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| Thread ID: 129521 | 2013-02-26 12:17:00 | Norton 360 good? | fishbone (17020) | Press F1 |
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| 1330284 | 2013-02-27 11:30:00 | Need to be more paranoid ;) :lol: After Windows installs, the first thing I do is install drivers (downloaded and checked prior) and AV offline from a known good copy and manually update definitions if needed. Setup firewall and only then do I connect to the network for anything else. Some people call me crazy, but I enjoy having my Windows malware-free. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1330285 | 2013-02-27 20:04:00 | @ Chill -- it "Should" be anything that the other AV's don't detect, the exception being cookies. Malware minor or more vicious is still malware, capable of sending back information to someone. What about the usual detections of valid programs, that should be a mark against for each one. Password reset tools, Outlook password decoders, Office & Win keyfinders(decoders), 3rd party remote access software, JAVA!!! eg revelation, keyfinder, majic jellybean |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1330286 | 2013-02-27 20:15:00 | Need to be more paranoid ;) :lol: After Windows installs, the first thing I do is install drivers (downloaded and checked prior) and AV offline from a known good copy and manually update definitions if needed. Setup firewall and only then do I connect to the network for anything else. Some people call me crazy, but I enjoy having my Windows malware-free. Meh, with Windows XP SP2, Vista, 7, 8 I don't bother doing that, the firewall works until something else is installed. Vanilla XP you have a point though. What about the usual detections of valid programs, that should be a mark against for each one. Password reset tools, Outlook password decoders, Office & Win keyfinders(decoders), 3rd party remote access software, JAVA!!! eg revelation, keyfinder, majic jellybean Java should count as malware ;) |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1330287 | 2013-03-01 04:42:00 | Ate we still waiting for Zara's results? | plod (107) | ||
| 1330288 | 2013-03-01 05:45:00 | Norton 360 isn't as bad as it used to be - I find the latest version runs OK on old hardware. I still wouldn't recommend purchasing it because NOD32 does a much better job & the unnecessary extra components included in a security suite have a habit of getting in the way, or sometimes just being annoying. Especially annoying are the "speed up your PC" features being added to every security suite - none of them actually work. Zara probably wouldn't have anything nasty on her system even if she didn't run any anti-virus, so it is hard to judge detection rates in that situation. I expect the Eset scan will come up clean. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 1330289 | 2013-03-01 09:27:00 | norton is good but it is costly and gives too much warnings and thus slows pc so other free antivirus download like nod32 is good . First, how did you manage to get past the spam filters!? Second, NOD32 isn't free. |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1330290 | 2013-03-01 11:30:00 | Second, NOD32 isn't free. That would depend on where you got it from. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1330291 | 2013-03-01 20:36:00 | That would depend on where you got it from. I'm talking legally ;) |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1330292 | 2013-03-01 23:14:00 | I assume then that Free Antivirus Download wasn't. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
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