IMHO..... I prefer the "Hands on " approach as I have seen many machines infected due to a false set of security that the owners have that the AV or system is updating itself....but for some reason has stopped about 3 months prior...due to lapse in the subscription fees, change of the configuration or whatever.

Symantec CE updates itself...but I still monitor it and do manual updates as sometimes the Live update definitions can be 2-4 days behind.


Just my .02 cdn

MLF