Happy Sunday Folks.

I had this little item pop up last week as a window's error instead of a Norton (Symantec) error.  That seemed odd and I went in search of an answer.  Found this one:

"Symantec LiveUpdate CallBack Proxy. This program is part of Symantec's LiveUpdate, the program which updates any Symantec product which you have - this particular program, the CallBack Proxy, was first introduced in mid-2006 with version 3.0 of LiveUpdate. You can run LiveUpdate manually or, as is most often the case, LiveUpdate will run automatically in the background and update any Symantec software which you have configured for automatic background updating. Such software may include Norton AntiVirus, Norton Internet Security, PCAnywhere, GoBack, etc... This particular program, the CallBack Proxy, streams updates from the Symantec servers onto your PC. With the worldwide increase in Internet threats (Viruses, Trojans, Spyware, Adware, Phishing, Hackers), the regular updates for your Symantec security software are becoming bulkier. To combat this increase in the size of the updates that LiveUpdate has to download every time it updates a PC, Symantec have designed the CallBack Proxy module in such a way that if there are many updates to download, LiveUpdate will spawn more than one instance of this program, each simultaneously taking care of downloading a particular update, thus resulting in a faster overall download of the required updates. Do not, therefore, be alarmed if you happen to see more than one instance of this program on the Tasks tab. For those who are familiar with the concept of Download Managers, the LiveUpdate CallBack Proxy is a similar concept."

This was a new one that made me suspect that my Norton 360 was turning into a bugger of sorts.  Recommendations run this gamut:

"Absolutely essential for the protection of your PC with up-to-date threats database updates and program updates - Leave alone.

The above notwithstanding, on some PCs the user may witness this task staying in the Task List for most of the duration of a Windows session instead of disappearing at the end of the LiveUpdate process. When that happens it may be the case that your PC has a corrupted installation of the LiveUpdate program. If so, you can often correct the problem by simply downloading and installing the latest version of Symantec's LiveUpdate."

Anyone else had this one?

EB :|

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