Good ole Norton...
 

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:

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?

No sir. No issues at all with Norton over the weekend nor today. Seems all is working just fine.

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.

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.

This is why I droped norton.

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:

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.

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...

There is a new version out. I have mine update automatically. :03:

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...

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: