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Symantec announces OS X support for NPF, NAV

updated 08:10 am EDT, Tue June 12, 2001

 
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Symantec today announced OS X support for its Norton Personal Firewall 1.02 (NPF) security application and Norton AntiVirus 7.0 (NAV) virus protection application. The free updates are available via the LiveUpdate mechanism download the new firewall application or via ftp. (The updates only run on Mac OS X 10.0 or later.) [NPF: 3.2MB, NAV: 5.5MB]


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    VISE Problem

    The VISE Installer quits before installing. I have had this happen with other carbon VISE based installer on a few of my OS X boxes. What's up with this? It SUCKS. Moreover NAV can't be installed via classic.

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    No Problem

    Just installed the updates. Both worked fine first time.

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    LiveUpdate...

    I have tried using LiveUpdate but it connects and tells me that my definitions (of 5/17/2001) are up to date. The latest release is 6/7.

    Any ideas? Anyone else get LiveUpdate to work?

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    Can't download updates

    I always get an error message: "Unable to read from socket, connection reset by peer." What the h*** does this mean?

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    Unable to read from socke

    That this thing is a pure vapporware. Even the press release is not available.

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    Sucks

    NAV installed in OSX, but the live updater says i got the latest definition (7th of May, huh!).
    NPF is even worse, I can't install at all. I already installed version 1.0, but still stupid installer ask me to install it.
    What da heck is this?

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    Confusing As h***

    I've spent a little bit of time westling with the update, and here's how it works. It's a little confusing -- and definitely could have used some documentation.

    1) Boot under OS 9, and run LiveUpdate under OS 9. This will install (update) N-Utils 6.0.2, N-Antivirus 7.0.2, and LiveUpdate 1.6.7. I presume Personal Firewall too, but I don't have it.

    These are all CLASSIC applications. I assume that they improve compatibility with OS-X, but they WILL NOT RUN under OS-X natively. N-Utils will not run at all, Antivirus and LiveUpdate will only run in classic emulation under OS-X.

    2) THEN, re-boot into OS-X. Then you have to go to Symantec's website and get OS-X NATIVE versions of N-Antivirus 7.0.2 and Live Update 1.6.7. While they have the same version number -- they are different pieces of software. They lack a number of features that are in the classic versions.

    3) This will leave you with two separate programs for N-Utils and Live Update (and Firewall most likely), but all with the same version number. One each for OS-X -- one each for Classic.

    Confusing as all h*** -- but they seem to work once you go through this effort. If anyone has found anything else, I'd be curious.

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    What if you have no 9.1?

    I have no 9.1 partition on my hard drive at all. I have only OSX. What should I do then?

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    NPF

    I dowloaded and upgraded NPF to OSX and loaded it. It seems to be working, though it's not registering any access attempts to my computer, and I thought I would have had some by now. The self test shows it to be working. I'll keep checking it.. at least i was able to download and update.

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    NPF needed fsck!!

    NPF couldn't update on 9.1. The live updater says that an error occurs due to wrong file was selected something blar blar.
    NAV was installed on OS X, but no auto virus check.
    Also, I was told that NPF for OS X doesn't have a self test for the my ip, which is quite annoying for a powerbook user.
    This means I have to update manually when I change the location manager.

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