Date: January 2, 2007 US Pacific Time
Notification type: Service Update
Product: Symantec LiveState Patch Manager
Version: 6.0.x

Overview
When upgrading a Symantec Antivirus (SAV) 8.1 client that is installed on a LiveState Delivery, Patch Manager, or Recovery Manager server, catastrophic data loss in LiveState can occur. This only affects SAV 8.l clients; no SAV server versions or other SAV client versions are affected by this defect.
During an upgrade of the SAV client, some code in the 8.1 version is run that causes large-scale file deletion in the c:\Symantec folder, which is the default install path for LiveState Delivery, Patch Manager, and Recovery Manager.

Recommendation:
The best way to handle this is through prevention, since once the SAV upgrade happens, it is necessary to completely reinstall the LiveState software and re-populate the package depot. To avoid data loss, use the following steps when upgrading SAV 8.1:

1. Stop all LiveState services (using 'delivery stop' on a command line for Delivery and Patch Manager, or 'recovery stop' for Recovery Manager).
2. Rename the c:\Symantec folder to some other name (for example c:\symantec_temporary).
3. Perform the upgrade from SAV client 8.1 to whichever version you would like (usually the latest version).
4. Undo the renaming of the c:\symantec folder to set it back to its original name.
5. Restart the LiveState services (using 'delivery start' on a command line for Delivery and Patch Manager, or 'recovery start' for Recovery Manager).
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Overview
Symantec has posted Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) signatures to update Symantec Client Firewall versions 7.1.4 and above. Security Update 42 includes additional detection for known intrusions.

Recommendation
Symantec encourages you to update to the newest signature set. This update is available via LiveUpdate.
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Overview
Symantec has posted Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) signatures to update Symantec Client Firewall versions 7.1.4 and above. Security Update 43 includes additional detection for known intrusions.

Recommendation
Symantec encourages you to update to the newest signature set. This update is available via LiveUpdate.
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Overview
Symantec has released Security Update 34 (SU34) for Symantec Gateway Security 5000 Series v3.0.

Apply Security Update 34 by running LiveUpdate. For more details on this update, please see the release notes at this link:

Recommendation
Symantec strongly recommends that you schedule automatic LiveUpdate downloads of Security Updates to maintain the highest level of protection against emerging threats and security risks.
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OverviewSymantec has released Security Update 32 (SU32) and Security Update 33
(SU33) for Symantec Gateway Security 5000 Series v3.0.

Apply Security Updates 32 and 33 by running LiveUpdate. For more details on this update, please see the release notes at this link:

Recommendation
Symantec strongly recommends that you schedule automatic LiveUpdate downloads of Security Updates to maintain the highest level of protection against emerging threats and security risks.
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Overview
Symantec has released Security Update 35 (SU35) for Symantec Gateway Security 5000 Series v3.0.Apply Security Update 35 by running LiveUpdate. For more details on this update, please see the release notes at this link.

Recommendation
Symantec strongly recommends that you schedule automatic LiveUpdate downloads of Security Updates to maintain the highest level of protection against emerging threats and security risks.
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Overview
Symantec has released Security Update 36 (SU36) for Symantec Gateway Security 5000 Series v3.0.

Apply Security Update 36 by running LiveUpdate. For more details on this update, please see the release notes at this link:

Recommendation
Symantec strongly recommends that you schedule automatic LiveUpdate downloads of Security Updates to maintain the highest level of protection against emerging threats and security risks.
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Symantec has released Symantec Mail Security 5.0.5 build 366 for Microsoft Exchange. This build resolves a problem that caused IIS buffer overrun problems with libspamhunter.dll (as mentioned in the document "IIS buffer overrun problems with libspamhunter.dll in Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange" available at http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-gate.nsf/docid_p/2006120116344254).

If you encountered this problem and fixed it by editing the BMIconfig.xml file, then you must either restore the BMIconfig.xml file to its original state or perform a clean installation. Detailed installation information is available on the Platinum Web site.

Recommendation
Symantec encourages you to update to Symantec Mail Security 5.0.5.366 for Microsoft Exchange if you are experiencing the problem described above, or any other problems that are fixed by this build. For more information about new fixes and enhancements included in this build, please read the Release Notes available on the Platinum Web site:
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Overview
Symantec has released Security Update 69 for Symantec Network Security 4.0 and Symantec Network Security 7100 Series.

Apply Security Update 69 by running LiveUpdate. For more details on this update please see the description at this link:

Recommendation
Symantec recommends that you update with all released patches and updates.
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Symantec announces the availability of the beta version of Symantec Information Foundation Mail Security 6.0 for Microsoft Exchange. This replacement to Symantec Mail Security 5.0.x for Microsoft Exchange includes the following features:

Dramatic performance improvements:
- Code optimizations within the product itself and sub-components
- Leverage in-memory scanning to accelerate scans and reduce CPU
- Scan at Edge and Hub server roles - eliminating the need to scan messages in transit at the mailbox server unless new definitions arrive
- Scanning window for background and serial scans - accelerate scanning of the message store by only scanning messages in the past X hours/days/weeks/months as it is less likely that older messages would still contain threats
- Leverage 64-bit hardware and OS for Exchange 2007Best-of-Breed AntiSpam technology - Now includes Symantec Premium AntiSpam (formerly a separate purchase)
- Dramatically more accurate spam detection (up to 97.69% detection)- 1 in 1 million false positives
- No administration required - spam rules are updated every 5-10 minutesExchange 2007 support- Leverage VSAPI 2.6 to provide a scanning window for messages in the store (scan only messages from past xx days)
- Leverage AV Stamp to prevent double scanning (ex. messages scanned on an Edge server will not be rescanned at asubsequent server)

Reporting enhancements
- Consolidation of summary reports across multiple servers
- PDF support for report output and email deliveryCluster Support
- Agent integration with Symantec Veritas Cluster Services
- Failover of settings and quarantineTo sing up for this beta testing opportunity, log in at the following location using yourSymbeta user account:
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Apply Security Update 37 by running LiveUpdate. For more details on this update, please see the release notes at this link:

Recommendation
Symantec strongly recommends that you schedule automatic LiveUpdate downloads of Security Updates to maintain the highest level of protection against emerging threats and security risks.
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