Norton Antivirus

[francois]

hi´

I downloaded last day the latest version of Norton Antivirus, the 2005 one.

installed it, and tried it ...

it´s lighter, faster and some new features ...nice

it seems that this time, they made a real new product well updated to the new kind of threats we may encounter on the web.

good job ... worth to try

cheers

francois

ps; I did not download it from symantec ...

if you want the address ... pm me and transmit it ... thanks

Edited September 20, 2004 by francois

[francois]

hi'

ok ... I hope that it won't be a popup site ...

I can't know really, as I have a firewall that block all these

here it is : Norton 2005 and more ...

you'll need bittorrent software to get it

cheers

francois

[Ian_B]

I got it over the weekend as well.

Problem for me is that it's still the same resource hog as always... there was a noticable drop in performance with my top range PC... has a large memory footprint compared to F-prot

[terdsak_12]

I deleted my 2004 norton as it slowed my PC downto a snails pace, I use AVG free off the net.

[francois]

hi'

you are all right ...

but, still it seems to be one of the most efficient one on the market ...

I swap from nav2004 to AVG 7 full, a lot lighter and very efficient too

but, nav is good for people who are not fully skiled with coms, but fully paranoid with the web ... don't you think?

cheers

francois

ps; the best is to have a well working firewall, and spybot (with tea-timer on) ...

but, it's only my choice

[Sporting Dog]

I use Norton Systemworks which has Norton Antivirus bundled with it.

Whenever I do a complete system virus scan it always hangs at a file somewhere in C/windows/system32/*.*

Sometimes the file is part of Adobe SVG, other times it is a *.DLL file.

It means I can never fully scan my computer because the only way out is to abort the scan.

I can select particular folders to scan but I think? it is probably important that the Windows/system32 folder gets scanned.

Anyone else have this problem/ know of a solution??

Thanks

[francois]

hi'

Whenever I do a complete system virus scan it always hangs at a file somewhere in C/windows/system32/*.*

it looks like that something is installed into your system ...

it might be a trojan that can modify the behavior of some antivirus ...

if norton can't get rid of this, try an anti-trojan program.

you can also run spybot or adaware ... find the faulty.

I won't be surprised that you come back and say, I found something wrong

a good anti-trojan prog : Trojan remover now in version 6.3x

for spybot and adaware ...

here :

Spybot search & destroy

AdAware

for Trojan remover Trojan Remover

try this and tell us ...

good luck

francois

[Sporting Dog]

merci francois,

I have been using adaware and spybot for a long time - nothing found

I tried the Trojan Remover - nothing found.

I just ran Norton Anti virus - it hung at C:\windows\system32\appmgmt\(a directory with random numbers etc)\ which the file explorer showed as empty.

I deleted that directory, ran the scanner over just the C:\windows\system32 folder and it scanned the lot with no problems showing up.

(There is also a directory c:\windows\system32\appmgmt\MACHINE which seems to have nothing in it.)

SO I don't know why its having the problem when scanning My Computer.

I read someting on the net about XP roaming profiles not exiting after use and ending up in C:\windows\system32\appmgmt\ - but then my eyes starting glazing over - above my level of understanding .

My computer works OK - but Norton keeps warning me that I haven't done a full scan for a long time.

Francois can you reccommend a good free virus scanner I can get off the web?

Thanks muchly for your help and suggestions

PS I've just done a full virus scan since deleting that directory and it completed with no viruses shown

[francois]

hi'

I have the same files ... they don't block NAV ...

they are empty ... why so? ... I have no idea ... will look for

you can try AVG6 free ...

but it doesn't work with Sp2

make a search for AVG ... you'll find it easy

take a look at the thread freeware ... it's a gold mine

cheers

francois