View Full Version : Good ole Norton...
SteamWake
08-24-09, 01:04 PM
Norton AntiVirus, Norton 360 recently pushed an update... nothing new.. except this update caused the programs to suddenly and un expectedly shut down with a dialog box crashing whatever you were doing at the time.
It would also shut down the AV protection so not only did you lose your work your also (often unknowingly) not protected.
At first Symentics were sending emails to people who had come to their forums asking for pepoles emails in a public forum :o. Stating that eveyones 'fix' was different. Two days later they posted a public link to a hot fix. :doh:
Haven seen that much fun since they pushed a patch that was incompatible with Zone alarm cutting off pepoles internet / network connections with an insidious fix of un-installling both and waiting on zone alarm making their software compatible. :rotfl:
AVGWarhawk
08-24-09, 01:13 PM
Norton works ok by me. Caught some nasty trojans on my daughters computer. She got that darn personal antivirus adware deal. Clever bugger. It keeps directing you to the fake personal antivirus site so you think you have to pay to get rid of this. Everytime she got on any webpage at the top would pop up 'this page has malicous adware click here to protect your computer.' I had to download Malwarebytes to remove that crap then Norton did the rest for the trojans. Meh, some love Norton and other don't. -shrug-
SteamWake
08-24-09, 01:18 PM
Norton works ok by me. Caught some nasty trojans on my daughters computer. She got that darn personal antivirus adware deal. Clever bugger. It keeps directing you to the fake personal antivirus site so you think you have to pay to get rid of this. Everytime she got on any webpage at the top would pop up 'this page has malicous adware click here to protect your computer.' I had to download Malwarebytes to remove that crap then Norton did the rest for the trojans. Meh, some love Norton and other don't. -shrug-
So you did not get hit with the "Symentec systems has closed" bug?
AVGWarhawk
08-24-09, 01:35 PM
No sir. No issues at all with Norton over the weekend nor today. Seems all is working just fine.
SteamWake
08-24-09, 01:45 PM
Whens the last time you updated the profiles?
The Impression I got was that it was pretty widespread and happened after there latest push some time mid week last week.
AVGWarhawk
08-24-09, 03:14 PM
Just this past Friday night when my daughters showed me what was going on with their computer. Norton showed bagging two viruses (trojans). I had Norton clean them out. Then I updated the definitions, etc. No issue there. Then I had to address this stupid personal antivirus bogus crap. That took about an hour. In the meantime, Norton picked up the damn trojan again. Probably from the rouge malware/addware I was attempting to get off the hard drive. Once I got that handled I had Norton update again and still no problems. My girls said the computer has been working great since we got all that crap off the hard drive.
Task Force
08-24-09, 03:17 PM
This is why I droped norton.
AVGWarhawk
08-24-09, 03:25 PM
I have Avast on my computer and Norton on my daughters rig. When that subscription runs out I will put Avast on that computer.
Cant say I've ever felt the need for an AV program. :hmmm: I usually get me something free twice a year and scan the PC and believe it or not, I havent had viruses or high risk spyware on my PC in years. :yeah:
Tarrasque
08-24-09, 04:58 PM
I dropped Norton when they decided that you payed for a years subscription and then couldn't use the damn thing again.
I stick to AVG nowadays.
Cant say I've ever felt the need for an AV program. :hmmm: I usually get me something free twice a year and scan the PC and believe it or not, I havent had viruses or high risk spyware on my PC in years. :yeah:
This reminds me of a guy in a tech support room awhile back, it was funny as hell. He was asked if he had AV software on his system and he said 'hell no'. He claimed with a loud voice that 'Every time I load one of those dang programs I get a Virus!'. I just shook my head and had a good laugh. :har:
Speaking of I should really update avast...
AVGWarhawk
08-25-09, 07:46 AM
Speaking of I should really update avast...
