Who says Norton's useless?

[Suno_Regin]

Out of nowhere, while I was running a Windows online scan, Norton found a random virus trying to access some file on my computer (it said RECYCLER in the virus address...is it going for my recycle bin? o.O) and a few seconds later it said it was solved. Who says norton's useless? The online scan didn't even pick that up.

[Suno_Regin]

This is sort of a breakoff of my other post about norton, but it's a separate topic of discussion. Now, my full system scan just got done, and apperantly I got a backdoor virus called...and you're probably not going to believe me "fuckoff1."

This sounds like something some kid gave to me. Does anyone have any idea where I could've picked up a virus like this?

[lordraleigh]

This is sort of a breakoff of my other post about norton, but it's a separate topic of discussion. Now, my full system scan just got done, and apperantly I got a backdoor virus called...and you're probably not going to believe me "fuckoff1."
This sounds like something some kid gave to me. Does anyone have any idea where I could've picked up a virus like this?

Here are some possibilities

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But it is more probable to be this one  :

[Suno_Regin]

Nope.

[lordraleigh]

Nope.

Are you sure? You just picked it right now! Your signature became infected. 

[Datruth]

Norton antivirus is useless.

It's heurostics arn't near what they should be.

The proven best antivirus, is "NOD32" by Eset.

There is a rumor bill gates himself uses this antivirus.

No joke, it has the best heurostics out of every antivirus:

http://www.eset.com/index.php

I'd say, this is just my opinion, but after all the reading i've done comparing other antiviruses i'd have to say, Nod32, in tests, has always done better.

OH and nod32 only uses 25k Computer virtual memory usage, When i had Norton Internet Securtiy, i was at about 60k, 3 times more memory.

~~Datruth

[Annah]

Antiviruses are mostly useless... I wonder why I've never used one in the past 5 years, though I was never infected.

[Datruth]

Antiviruses are mostly useless... I wonder why I've never used one in the past 5 years, though I was never infected.

Lol annah you're mostly right.

The best form of protection i'd say is an External hard drive, everyone should have one.

And maybe you didnt' get infected because you weren't hip with US trends.

For some reason, we like making viruses here, and they tend to target the US audience, basically we screw ourselves.

Be glad you weren't caught in the crossfire. 

~~Datruth

[LARAGORN]

Antiviruses are mostly useless... I wonder why I've never used one in the past 5 years, though I was never infected.

How do you know you wernt infected ?
Your system dosent need to crash or have corrupt programs. A lot of the sh*t out there simply uses the resources of your system for attacks on others, or simply looks though your stuff to see what it can use. Most of these would never be detected and your system will still function properly.

[Annah]

When the system is running THE SAME (no "phantom" processes, no slower performance in different kind of applications, same memory usage and a lot others) for a long period of time, well, you're not infected. And Windows Server 2003 is way better when it comes to security, try it.

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oh, and I use a router.

[emeraldfool]

Antiviruses are mostly useless... I wonder why I've never used one in the past 5 years, though I was never infected.

Lol annah you're mostly right.

The best form of protection i'd say is an External hard drive, everyone should have one.

My external hard-drive was hit by a virus. 15 GBs of stuff totally corrupted. I still have no idea how it happened...

[Idoru]

Never used it so I cant really comment on it. I personally would have to 2nd Datruth's opinion and say that I do like NOD32 alot.

[ThomPhoenix]

I don't like Norton, the way it "secures" your pc is by simply locking it down 100%. Many programs can't cope with that so they stop working, at least in my experience. I dislike Mcafee too, it's expensive, unstable and not even secure. I use the free viruscanner Avast! now and I haven't gotten a single virus or crash related to it since.

[Kiirani]

I had norton come with my laptop, then there was all this fuss over some worm or other and our neighbour installed a patch for it, and norton stopped working, kept complaining it had been 'tampered with'.

I don't get viruses these days anyway

[lordraleigh]

Antiviruses are mostly useless... I wonder why I've never used one in the past 5 years, though I was never infected.

I also don't use one for years and never got my computer infected. There is a much more effective way of securing your computer(Although I did not employ this method yet for several compatibility reasons, oh how would be happy the day when most software will work in Linux!)

Delete - Konqueror
Do you really wish to delete this item:
/mnt/hda1/Windows
YES

and then to guarantee no freaking virus or spyware will ever come:

Do you wish to format the partition /dev/hda1 as ReiserFS?
YES

If you can and do this you will never have problems with virus again, I asure it!