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Larry B - 04 Sep 2005 02:51 GMT

Best I can tell... (W2k SP4) the August 12 onslaught of updates killed my
Norton AV Corp Ed and WU. I have uninstalled those updates and uninstalled
NAV but now I cannot re-install NAV (Symantec Packager hangs) and WU just
scans endlessly. I was forced to uninstall NAV manually (per Symantec
instructions) as the uninstaller would hang, too. I have run AdAware, Spybot
, Trend Micro Virus (over the internet)
and the Windows Malicious Tool progs and we are clean, clean, clean.

What can I do to fix this??? Thanks, Lar

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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] - 04 Sep 2005 15:52 GMT

> Best I can tell... (W2k SP4) the August 12 onslaught of updates
> killed my Norton AV Corp Ed and WU. I have uninstalled those updates
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>
> What can I do to fix this??? Thanks, Lar

I'd check with Symantec, or a forum devoted to NAV, honestly.
I wouldn't have uninstalled any critical updates, either - there's a reason
they were written and deployed.

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Larry B - 04 Sep 2005 19:38 GMT

> > Best I can tell... (W2k SP4) the August 12 onslaught of updates
> > killed my Norton AV Corp Ed and WU. I have uninstalled those updates
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> I wouldn't have uninstalled any critical updates, either - there's a reason
> they were written and deployed.

Thanks for the response. To make matters worse, the critical updates will
not manually reinstall either!!

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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] - 05 Sep 2005 17:20 GMT

>>> Best I can tell... (W2k SP4) the August 12 onslaught of updates
>>> killed my Norton AV Corp Ed and WU. I have uninstalled those updates
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> Thanks for the response. To make matters worse, the critical updates
> will not manually reinstall either!!

Ouch. I'd check your event logs. Got backups?

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Larry B - 06 Sep 2005 04:05 GMT

> >>> Best I can tell... (W2k SP4) the August 12 onslaught of updates
> >>> killed my Norton AV Corp Ed and WU. I have uninstalled those updates
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> Ouch. I'd check your event logs. Got backups?

There's more. Our backups are rotated every 7 days.. so, long gone. Also,
NAV has been putting a ton of things on the application log like files that
cannot be accessed during a scan (after I had already added a lot of
exclusions). So, occassionally I get a message that the app log is full and
to empty it. That was done on the Aug 14th, before we knew about NAV's going
disabled. In other words, we have nada.

Basically, I apparently cannot install/uninstall anything. Maybe that is a
place to start. Thanks, Lar

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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] - 09 Sep 2005 16:31 GMT

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> There's more. Our backups are rotated every 7 days.. so, long gone.
> Also, NAV has been putting a ton of things on the application log
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> Basically, I apparently cannot install/uninstall anything. Maybe that
> is a place to start. Thanks, Lar

I think you ought to post a new message to a more relevant group, like
m.p.windows.server.general ...perhaps crosspost to m.p.win2000.general -
some 'fresh eyes' will see this and may have further suggestions.

NB: I personally like 2-week tape rotation schemes - full backup nightly.

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