[WEB4LIB] Re: [Fwd: Norton expired - case #33533]

[Lewis, Erik]

Install windows scripting host, the very feature that enables a blue million
viruses to fight viruses!  That is insane.

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Higgs [mailto:dkh2 at po.cwru.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 7:58 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: [Fwd: Norton expired - case #33533]


Additionally, the NAV2001 LiveUpdate from last night is very large, you may 
have to run LiveUpdate a second time to get all of it.  Last nights LU 
includes a patch that checks scripting viruses. You will be required to 
have installed IE 3.0 or later (Recommended IE5.x ) and the Microsoft 
Scripting Host (ships with IE5.x), and it requires a reboot.

Keith

At 01:55 PM 12/3/2001 -0800, D.S.P. Popeck wrote:
> > For my personal copy, that subscription fee was $3.95/year, which did
not
> > strike me as particularly burdensome--after all, they're spending
serious
> > money keeping up with viri and improving detection methods. Of course,
the
> > institutional price may be a lot higher...(I wouldn't know.)
>
>FYI: Norton has stopped live update support for Norton 2000 and earlier.
One
>can go to the Symantec site and download the update. Many Gates users 
>shoudl be
>patched up sufficiently to appear to be NAV 2001 to Live Update. The new
>subscription scheme will be $20 per year unless what I read was inaccurate.
We
>used NAV in the past so we knew about the yearly fees. What is worse in our
>view is that the support for plugins and even NT itself is dwindling. For
>example, the newest Windows Media Player does not support NT. To update
>drivers, you'll need to log in as exec, play the video that doesn't work
and
>then wait for your version of WMP (probably 6.4) to download the needed 
>codecs.
>The codecs will be available in other profiles after that procedure. In
other
>words, there is a lot that they don't tell you. To be fair, tech support is
>good and sometimes even sympathetic. It would have nice to have been given
an
>OS that they weren't abandoning.
>
>An aside - Any Gates PC library tech that wants to join up for an
information
>exchange or to perhaps set up a mailing list should just email me.
>
>DSP Popeck
>Madison Library
>Lakewood, Ohio USA
>
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