiveUpdate

Situation:
You want to know what LiveUpdate does and how to run it.

Solution:
LiveUpdate is the best way to obtain current updates to your Symantec programs and to make sure that you have current virus definitions, URL updates, firewall rules, IDS signatures, and ALE updates. There are three stages in the LiveUpdate process:

1. LiveUpdate downloads a list of available updates, matches them to the programs that you have installed, determines if any updates apply to those applications, and presents you with a list of updates that are available for you to apply.
2. It downloads the updates you select.
3. After :LiveUpdate downloads the update files, it automatically installs them.

NOTES:

·   If you downloaded a program update, you may be required to restart the computer for the update to take effect. In this case, after you restart the computer, run LiveUpdate again.

·   There is a LiveUpdate icon in the Windows Control Panel. Running LiveUpdate from the Windows Control Panel will only update LiveUpdate. No Symantec products or virus definitions will be updated by this process.

How to run LiveUpdate
If you are a home or small business user of a Symantec consumer product, it is likely that LiveUpdate version 1.6 or later installed. If you do not yet have this version, you can obtain it by running LiveUpdate, which is designed to update itself as updates become available.

Some Enterprise product system administrator require use of version 1.5.

The basic procedure for either version of LiveUpdate is the same. Only the dialog boxes that you see will differ.

.

How to run LiveUpdate 1.6 or later

1. Start your Symantec program (click Start, point to Programs, and then click the program such as Norton AntiVirus). Click the LiveUpdate icon. The LiveUpdate dialog box appears.

Home