Norton Live Update

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I run Live Update manually once or twice a day to get the latest virus definitions all at once. Every time I run it, it downloads at least a megabyte's worth of updates, and oftentimes as much as five or six MB.

Are there really that many new definitions every single day??? And even if there are, how the hell does Norton get them, anyway???

This seems fishy to me. Can someone explain it to me?

Norton/Symantec has a team of computer engineers who get their info from corporate customers and connections to other computer security firms - and sometimes you'll get an update to the Norton AV "engine" as well.

IMO, Norton and McAfee are more bloatware than "safeware", I use Microsoft Security Essentials for my anti-virus needs in Windows - and it integrates cleanly and it's not obtrusive when it runs.