[dba-Tech] Interesting Vipre behavior

Yes, firewall's on, but I now have a wireless router with a firewall -- Okay 
to turn off Windows firewall to see if that's it?

I had to reboot to update today.

Susan H.


> Susan,
> If you are getting a service warning 3-4 times a day that it couldn't 
> update
> then it may be that your firewall is blocking the update port. Other than
> that there is no reason that it should not be updating. If you turn the
> firewall off and it's still not updating I think you should uninstall 
> Vipre,
> reboot and then reinstall it.
>
> PS: I found my box of RAM finally! Now I have to match it against your 
> specs
> to see if any might work.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins
> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 8:44 AM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Interesting Vipre behavior
>
> I'm having trouble too -- it hasn't updated since the 5th and it won't
> update -- it's like it can't connect -- the dialog box just sits there, 
> with
>
> no activity. :(
>
> I love it though... I guess I should stop and restart it?
>
> Susan H.
>
>
>> Dear Group,
>>>
>> After a couple days of this, I started my system back up and ran
>> Process Explorer and whatever else I run normally...and everything's
>> fine!  I didn't un-install anything; I didn't change anything in the
>> startup programs...Vipre just started working as it's supposed to.
>>> I'm mainly venting and I'm happy that my system has settled down...but
>> I'd like my wife's system to run Deep scans at night that don't last
>> for 18 hours...and I don't know what to do about it.
>
> =====I have the same problem -- I schedule it for 1 AM and it's still
> running in the morning. I pause it and then restart it the next evening.
> Takes 2 nights!
>
> Susan H.
>
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