Endpoint Protection

I am told by Symantec tech support that new definitions thru Liveupdate are released only once a day, there is also a Rapid Release definition that can be manually downloaded if really needed.

So when is the best time to set Liveupdate on SEP to run....... morning, noon, later in the day??

Thanks,
JAY

The Daily certified definitions are usually released between 7 AM and 9 AM Pacific Standard Time (PST). The best time to run the LIveupdate depends upon the environment you are in. Run it when when there is no other process /application ( scan or backup) is running

It depends on what version you're using.

With SAV, we release updates once a day, usually in the morning.

With SEP (and I assume all future versions) we release definitions three times a day.

There's no set time that we release defs on/by.  We try to aim for early morning/noonish/later afternoon releases, but this obviously is at the mercy of QA...if we find that we've got broken definitions in one of the updates, the updates might be early morning/later afternoon/early evening, as an example.

By default, SEPM runs LiveUpdate every four hours...doing this means that it runs six times a day, with enough "overlap" to ensure that updates are downloaded near the time that they're released.

Prachand is right on with response.  The best time to run LU is complete depends on your environment.

Title: 'Virus Definition Update FAQ'
Document ID: 2007378039687998
> Web URL: http://service1.symantec.com/support/ent-security.nsf/docid/2007378039687998?Open&seg=ent

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