ugraders? i ran the vista advisor and it said that this version was not compatible (at least for now anyway). is any ncsu itd person here? thanks.

11/28/2006 10:26:33 PM

didn't you hear? vista won't need antivirus

11/28/2006 10:42:24 PM

I'm not from ITD, but in general, the university renews contracts (yearly??) for any software they sell or license to students. This includes Symantec Antivirus. They will DEFINITELY find a way to get appropriate antivirus software out to students for Vista ... they really don't want every new machine that comes on campus to be infested with stuff because of silly things like contract issues.

11/29/2006 3:49:34 AM

when is vista going to be released anyways?

11/29/2006 6:58:11 AM

January 30th

11/29/2006 8:51:23 AM

i assume that symantec version 10 will be compatible. if that's the case, yes, we'll have it.

11/29/2006 10:20:30 AM

did it say SAV10 was not compatible or were you still running SAV9?

11/29/2006 11:45:33 AM

Quote :

"will the itd offer an upgrade of norton for vista"

Eventually, yes.

11/29/2006 12:48:14 PM

^^ i am running sav9

you should run the windows vista advisor yourself

here is the link :

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor/default.mspx

11/29/2006 7:10:33 PM

http://www.ncsu.edu/antivirus/install/SAV10-Installation.html

11/29/2006 7:13:56 PM

ah thanks!

i will install and run the advisor again

11/29/2006 7:18:30 PM

Quote :

" Symantec AntiVirus Symantec Corporation 10.1.4981 Microsoft T his program might have minor compatibility issues after upgrading to Windows Vista. For more information, go to the vendor's website. "

11/29/2006 11:36:34 PM

Hi folks:

In short, yes, we will support versions of Windows that are supported by Symantec. They have some test versions of SAV 10 that work okay with Windows Vista, and we're testing them now.

Please stay tuned to our antivirus website for details and availability:

http://www.ncsu.edu/antivirus

If you have any additional questions, please PM me, or e-mail me at ed_lee@ncsu.edu. Thanks!

11/30/2006 3:41:32 PM

SAV 10.2 will support Vista. It hasn't been released yet, but is expected soon. For more info, see http://www.symantec.com/vista/sav-vista.html.

12/2/2006 12:20:44 AM

And just to be clear, you'll download this directly from ITD, not from Symantec. Again, let me know if you have any questions.

12/2/2006 7:33:10 AM

bttt. For those interested, we'll be releasing SAV 10.2 for Windows Vista on Wednesday, after 12:00 pm.

Check our website (http://www.ncsu.edu/antivirus) for details at that time. Complete instructions for Windows Vista will be available, and I highly encourage folks to read them carefully before installing. There are a couple of potential gotchas that you will need to know about.

Let me know if you have any questions.

1/22/2007 7:26:24 PM

i never understood why the link for sav10 wasn't listed on any page

1/23/2007 1:50:47 PM

^ indeed

1/23/2007 2:00:50 PM

It's not been listed prominently because we've had some ongoing concerns about it's memory usage. We've also seen some of our peer institutions (such as UNC) have had some security problems with older versions of SAV 10.

Rather than put students and staff at risk, we felt it'd be more prudent to wait until Symantec had the chance to iron out some of the problems with their product.

We're more comfortable with more recent releases of SAV 10, so we're starting to encourage it's general use.

When it comes to desktop security, we'd rather be a little cautious and sure-footed. Thanks.

1/23/2007 2:00:59 PM

^ i was just curious...i'll be sure to let you know if 10.2 causes me problems

1/23/2007 2:04:55 PM

Well, just to be clear, 10.2 will currently only work with Windows Vista. Symantec hasn't released 10.2 for any other versions of Windows thus far.

1/23/2007 2:21:30 PM

uh oh...i just installed it on xp

i haven't restarted yet, though

THIS IS WHY IT'S NOT ON THE FRONT PAGE

[Edited on January 23, 2007 at 2:28 PM. Reason : .]

1/23/2007 2:27:49 PM

bttt. The new antivirus site is live.

http://www.ncsu.edu/antivirus

1/24/2007 12:47:45 PM

looks great!

1/24/2007 12:53:27 PM

it does look good...easy to use, makes sense...kudos

1/24/2007 3:56:21 PM