NAV2003 CommonClient - what is it?

I reinstalled XP for someone and they put NAV2003 on. Out of curiosity, went looking for CommonClient's function and ran into a "brick wall" on what it's function is.

Below are two samples of references that I ran across about CC, but here and in others, not one word about what it does.

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...s 2000/Me/98/XP&src=csm&pcode=nav&svy=&csm=no

http://www.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.security.firewalls/2003-06/1414.html

Does anyone have a clue as to what it does?

In May, when my current NAV2002 subscription is up for renewal, if I can't stick with 2002, will go elsewhere. Currently run NOD32 on WinME because of the light load on 9X resources. On XP, if not NAV, will use yet a third brand.

Regards - Charles

 

Hi Christer,

Thanks, I overlooked the obvious place to look.

My original impression of this and NAV subsequent to NAV2002, especially of 2004, is that of bloat, just shear inefficiency.

CC creates a BHO, wants to get on line from startup, and from your reference, can't control it the way LiveUpdate could be.

All in all, a vast improvement - Not!

Regards - Charles