Norton asking to update definitions every restart

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Hi. I've recently started having this problem with Norton. Everytime I fire up my PC it tells me that my definitions as they are out of date. I update and then... oops everythings all up to date. I have reinstalled it and actually reinstalled vista and it still keeps doing it everytime I restart the PC. Is there a reason for this?

Also since reinstalling VISTA my boot up times have been a lot slower. What might take 25 seconds now takes 40. I don't know why this is either..
 
Get rid of it, something like free Avast would be just as good. Although there's plenty more to chose from. Avast is just what I'm using at the moment.
 
Yep I'd agree with avast too.
I used to pay for McAfee -I know it's not norton but I used to swear by Mcafee (basically a paid a-virus ) and used to think it was the dogs danglies and the only good a-virus is a paid one but I was blown away by avast and it's free. The best a-virus I've used.

:)
 
Will give avast a go.

The other thing is my hard drive seems to never shut up either. I wonder perhaps because i'm just after doing a vista install.
 
It's the vista indexing -uses hard drive a lot at the start (to set up the index files) but after a while once it's indexed it's used a lot less.
 
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Which Norton is it?


Norton uses next to no resources at all, not more and other Virus protection programs out there, gone are the days of Norton being a system hog the software now is very impressive.
 
norton 2008. I'm giving avast a whirl at the moment. It's found a couple of things already that Norton missed. and I mopped up with lavasoft :p
 
Yeah, Avast is good. A couple of things you might want to do, if you don't have a screensaver then right click on the "i" icon in the notification area and set it to Generate VRDB when idle. You may also want to disable the annoying sounds that it makes when it completes an update. Right click on the "a" in the notification area, then Program Settings, Sounds and tick the box, clicking ok after that. Also, don't forget to register and input the code if you haven't already.

Also make sure Norton is completely uninstalled, running two Anti-Virus programs at the same time isn't a good idea.
 
Fothsn said:
Norton uses next to no resources at all, not more and other Virus protection programs out there, gone are the days of Norton being a system hog the software now is very impressive.
Click to expand...

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well said :)

i have used norton since norton 2005 and i'm using 2008 now too and i still recommend norton to anyone who asks what protections to to use (each to thier own i suppose)

My wife has norton 2007 on her laptop and she has never had a problem with that either.

As for your problem,You could always try updating live update manually.
Download version 3.4 from their site :)

Hope this helps :)
 
Live update is now happy. Hard drive isn't seeking so much now too when idle. One thing is my cpu pattern when idle. It seems to have some regular process which goes to 50-70% of CPU every 5-10 seconds on what looks to be a cycle (WHEN IDLE)

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Is this part of vista? Based on processes on time in question it looks to be something called SearchIndexer.exe

BTW I only just installed vista 2 hours ago if that matter
 
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apparently it indexes all files on a system. Given I've just installed about 15-20 programs back onto my PC can I take this as being normal behaviour? How long can I expect it to persist? I guess it stops after everything is indexed.
 
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Yeah it's normal, it's indexing all the files on the system so that they can be found almost instantly using the search. One of the many improvements over XP. It will settle down after you've been running vista for a few days, once it completes indexing.
 
You say avast found some files that Norton didn't and you say that live update is now working properly.

So it looks like you're going to be trying norton again with Avast disabled and see how you go?
 
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