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About the role of Symantec Security Response

How virus and security risk protection is updated

The strength behind Symantec AntiVirus is Symantec Security Response. The
increasing number of computer viruses and security risks requires great effort
to track, identify, and analyze, and to develop new technologies to protect your
computer.
Symantec Security Response researchers disassemble each virus and security
risk sample to discover its identifying features and behavior. With this
information, they develop definitions that Symantec products use to detect,
eliminate, and repair the effects of new viruses and security risks during scans.
Because of the speed at which new viruses spread, particularly over the Internet,
Symantec Security Response has developed automated software analysis tools.
With direct submissions over the Internet of infected files from your Central
Quarantine to Symantec Security Response, the time from discovery to analysis
to cure is shrinking from days to hours, and in the near future, to minutes.
Symantec Security Response researchers also research and produce
technologies to protect computers from security risks such as spyware, adware,
and hack tools.
Symantec Security Response maintains an encyclopedia that provides detailed
information about viruses and security risks. In necessary cases, they provide
information about removing or uninstalling the risk. The encyclopedia is
located on the Symantec Security Response Web site.
See "Accessing the Symantec Security Response Web site"
Your administrator determines how your virus and security risk definitions are
updated. You may not have to do anything to receive new definitions.
The LiveUpdate feature in Symantec AntiVirus can be set up by your
administrator to make sure that your virus and security risk protection remains
current. With LiveUpdate, Symantec AntiVirus connects automatically to a
special Web site, determines if your files need updating, downloads the proper
files, and installs them in the proper location.
See "Keeping virus and security risk protection current"
Introducing Symantec AntiVirus
What keeps Symantec AntiVirus protection current
on page 33.
on page 38.
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