There is a new version out. I have mine update automatically. :03:
SteamWake
08-25-09, 09:17 AM
Cant say I've ever felt the need for an AV program. :hmmm: I usually get me something free twice a year and scan the PC and believe it or not, I havent had viruses or high risk spyware on my PC in years. :yeah:
At least none that your aware of. Werent you complaining of issues with your credit card recently? Might want to look into that.
My scans routinely find "high risk" trojans and other niceitys.
The only way to avoid malware / spyware is to not connect to the internet.... ever... and even then some commercial slips it in there so...
At least none that your aware of. Werent you complaining of issues with your credit card recently? Might want to look into that.
There's 0% chance that it would be virus related. The first case was the store's card reading somehow not replying back to it. And the second case was due to malfunction in the other end.
Besides, I could have every virus of the world on my PC and there'd be maybe a 0.00000000001% chance it would affect my bank account as the password to access changes everytime and there's no 2 identical passwords. The PWs also arent stored in anywhere on my PC, so. :03:
PeriscopeDepth
08-25-09, 12:15 PM
I always hated Norton. How deep it hooked itself into your system always bothered me.
PD
kiwi_2005
08-26-09, 03:16 AM
Ive hated all Nortons up till 360. When i tried 360 i was blown away at how good this program is seriously it was made with the intention of set and forget those who can't be bothered with the setting up but want to know they are safe on the net. 360 when doing a deep scan is the best ive seen only one that comes close would be Bitdefender SS 2009. Bitdefender has one fault its a hogger on your pc cause it checks everything continuously so bad for gaming. One annoying thing about 360 is when you turned something off the taskbar icon would make sure you knew about it and turn red plus it would warn you every chance it got. That really pi$$ed me off, I hate software that warn me of the choices i make, I know what im doing so pi$$ off with your warnings. :damn:
Was going to try out Nortons gamers edition antivirus suppose to be better than Eset nod32 when it comes to system hogging. But this freeware i have on is good enough, at least it doesn't warn me when ive made changes!
AVGWarhawk
08-26-09, 08:37 AM
That is one reason I left Norton on my daughters computer. SET IT AND FORGET IT. My girls surf the net and play on line community type games. I do not have to babysit the AV program. Norton keeps itself up to date automatically. It worked like a champ with the trojan issue last week. Currently I have Avast on my machine. It also is set and forget. Once Norton runs out on my daughters machine I will install Avast. It is a good AV and it is free.
goldorak
08-27-09, 05:44 PM
I always hated Norton. How deep it hooked itself into your system always bothered me.
PD
:yep: for all pratical purposes Norton is a virus.
I think the last version of Norton I had the courage to install on my computer was around '99 or 2000. After that no more Norton, went with Kaspersky and lately with Avira Antivir. Its great, it doesn't bring your pc to a halt, it installs and disinstalls without problems and keeps everything in order. What more could you want ? :D
Task Force
08-27-09, 05:48 PM
Im useing Avaira free antivirus... and Mcafee which are ISP provides for free... not a bad idea to have 2 runing at once...:yep:
PeriscopeDepth
08-28-09, 03:46 AM
:yep: for all pratical purposes Norton is a virus.
I think the last version of Norton I had the courage to install on my computer was around '99 or 2000. After that no more Norton, went with Kaspersky and lately with Avira Antivir. Its great, it doesn't bring your pc to a halt, it installs and disinstalls without problems and keeps everything in order. What more could you want ? :D
I've heard great things about Kapersky. I am cheap and use Avast! (on my Vista install, nothing extra running on my new Fedora install :) ). I could get Mcaffe free through my ISP but haven't bothered. I really don't do any "high risk" surfing.
PD
goldorak
08-28-09, 03:58 AM
I've heard great things about Kapersky. I am cheap and use Avast! (on my Vista install, nothing extra running on my new Fedora install :) ). I could get Mcaffe free through my ISP but haven't bothered. I really don't do any "high risk" surfing.
PD
Well since Avira Antivir is free I guess I'm cheap too. :haha:
No point in buying a commercial antivirus when free alternatives are as good and have little to no limitations.
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