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Norton Antivirus

Discussion in 'Questions and Answers' started by pocoloco, Jan 11, 2009.

  1. pocoloco

    pocoloco I'm your huckleberry Club Member

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    I recently reformatted the computer a week ago and installed trial version of Norton Antivirus. That's all I have at the moment, no antimalware, no extra firewall.

    In the past 24 hours, I've been getting a notice from Norton saying that it blocked an attack from Trojan.Vundo. Strangely, this notice occurs every hour on the dot, exactly when Norton automatically updates its virus definitions. If I disable the wirless connection, it does not happen.

    I have done both Quick and Full virus scans after these notices, and besides the occasional tracking cookie, have come up clean.

    So might this be a peculiarity of Norton? Besides being annoying and strange, it makes me wonder if there's something wrong that Norton cannot identify.
     
  2. Stitches

    Stitches ThePhin's Biggest Killjoy Luxury Box

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    Norton stinks. Find a replacement, there are plenty of solid free ones on the net. :thumbup:


    (sorry that this is not an actual answer, more of a suggestion)
     
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  3. FinSane

    FinSane Cynical Dolphins Fan

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    use avast

    /end discussion
     
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  4. FinsPensFan

    FinsPensFan Professional Slacker

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    I used Avast for years. No problems.
     
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  5. Stitches

    Stitches ThePhin's Biggest Killjoy Luxury Box

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    That's what I use as well.
     
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  6. #1 fan

    #1 fan Well-Known Member

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    avast and avg are both very good. norton completely sucks. i uninstalled it 5 months before my subscription was over.
     
  7. pocoloco

    pocoloco I'm your huckleberry Club Member

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    you guys weren't kidding about Norton. I installed Avast, and did a full scan at boot. It identified two trogans, one in the temp folder, other in the Norton root folder.

    I uninstalled Norton after that
     
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  8. anlgp

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    linux ftw.

    or alternatively "start - run - msconfig - enter - startup" or "(windows key)+R" "msconfig - enter - startup"

    know what you're turning off and you might fix it.
     
  9. Vampire Baby

    Vampire Baby New Member

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    You should use this tool to completely uninstall Norton otherwise it will stay in the registry and cause you more problems.

    http://service1.symantec.com/Support/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039
     
  10. FinSane

    FinSane Cynical Dolphins Fan

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    leave it to anal gap to give a too complex answer. the simplest of solutions is sometimes the best, use avast :)

    anyways, norton sucks its like AOL, it completely takes over your computer and becomes a memory hog. Plus it takes too much space. And apparently, it wasnt even doing the job.

    I would also recommend adding CCleaner and AdAware to your utilities. :up:
     
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  11. anlgp

    anlgp ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A

    It's only complex if you haven't done it before.
     
  12. DaFish

    DaFish Well-Known Member

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    Add Malwarebytes to that list.
     
  13. Vampire Baby

    Vampire Baby New Member

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    Excellent suggestion mate. Malwarebytes is definitely the strongest malware killer out there.
     
  14. FinSane

    FinSane Cynical Dolphins Fan

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    you:
    ok guys! we can solve this! just type this in:

    ctrl + alt + F2 + shift + PGUP +holding down caps lock +backspace +24

    ok then reboot, shut down, reboot, shutdown, restart in safe mode, do a system restore, then shut down, shake your cpu around a few times, then restart and it should work
     
  15. Vampire Baby

    Vampire Baby New Member

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    I use Autoruns to control what runs at startup.

    It's easier and more powerful.
     
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  16. anlgp

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    see you're still in windows mode.

    if you have linux you don't need all that reboot shutdown ****....
     
  17. pocoloco

    pocoloco I'm your huckleberry Club Member

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    I have a number of programs I need for work that I hear do not run in Linux, though I've thought of partitioning the hard drive and installing Linux that way.

    I am getting so sick of windows. I don't even do anything that really warrants viruses, just mytheater.com, break.com, or googling scouting profiles for draft prospects.
     
  18. FinSane

    FinSane Cynical Dolphins Fan

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    im running vista on a toshiba laptop. no problems here.

    i think it depends moreso on what kind of computer you have and what you do on there. windows does suck, but apple/mac is not always the best either, and linux is good only if you know what youre doing.

    also, stop downloading porn, trust me, youll thank me later :up:
     
  19. dolfan32323

    dolfan32323 ty xphinfanx

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    Go Mac :up:
     
  20. DaFish

    DaFish Well-Known Member

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    yeah.....to hell!!!
     
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