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by Anonymous User on Mon Dec 06, 2004 at 04:16:19 PM PDT

You're not as protected as you think you are. Occasionally, the AV program itself needs to be updated as virus-writers find holes & make new hooks into the OS that get around the AV program (especially if it's constantly scanning). Definitions only tell the AV program what to look for--but if the AV program is incapable of finding the problem, then it'll ignore the problem--without you knowing.

This is the real danger of Auto-LiveUpdate (at least with NAV 2003). It doesn't download program updates, just definition updates. My guess is that since it assumes the program's running (whether the background scanner's on or not) it would need a reboot to update NAV itself--and that's just not customer-friendly... Why it's worse to download the updates automatically and queue up the update for the next time you reboot vs. not downloading them until you do a full LiveUpdate is absurd...

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