About Updating Stand-Alone Computers - Symantec 10551441 - AntiVirus Corporate Edition Client Manual

10 Introducing Symantec AntiVirus
About Symantec AntiVirus
The default settings for Symantec AntiVirus provide virus and security risk
protection for your computer. However, you may want to adjust them to suit
your company's needs, to optimize system performance, and to disable options
that do not apply.
If your installation is managed by your administrator, some options may be
locked or unavailable, or may not appear at all, depending upon your
administrator's security policy. Your administrator runs scans on your
computer and can set up scheduled scans.
Your administrator can advise you as to what tasks you should perform by using
Symantec AntiVirus.
Note: Options that display a padlock icon are not available because they have
been locked by your administrator. You cannot change these options unless the
administrator unlocks them.

About updating stand-alone computers

Stand-alone computers may be connected to the Internet. In Symantec
AntiVirus documentation, the term stand-alone takes on an added dimension.
Stand-alone computers are not connected to a server; thus they do not receive
virus and security risk definitions updates from the server, and cannot be
managed by the Symantec System Center administrator program.
If you installed Symantec AntiVirus on a stand-alone computer, you are
responsible for updating the virus and security risk definitions. New definitions
files are available several times each month from Symantec. You will be alerted
when definitions files need replacing.
You can update the virus and security risk definitions files with LiveUpdate™.
LiveUpdate retrieves the new definitions files from a Symantec site, and then
replaces the old definitions files in the Symantec AntiVirus directory. A modem
or Internet connection is required.
See "Updating protection immediately with LiveUpdate" on page 35.