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USING NORTON ANTIVIRUS 8.0 FOR MACINTOSH: RUNNING LIVEUPDATE

Installing NAV 8.0 on Mac OS 10 or 10.2

How to use NAV 8.0

  r Running LiveUpdate
r Scheduling LiveUpdate
r Scanning files
r Scheduling file scans

Installing NAV 7.0 on Mac OS 9.2 (or earlier)

How to use NAV 7.0

Using NAV 8.0: Running LiveUpdate

Virus definitions tell NAV what to look for when protecting you against malicious files. New viruses are released every day, but if NAV isn't told to watch out for these new viruses, it won't do anything about them. This is why it's so important to keep your virus definitions up to date by running LiveUpdate on regular basis. To make things easier, you can schedule Liveupdates to run automatically.

You may wish to scan your computer's files. You can also schedule scans to run automatically.

UIS recommends that you do not change the preset preferences in NAV 8.0.

Running LiveUpdate

  1. Click on Go (at the top of your screen), then click on Applications.
  1. This will open the Applications folder.
  1. Double click on the Norton AntiVirus icon.
  1. This will start the Norton AntiVirus program.

  1. Click on the LiveUpdate button.
  1. The LiveUpdate panel will pop up.
  1. Click on the Update Everything Now button.
  1. You'll may be asked to authenticate yourself.
  1. Beside Password or phrase, type the password that you use when logging into the computer.
  1. Then click on the OK button.

 
  1. The LiveUpdate program will run and may load a variety of files onto your computer. You may be asked to authenticate repeatedly.

  1. When LiveUpdate has finished running, click on the OK button.
  1. Click on the red button in the upper left-hand corner of the panel to close it.
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