Very large VirusDefs folder

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Hello all,

 

I saw several posts related to my problem, but never found a satisfactory answer.

 

My C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\VirusDefs folder has now reached a size of 973 Mb. I'm attaching a screenshot of its content:

 

virusdefs.JPG

 

My Symantec Antivirus version is 10.0.2.2000. My LiveUpdate version is 2.6.18.0. I'm using Windows XP.

 

Anyone knows a way to make this virus definitions folder smaller?

 

Thanks,

 

Romain

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Hello, and many thanks for your reply,

 

Here are two screenshots of the product I use and of LiveUpdate:

 

symantec antivirus.JPG

 

LiveUpdate.JPG

 

Do you see what these products are?

Thanks,

 

Romain

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That is an enterprise product and not really supported here. This forum is for consumer products. That said, I would be inclined to update to something more modern. I'll bet if you booted into safe mode, you could delete all of the files in that folder. Live update would then download the latest definitions.

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Something is messed up there.  You have virus definition folders from yesterday and today but your program shows it is using the definitions from October 2006

 

Hopefully it hasn't been like that for all these years.

You need to go to the Symantec business forum for support, we only support the consumer versions here.

http://www.symantec.com/connect/

 

Dave

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OK I'll ask for help on these forums. Thank you all for your replies!

 

Romain

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Hello all,

 

I saw several posts related to my problem, but never found a satisfactory answer.

 

My C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\VirusDefs folder has now reached a size of 973 Mb. I'm attaching a screenshot of its content:

 

virusdefs.JPG

 

My Symantec Antivirus version is 10.0.2.2000. My LiveUpdate version is 2.6.18.0. I'm using Windows XP.

 

Anyone knows a way to make this virus definitions folder smaller?

 

Thanks,

 

Romain