I often wondered about updating. I use Norton AV and wondered if there was a way to manually download AV definitions to a hard copy if you were say planning on reformatting your drive? I know it can be down with Windows updates but, wondered about with say the AV sites, Adaware definitions etc. Anyone know? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Don" <dsw32952@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: reformating hard drive. Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:12:25 -0500 I would be very surprised to learn that an AV site had infected files available for download, so I suspect your infection came through from a different site while you were downloading the updates. I suspect that may have happened because the firewall was configured to either allow the site access to your computer or leave a port open. It is also possible something else on your computer was already infected and it called for the download of the virus. When downloading files to do a clean install it is always a good idea to either use a clean updated computer to collect the downloads and updates or at least use a clean updated computer to scan them before you install on the clean hard drive. Don Address Change Alert!!! Please delete dsw32952@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx from your address book. My new email addresses: Group/Maillist related: dsw32952@xxxxxxxxx Personal mail: dsw28705@xxxxxxxxx All other mail: dswabc@xxxxxxxxx Do YOU want a gmail account? Ask me for an invitation. To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk