Re: Last Norton Liveupdate Broke Firewall!

From: JasonL (jasolsspa_at_re.ms.move.n.com)
Date: 05/14/04 

Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 18:55:13 -0400

I've also been "paranoid" that Liveupdate (for Norton 2002) would attempt to
upgrade with packages meant for 2004. The packages available for download
seems to always have a description for Norton 2002 though. I guess between
WinXP's last critical update and Norton 2002's most recent updates,
something funky caused some files to be corrupted. At least one another
person has already posted the exact same issue today. Re-installing and
then re-downloading all the updates (and going through like four reboots for
each update, LOL) seems to have fixed it though. Now the only "problem"
(not sure if it will be a problem yet) is that Windoctor is reporting that
the file "symneti.dll" is missing. This file is apparently used by a Norton
file called "SNDSrvc.exe". The other poster that posted about Norton giving
him the same exact problem as I saw today also posted about Windoctor
reporting this file missing. (He also was able to get NPF running again
after an un/re-install, but then ran Windoctor to discover this .dll being
listed as missing.) After reading his post, I ran Windoctor and got the
same exact report. Thought it might be a path issue, like the gapi32.dll
issue a while back, but the .dll is completetly gone. (Searched whole
computer, including hidden files.)

Oh well, everything "seems" to be working now anyway. :^)

Perhaps Symantec will address this .dll issue in the near future.

Thanks!

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