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"ThreatCon Level is not up-to-date" - Option to turn off

MitchR's picture

Starting with BackupExec v12.5, the server will attempt to poll the internet to get a Symantec ThreatCon status.  If there is no internet access, or there's a timeout, every day an alert will result saying "The Symantec ThreatCon Level is not up-to-date".

Many of us have servers that do not and will not have internet access, and we don't want or care about ThreatCon.  Every single day we get these nagging messages.  Please make it stop! 

In general, no application should attempt to communicate over the internet without permission.  There needs to be an option to enable/disable this feature.

More details:
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/312310.htm
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/315592.htm
http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/server-quotservernamequot-symantec-threatcon-level-not-date