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by kbdavis

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I have a Win200 Server with Symantec v10 and Veritas V8.6. On the 10th August it stopped allowing AV updates from the Security server and the backup jobs will schedule but not run. There also seems to be something blocking me from installing anything on that machine to do a scan.
Also it will not let me do any windows updates. Everything seemed to stop on the 9th Aug. Any suggestions or has anyone seen this before?

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by sgt_shultz

the only time i have ever seen similar to this is when it has
a virus. (hope not)
or firewall
or password change
and win2k has really need event reporting system. what is in the event log i wonder? (rdl)
you did not mention your sp and updates on win2k and as you know it is particularly vulnerable unpatched at the moment..
but why the backups too? imhe a sudden breaking of backups is change in password. have you changed the administrator password lately? added or modfied user accounts/permissions/groups? you may need to change it a few more places than you thought like backup account and scheduled tasks/batch files?

by normh3

There have been some strange issues with NAV lately. I don't know if 10.0 is affected, but at several of our client sites we had to uninstall Live Update and reinstall the latest version from Symantec. It is located in the downloads section under LiveUpdate. Just a thought.

by monice

I just experienced some of the same symptoms recently at multiple clients. Sounds funny but if you are using APC UPS check the APC services and see if they are hung on starting. If so here is a link to the tech doc to remedy the issue.

http://tinyurl.com/cj4ey

by exnn

my best guess is a virus. I've had something like that before. Try an online check with a different antivirus like trendmicro. Also search for a bat file with something like "kill" or "c$" within it, since viruses try to stop services/processes and disable/enable admin shares to been to take control of the computer. Good luck.

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