Rising Sun Downloaders A heads up :Virus's

[Rockin Robbins]

My testing is not done, so best to be cautious but:

• Kapersky online scan found no virus
• Spybot Search & Destroy says it's clean
• Ad-Aware says clean
• Anti-virus portion of Comodo Firewall says it's clean
• WinPatrol says no problem

Could be a false positive, but let me scan it with ClamWin and someone could hit it with AVG as well. THEN we can clear it as a false positive.

One of the reasons I use Avast! is that it is sensitive and sometimes gives false positives as a result. This would be about the fifth false positive so far this year. I'll take a hundred of those before I accept one false negative!

Don't bother with Norton. It reports that WinPatrol is a virus. Best way to knock out the competition is to make people afraid to use it. So Norton is permanently off my list.

[RDDR]

Thanks Rockin Robbins.
I certainly agree.I'd rather deal with false positives for sure.
A few years agao a virus took down my hard drive and I lost photos and valuable info forever.
I hope this is a false positive and if it is I'd like a bit of advice about going back and installing files that look like this.What happens next?

[Rockin Robbins]

Avast! says:



But Ad-Aware says:



And Kapersky online says:



And ClamWin says:



The verdict is in. The file is clean.

[OrangeYoshi]

Thanks for clearing the mod for us.

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

Don't bother with Norton. It reports that WinPatrol is a virus. Best way to knock out the competition is to make people afraid to use it. So Norton is permanently off my list.

All business ploys aside, do you think there is actually anything wrong with Norten? I use it for my computer. I have never had any problem with getting infected with viruses. Norten has been good at finding, and deleting them. My records show Norten has deleted thousands of trojans.

I agree with your false positive thing.

[Armistead]

Avast is good and bad. It has given me many false positives, but I still use it. I got the same virus hit from Avast a few months ago when I DL FORS, but found it clean....

[Rockin Robbins]

Well, the first thing wrong with Norton is that it holds your computer hostage. Try uninstalling it and see what I mean. Oh, I should tell you that your computer won't work if you do, unless they changed it recently. Norton hooks into your operating system so that any disk operation points to Norton instead of the Windows disk read/write procedures. When you uninstall Norton, the pointers still point to Norton. Guess what happens when you try to start your computer?

The government forced Norton to post a true uninstall on their website. They aren't exactly trumpeting why it's needed or helping you to find it. Actually they do their best to make sure you can't find it unless you know what you're looking for and why, plus know how to do site searches. After all, they aren't trying to protect you, they're trying to force you to pay them every year.

Then like the car dealership who sends a junk mail ad disguised as an IRS refund, after tricking us into installing their junk for the protection of their "valuable customers" they ask us to trust them to sell us a car, or another year of Norton. Bye-bye Norton. You're otta here! Permanently. Your kind of service I will do without. My computer is mine and I will run it as I choose.

Either of the two free anti-virus programs, AVG or Avast! do as good a job and don't hold a gun to your head for ever increasing amounts of money every six months or a year. There are other free alternatives that are just as good.

Tonight I will be installing FOTRS to see what I have to do to defang Avast! I just want it to ignore that specific file and leave normal protection alone. I'm thinking there's an option to do that on first detection. Stay tuned...

[AVGWarhawk]

A false postive....go figure

[FIREWALL]

Every computer that had Norton on it that I know of had to be reformated to get rid of Norton.

NORTON is the VIRUS.

[Rockin Robbins]

Before the feds made Norton make the Norton Removal Tool, I manually edited the registry, individually removing dozens of hijackers that pointed disk input/output routines to Norton. Once I was sure I had them all, I backed up my system, uninstalled Norton and all was well. To this day Norton does not provide the Norton Removal Tool as part of its uninstall process or anywhere on its install disks. You have to go to their website armed with a separate search engine to dig it out to use it. They are conforming to the law as begrudgingly as possible and now they wonder why we don't love them.

From now until the end of time no computer I own will ever have a Norton product on it again.

[captgeo]

Avast Norton

[Seeadler]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

From now until the end of time no computer I own will ever have a Norton product on it again.

The last good product of Norton was the Norton-Commander. Everything that came afterwards with the label Norton on it was a pain for pc admins