Norton Antivirus - Evil in a Yellow Box

Post by **kaze_no_hogosha** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 10:03 pm

Like Enslaven00bs I use AVG Free. It was recommended to me by my school's network administrator. I haven't had a problem with it and I like that fact it automatically updates daily.

Post by **Dr. Sheexy** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 10:25 pm

My mom just got some Norton junk from her workplace and brought it to me asking me to install it on the home computer and I told her to take it back. XD

I use AVG free, and my mom said she's gonna take the Norton back and get Avast.
If Kassidy uses Avast it's gotta be pretty good, I'll take it when she brings it XD

Post by **Tsurayu** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 10:57 pm

I have used Avast before, but I stopped because it was such a system hog on my old computer. I highly doubt that would be a problem anymore, but I just prefer Avira now. I think my dad still uses Avast on his computer.

Post by **Deques** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 7:26 am

Kas, you should watch this

Post by **Ailise** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 8:03 am

I use Avast. ^^ I think it's good

Post by **mirage223** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 10:21 am

Even Symantec realizes the evilness of their products.
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ts ... 3108162039

Post by **Ailise** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 11:41 am

This tool was created because many Norton software don't have uninstalls anymore. To avoid some "virus" to auto-uninstall their software.
So if you want to uninstall you have to download this kind of uninstaller. That is how I had to uninstall the later Norton softwares.

Post by **Kassidy** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:45 pm

Yeah, I used that recently too. Only way to get rid of the damned thing. Vader's computer went from taking 15 minutes to start-up to 4 minutes, which is still a lot but I didn't have time to work any further on the issue. I think that was enough of an improvement for one session though.

Re Dekky: Very interesting marketing idea, though they forgot the scene where Norton Fighter clings on to the PC and doesn't let go. Good laugh though, cheers.

Post by **Magus_Melchior** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 5:35 am

I remember when NAV didn't suck (around, oh, 12 years ago. Now get off my lawn!!).

I use Clamwin nowadays.

Enslaven00bs wrote:Macs get viruses too. It's just rare because they are only 3% of the market share.

Um, yeah, and there's what, 4 for OS X? << didn't bother to Google for it in depth
You also have to manually install the payload and/or run it as a privileged user, IIRC.