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Summary: LUALL.EXE is part of Symantec's "Live Update" but it's also is a target for viruses that try to terminate it; preventing you from being able to update

What is luall.exe?

It appears to be a component of Symantec's "Live Update" technology as used by their security products. It's also a common target of viruses, who take steps to terminate it to prevent you from being able to update.

Article C2064 - June 15, 2004

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I just upagraded my Symantec virus from 2007 to 2008, and now Windoctor keeps telling me LUALL.exe can't find mfc80.dll. When I try to copy it into the \symantec\liveupdate directory, I get an error message about not having authorized access.

Of course Symantecs web site knows nothing, as always. Caching!

Posted by: Jeff Linnert at January 30, 2008 8:10 PM

Everytime I try to run LiveUpdate, The entry Point for luall.exe is Not Found...
I've tried running the tool from symantec for the luall.exe file, and i stil can't get it to work...

This is exactly what the window says when I try to "Fix Risks":
"The procedure entry point GetNextDlgTabItee could not be located in the dynamic link library USER32.dll."

Please try and help, and thanks for your time

Posted by: Tyler at July 18, 2008 11:00 PM

i need the luall.exe file for norton please help me

Posted by: jerry at September 22, 2008 11:59 AM

my laptop is still allive. thanx

Posted by: Exhibition at May 2, 2009 3:22 AM

As of 2/16/10, this link goes to Symnatecs download page for fixing luall.exe. Which is just a part of Live Update.

http://service1.symantec.com/support/sharedtech.nsf/0/44e1d51cfeaab54a88256c8d00608e5e?OpenDocument&seg=ag&lg=en&ct=us

Posted by: Dman at February 16, 2010 9:07 AM

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