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Installing Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus
Other recommendations
To take full advantage of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus's automatic update
features, you should have an Internet connection, either through your
local-area network, or via a high-speed modem and an Internet service
provider.
Preparing to install Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus
Note which type of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus distribution you have, then
follow the corresponding steps to prepare your files for installation.
• If you downloaded your copy of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus from the
Network Associates website, from a server on your local network, or from
another electronic service, make a new, temporary folder on your hard
disk, then use WinZip, PKZIP, or a similar utility to extract the Dr
Solomon's Anti-Virus installation files to that temporary folder. You can
download the necessary utilities from most online services.
• If your copy of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus came on a CD-ROM, insert that
disc into your computer's CD-ROM drive.
If you inserted a CD-ROM, you should see a Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus
welcome image appear automatically. To install Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus
immediately, click Install, then skip to
Setup. If the welcome image does not appear, or if you are installing Dr
Solomon's Anti-Virus from files you downloaded, start with
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IMPORTANT: If you suspect that your computer has a virus,
download the Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus installation files onto a
computer that is not infected. Install the copy onto the uninfected
computer, then use the Emergency Disk utility to make a disk that
you can use to boot the infected computer and remove the virus. To
learn more, see
IMPORTANT: Because Setup installs some Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus
files as services on Windows NT Workstation v4.0 and Windows 2000
Professional systems, you must log in to your system with Administrator
rights to install this product. To run Setup on Windows 95 or
Windows 98, you do not need to log in with any particular profile or
rights.
"If you suspect you have a virus..." on page
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