Question:

When IBM sold IBM AntiVirus to Symantec, I received a copy of Symantec Norton AntiVirus. It's OK. Virus updates are available and it seems to detect the current viruses that my Windows friend catch. But, and there's always a but, it insists on installing itself on the C: drive. I'd really rather have it on my D: drive. Can I do this?

Answer:

Of course, the answer is yes. This is OS/2.

Since you already have the program installed, make sure it is shut down. Then use the drives object and drag the Symantec folder to where you want it to live. In my case this was d:\NavOS2. I'll use this in the examples that follow.

Open up the Norton AntiVirus folder and check the object properties. Make sure the objects now point to the new location. If you are starting Norton AntiVirus from the Startup folder, don't forget the check this object too.

For those of you lurkers that don't have Norton AntiVirus installed yet, just install it to your preferred location. The installer will insist on installing the virus definitions to c:\symantec. After installing, drag the c:\Symantec\Common folder to d:\NavOS2\Common.

When you are done, you will have the following directory structure:

 |--NAVOS2
 |   \--COMMON
 |       \--SHARED
 |           \--VIRUSDEF

  SymantecInstalledApps
  SymantecNAV
  SymantecSharedDefs

Now find the file d:\NavOS2\DefLoc.Dat and change the value of the Location key to match the new location. In my example, the key becomes.

 Location=D:\NAVOS2\COMMON\SHARED\VIRUSDEF

Oh, you want to know about LiveUpdate? Well, ask me next month.

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