CONFIGURING AND UPDATING SYMANTEC ANTIVIRUS

If you have successfully installed Symantec AntiVirus you should see the yellow mouse icon in the system tray (on the bottom right of the screen in Figure 1. The next steps will take you through the steps to configure the AntiVirus product to schedule LiveUpdate to run automatically every day before we do this; however, we need you to look at the LiveUpdate screen carefully. If you have installed Symantec successfully, you will see the yellow mouse icon in the system tray. Click on this icon and look at the Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition screen (Figure 1). In the middle of this screen you will see the installed versions for both the Program (the Symantec software) and the virus definition file (the virus definitions which Symantec is using to look for viruses on your computer). As new viruses are created, Symantec updates the virus definition files, and sometimes the Symantec software, to protect you. You may be told that if you are not running a certain version of the software and the virus definition files, you need to run LiveUpdate. The way to check what versions you are running is by looking at the screen in Figure 1.

Let’s assume that you are not sure if Symantec has updated the virus definition files properly or you receive a warning and want to be sure you have the latest virus definition files. The best way to do this is to manually update the virus definition files.

To manually update the virus definition files, click on the Symantec yellow mouse in the system tray and then click on LiveUpdate (Figure 1). You will get the Virus Protection Update screen. Be sure you are updating to the Internet and click next (Figure 9). Symantec will check you computer and update as necessary. If new virus definition files are available they will be downloaded to your computer (Figure 10). You will get the completion screen (Figure 11) when the process is done.

Figure 1 - Successful installation of Symantec AntiVirus and LiveUpdate

Figure 2 - Configuring and scheduling LiveUpdate

Figure 3 - Configure LiveUpdate

Figure 4 - Live Update Configuration, Express Mode

Figure 5 - Schedule Updates

Figure 6 - Enable scheduled automatic updates

Figure 7 - Advanced Schedule Options

Figure 8 - Scheduled virus definition updates

Figure 9 - Manual update of virus definition files

Figure 10 - Updating virus definition files

Figure 11 - Virus definition updates completed