Norton Help

You need to check your virus definitions from time to time. If you are on the UNC network, in today's environment, your virus definitions should automatically update every day. Norton Antivirus is available on the campus site license. It is the software of choice for the GCRC and the only one specifically discussed here. Many other softwares have either an autoupdate mechanism or you can go to there web site and download updates and manually install them. If you have questions about other software, send an email to gcrc-sys-mgr@med.unc.edu. We'll try to help, if we can.

Check Your Virus Definition Dates

Right click on the yellow Norton shield on the right end of your task bar, near the clock When you mouse over it, you'll see the name of the application. Select Open Norton. You'll get the Norton Window.

Look in the bottom center for the Virus Definition File Date. This date is generally not more than a week old. If it is click on the Live Update and follow the prompts. It may tell you that there is no update available, which means the one you have is current.

Schedule Live Updates

To check / set the schedule, pull down the file menu and select Schedule. Set the schedule for a day of the week and time of day that you are normally at work. On Win98 machines, it will not update if you are not logged in. Win2000 machines should update, if they are turned on, even if you are not logged in.

Scan YOUR Hard Drive

If you have weird activity, and suspect a virus gnome is tromping through the entrails of your compture, give it a scan. This uses Norton Antivirus, free to University staff, so that's what we support. If you have other software it will have similar choices.

Scan YOUR Hard Drive

Right click on the yellow Norton shield on the right end of your task bar, near the clock When you mouse over it, you'll see the name of the application.

Select Open Norton. You'll get the Norton Window.

Please let us know if these instructions are hard to understand or have errors. Thanx.