PA
Wed Jul 23 10:31:39 PDT 2008
Guess my CrystalBall© wasn't working very good, was it? <eg> Perhaps you
should have mentioned LiveUpdate, not "automatic updates."
Contact Symantec Support if you need further assistance, Len.
LenC wrote:
> Thank you for your reply. Actually, I was mistaken. The hourly messages
> related to Norton Internet Security. Apparently this program does check
> for
> updates hourly when you use its pfishing protection, which I do. I'm not
> sure why it does this so frequently, but it does.
>
> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
>> Such behavior is not unusual if (1) the machine's not connected to the
>> internet or (2) Automatic Updates cannot reach the MS servers (for
>> whatever
>> reason).
>> --
>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
>> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
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>>
>> LenC wrote:
>>> I have automatic updates set to check daily for updates and to download
>>> them
>>> automatically. I noticed in eventvwr that windows checks for updates
>>> every
>>> hour all day long - every day. Should it be doing that? I would have
>>> assumed
>>> it would check one time each day at the time specified.