First post, by Malik
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Anti-virus definitions are updated almost every day nowadays.
Maintaining multiple internet-connected systems is becoming a headache, keeping all the systems up to date, especially for a home user like me.
After a few days of leaving a system unused, my Norton 360 finds a few more MBs (usu. 3 - 9MB) of updates to download.
Just wondering - how do these updates work when it comes to hard drive space?
Do they :
1. Replace (at least some or most of) the space occupied by past updates?
2. Keep growing in size - exceeding slowly the minimum HDD space requirement?
3. Finally clog up the hard disk space, full of definition updates?
(And on the other hand, I'm really comfortable with Norton 360 - previously I was against most of the Symantec/Norton products since they were notorious as a resource hungry stigma. But now, Norton 360's engine is fast, very customizable when it comes to notifications and required actions, and seems to work "behind the screens" quietly.)
Just a few doubts.
Thanks!