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Question/Issue:
Symantec Client Security and Symantec AntiVirus may include electronic licensing (the Small Business or Business Pack version), or no licensing may be included. You need to know whether the licensed version or unlicensed version is installed on your computer.


Solution:
To determine whether your Symantec product is licensed, start Symantec AntiVirus and expand the View tree.

To check for licensing in Symantec AntiVirus

1. Start Symantec AntiVirus.
2. In the tree pane, expand View.
3. Look at the menu that appears.
   • If the License option appears, it is Symantec AntiVirus Business Pack, which requires a license.
   • If the License option does not appear, it is Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition; it does not require a license.

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Notes:
When you download Symantec AntiVirus and Symantec Client Security from the Symantec FileConnect Web site, the file name indicates whether your product is licensed. The file name of a licensed version contains the words "business_pack." The file name of an unlicensed version contains the word "unlicensed."

All versions of Symantec AntiVirus and Symantec Client Security that are posted to the Platinum Web site are unlicensed.

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Document ID: 2005100611004248
Last Modified: 06/02/2006
Date Created: 10/06/2005
Operating System(s): Windows 2000, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional Edition, Windows XP Tablet PC, Windows Server 2003 32-bit Edition, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
Product(s): Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.0, Symantec Client Security 3.0, Symantec AntiVirus 10.1, Symantec Client Security 3.1
Release(s): SAV 10.0 [All Releases], Symantec Client Security 3.x [All versions], Symantec AntiVirus 10.1, Symantec Client Security 3.1

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