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  • 1.  Defintion update during a scan

    Posted Oct 24, 2012 01:04 PM

    I'm working on documentation for my company and was wondering what happens when a client is scanning and definition update takes place? Does it wait for the scan to finish before updating? If not, does the scan restart?

    SEP 11 RU7 MP2

    Thanks!



  • 2.  RE: Defintion update during a scan
    Best Answer

    Posted Oct 24, 2012 01:09 PM

    See this KB article:

    Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) 11 / Symantec AntiVirus (SAV) 10 - What is the expected behavior if the Antivirus (AV) client downloads and updates to a new definition set while a manual or scheduled scan is running?

    https://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH106230



  • 3.  RE: Defintion update during a scan

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Oct 24, 2012 01:14 PM

    only the rest of the files thar ae to be scanned will be scanned with new definition.