Proactive threat protection update file

The headers of the content update files are getting compressed or corrupted. These headers contain information about the size of the file that is being downloaded. Since this information is stripped, the client does not know the files size ahead of time and therefore "expects" the file size to be 0.

When the file transfer ends, the reported file size does not match the "expected" size of 0, and the client believes the update failed. At the next check in, the client re-requests the same file update from Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager and the same temp file is used to store the data, so that file continues to get larger. This problem is fixed in Symantec Endpoint Protection For information on how to obtain the latest build of Symantec Endpoint Protection, read Obtaining an upgrade or update for Symantec Endpoint Protection The SEP client will usually pick these up within 5 minutes.

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