Compatibility Reports for Norton AntiVirus 2003-07 Definitions

Reported by Anonymous


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Windows Vista 32 Bit
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Reported by Jim Robinson


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Windows 2000
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I am running a W2K system with all of the latest updates available from Microsoft software updates.

I am running Norton Anivirus Corporate Edition Gold, which was on my laptop when I acquired it from the company in 2002. It was automatically Updated and new virus definition files were installed through 2006 off of the company web site. The company IP address was changed then and I was unable get any more updates.

In November of 2008 I used the Norton Antivirus, 2003 to 2007, updater and virus definition files to the authors web site on MajorGeeks.com to upgrade and install the latest updates and definitions. This install worked perfectly, I again installed, using the link to the author's web site, the 20090211-xx-i32.exe file and it was successful. I downloaded and installed the 20090304-xx-i32.exe, after that my Realtime File Protection would not Enable, along with errors reported in the system start up log. The scheduled and manual scans would start and complete properly. The icon in the system tray shower '!' over it. In an attempt to correct this problem, I downloaded 20090310-017-i32.exe today. Now the installer says that there is no Norton Antivirus to install the definitions to using the version 4 installer.

The Norton AntiVirus Display Lists the following software, scan engine and definition file;

Program: 7.51.847
Scan Engine: 4.0.1.6
Definition File
version: 110304q
date: 3/4/2009

I am now running without Realtime file protection. This is bothersome because there are many viruses that come along with Web Pages, so far none have infected my system according to the manual scans, but it may be only a matter of time.