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Installing Symantec AntiVirus 10.2 for Windows Vista
Documentation table of contents.
Introduction
Symantec AntiVirus is a program designed to prevent malicious software, known as viruses, from infecting your computer. It protects your computer from all viruses known to Symantec AntiVirus, and quarantines infected files before they can affect your machine.
A computer virus is malicious code that attaches to important areas within computer files, such as executable files and the boot areas of floppy and hard disks.
There are numerous ways viruses can affect your computer:
- Infected floppy disks, CD-ROMs, jump drives, and other removable storage devices.
- Infected files from local networks.
- Downloading infected files from email, the Internet, or peer-to-peer file-sharing software.
What viruses do:
- Take control of your computer, causing it to behave erratically.
- Hide in macros that infect and spread throughout Microsoft Word and Excel documents.
- Cause serious damage to your files (damage data, delete files, and possibly erase your hard drive).
What viruses do not do:
- Infect or damage your computer's hardware (e.g., keyboard or monitor). Viruses may cause your hardware to behave in strange ways, but they will not physically damage them.
Installing Symantec AntiVirus
- The Welcome window for the UB Symantec AntiVirus Installer Setup will appear. Click Run.
- The file will begin to install.
- Wait until the Next option is available on the Symantec AntiVirus InstallShield Wizard welcome window. When it becomes available, click it to continue.
- Read the Symantec Software License Agreement. Select I accept the terms in the license agreement, then click Next.
- Select the Complete installation of Symantec AntiVirus. The Complete version installs all the recommended components. Click Next.
- If you are installing Symantec AntiVirus for the first time, or if you uninstalled your previous version, you may see the Network Setup Type window. Select Unmanaged, then click Next.
- If you are installing Symantec AntiVirus for the first time, or if you uninstalled your previous version, you may see the Install Options window. Select Auto-Protect, Run LiveUpdate, and Disable Windows Defender, then click Next.
- To proceed with the installation, click Install.
- Please wait while Symantec AntiVirus installs on your computer.
- Following a successful installation of Symantec AntiVirus, two windows should appear. The first window will indicate a successful
installation. The second is the LiveUpdate window. You must perform a LiveUpdate directly following the successful installation of Symantec AntiVirus. Click Next.
- Please wait while LiveUpdate updates your virus protection files.
- After LiveUpdate updates your files, click Finish.
