{"id":1758,"date":"2009-10-13T13:56:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T17:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eso\/?page_id=1758"},"modified":"2009-10-13T13:57:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T17:57:34","slug":"updating-virus-definitions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eso\/help-support\/hardware-software\/virus-protection\/updating-virus-definitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating Virus Definitions Using LiveUpdate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have checked out a laptop, taken your office laptop home or off-campus, or would just like to manually update the virus patterns on your computer, please follow these instructions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Double-click on the Symantec Antivirus icon located in the system tray at bottom right corner next to the clock or click <strong>Start \u2192 All Programs \u2192 Symantec Client Security \u2192 Symantec AntiVirus<\/strong>. The Symantec AntiVirus dialog box appears. In the right Symantec AntiVirus window, click the LiveUpdate button.<a href=\"\/eso\/files\/2009\/07\/virus-protection-3.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-377\" src=\"\/eso\/files\/2009\/07\/virus-protection-3-419x300.gif\" alt=\"virus-protection-3\" width=\"419\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eso\/files\/2009\/07\/virus-protection-3-419x300.gif 419w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eso\/files\/2009\/07\/virus-protection-3.gif 482w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Welcome to LiveUpdate screen will appear. Click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<a href=\"\/eso\/files\/2009\/07\/virus-protection-4.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-378\" src=\"\/eso\/files\/2009\/07\/virus-protection-4-356x300.gif\" alt=\"virus-protection-4\" width=\"356\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eso\/files\/2009\/07\/virus-protection-4-356x300.gif 356w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eso\/files\/2009\/07\/virus-protection-4.gif 410w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>A window will appear informing you that the download has completed.<a href=\"\/eso\/files\/2009\/07\/virus-protection-5.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-379\" src=\"\/eso\/files\/2009\/07\/virus-protection-5-356x300.gif\" alt=\"virus-protection-5\" width=\"356\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eso\/files\/2009\/07\/virus-protection-5-356x300.gif 356w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eso\/files\/2009\/07\/virus-protection-5.gif 410w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Finish<\/strong>. Symantec AntiVirus will update the virus protection files on your computer.<a href=\"\/eso\/files\/2009\/07\/virus-protection-6.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-380\" src=\"\/eso\/files\/2009\/07\/virus-protection-6.gif\" alt=\"virus-protection-6\" width=\"272\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>For additional assistance with Symantec AntiViris, contact NetHelp at x3-7328, or after hours e-mail us at <a href=\"mailto:eso-nethelp@bu.edu\">ESO-NetHelp@bu.edu<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have checked out a laptop, taken your office laptop home or off-campus, or would just like to manually update the virus patterns on your computer, please follow these instructions: Double-click on the Symantec Antivirus icon located in the system tray at bottom right corner next to the clock or click Start \u2192 All [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1187,"featured_media":0,"parent":367,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1758\/revisions\/1760"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}