Rafeeq,
Yes I did try the "Updating virus defintions in Symantec Scan Engine 5.x when LiveUpdate is used for another Installed Symantec product" at h
ttp://service1.symantec.com/support/ent-gate.nsf/docid/2005102514480454 the day before yesterday and it did not help.
What I did try this morning was to copy and paste the current definitons from Symantec Shared into the D:\Program Files\Symantec\Scan Engine\Definitions\AntiVirus\VirusDefs directory and according the Symantec Scan Engine 5.x GUI the defintion status did update.
Since this server and some others with the same setup are on closed networks I have to download the def updates from the Internet and manually move them over to these systems. This would be ridiculous having to go through this weekly. And doing things this way doesn't seem proper and I'm not sure of the implications. Within the Symantec Scan Engine 5.x GUI even though the Date of definitions has updated the Date of URL dictionaries and Date of DDR dictionaries are now N/A status. They at least had an older date previously.
I was told that the Symantec Scan Engine 5.x applcation uses the x86 executable but unknowningly had been using the i32 executable. Now if i try to use the x86 executable it causes an "NTVDM encountered a hard error" What the x86 executable has to do with 16-bit applications I have no idea and cannot find any answer. The i32 executable does not have this problem.
I know the NTVDM error is not your problem but I do know that it's not the reason why the Symantec Scan Engine 5.x isn't updating and I don't know if Symantec is even supporting the Symantec Scan Engine 5.x application anymore so I don't know what sort of assistance /advice I could get from you guys.