('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) Symantec NAV 7.6 Corporate Edition has a MAJOR fault when running on XP. It simply will NOT scan floppies on the fly (even with the most restrictive settings enabled) This is a bug that has been confirmed by Symantec (after 3 months of sitting on their bum doing absolutely NOTHING about it) I still haven't seen a solution - other than dumping the product yet. Below are snippets from actual Symantec tech support e-mails. "With 7.61 on the XP Pro machine (your Vectra) we did not catch the virus at the floppy, however we did catch it when we burned it to CD. I tested with 7.61 build 45 on XP PRO.. not your machine.. we did not catch the virus at the floppy. I tested the 8.01 on a machine that wasn't yours as well and it worked as designed. I am thinking at this point there could be a couple of things happening. 1)XP PRO does something between NAV 7.6x and the floppy 2) XP PRO does something to Nav 7.6x " I think they should advertise this widely but.....
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