Installing Service Packs

Pete Q wrote:

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


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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)