Ghagen wrote:
There is no way that my connection can go uninterrupted long enough (maybe 15 hours!) to go ahead with this update. The best I can do is around 160 -- 170MB before the connection drops. Since LU does not support a resume feature, it just starts over from zero when the connection is reestablished....
I have a freeware download manager that supports resuming broken downloads, so it can't be that much trouble to incorporate this feature into a piece of software.
Hi Ghagen:
I'm guessing the link the Norton support rep gave you pointed to the Intelligent Updater download page here. This is the full set of virus definitions for your Norton product (note there are different files for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows) and you can download this file to your desktop and run it to update your virus definitions - it's an offline installer so you can run it while disconnected from the Internet. Unfortunately, you have to find some way to download this 360 MB offline installer to your desktop in the first place. You might be able to use your download manager to complete any interrupted download of this large file over your dial-up connection. Since your library doesn't allow you to download this offline installer to a USB stick, I don't know what alternative you have if you don't have access to another computer with a high speed connection.
I used dial-up up until a year ago and posted some hints here on how to keep Norton up-to-date, but you're always going to have a difficult time since you don't have a laptop that you can take to a WiFi hotspot for your large downloads. Please see elsewhere's comment here in Breaker's thread titled Why Doesn't LiveUpdate Pick Up Where It Leaves Off After Being Interrupted?, as well as his final post in message # 9 of that thread about the impact large virus definition downloads during LiveUpdates have on end user system resources.
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