Installing Service Packs

[Pete Q]

Is there some reason that your anti-virus controls should
be disbled when installing Mircosoft Service Packs?

I had heard that having virus controls enabled while
downloading the service packs may cause a problem.

Does anyone have more information on this?

I was surprised by this as I would then I would never
want to disable my anti-virus controls, even when
downloading a Microsoft service pack.

Any additional information would be appreciated.

 

[davetest]

Is there some reason that your anti-virus controls should
be disbled when installing Mircosoft Service Packs?

I had heard that having virus controls enabled while
downloading the service packs may cause a problem.

Does anyone have more information on this?

I was surprised by this as I would then I would never
want to disable my anti-virus controls, even when
downloading a Microsoft service pack.

Any additional information would be appreciated.

I don't know the technical details, but I can tell you that
virus products can interfere with system updates.
They can even interfere with products installed from
cdrom. Once I installed (or tried to) Adobe Photoshop
with the virus protection active, and it seemed as if it installed
just fine, no errors, but half of the products effects were missing.


Dave

 

[Guest]

Keep your antivirus program enabled while you download
and save to disk--then disable the av when you install
the service pack.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Is there some reason that your anti-virus controls should
be disbled when installing Mircosoft Service Packs?

I had heard that having virus controls enabled while
downloading the service packs may cause a problem.

Does anyone have more information on this?

Installing any program - let alone an SP, changes a lot of files.
Resident AV packs are liable to notice this as virus activity and try to
do something about it, which can be catastrophic. Depending on the AV
package this *may* not happen - but do not take risks. It is even more
important to make sure that the AV check in the machines BIOS is off -
these days those are not useful anyway