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geminian68

26-03-2005 04:17

Re: Norton Anti-Virus not detecting viruses

Hi carlingman

You were getting errors because all three sites require ActiveX, you have to allow ActiveX to install to use these sites.

I have sent you a pm with screenshots of all three sites with ActiveX both installed and not.:)

geminian68

Mal	26-03-2005 12:51

Re: Norton Anti-Virus not detecting viruses

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kits

You should get Nod 32 its better than nortons virus and updates regularly.

To be fair, Norton was regular with the updates for the virus detection and the program updates.

Avast seems to update regular as well. I've had it 3 days now and I've been updated each day :)

MadGamer

26-03-2005 13:22

Re: Norton Anti-Virus not detecting viruses

I recently downloaded AVG 7.0 and now the Email Scanner refuses to work. Ive tried a repair install as well to see if that would solve the problem, but it hasnt, whats going on?

geminian68

26-03-2005 13:24

Re: Norton Anti-Virus not detecting viruses

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mal

To be fair, Norton was regular with the updates for the virus detection and the program updates.

Avast seems to update regular as well. I've had it 3 days now and I've been updated each day :)

Hi Mal

BitDefender seems to update regularly as well. I've been using it for 5 days now and I've had updates 4 of those days, unlike Norton where sometimes there wasn't updates for days.:erm:

geminian68

geminian68

26-03-2005 13:51

Re: Norton Anti-Virus not detecting viruses

Quote:

Originally Posted by geminian68

piquet41

26-03-2005 19:07

Re: Norton Anti-Virus not detecting viruses

Quote:

Originally Posted by geminian68

Hi piquet41

I recently stopped using NIS 2005 after using Symantec for 5 years since 2000 I have used most of their products (AV, NPF, Systemworks, Utilities, CleanSweep, Ghost, PC Anywhere, CrashGuard, Partition Magic*) (*since they have taken over PowerQuest), When I said I got sick of it's resource hogging I meant when I did a virus scan it used an awful lot of CPU & Memory.

I also had the same situation as Wayne A, when Norton didn't find viruses and PC-Cillin Housecall's online scan did.

I now use BitDefender 8.0 Professional* which is similar to NPF(*AV, Firewall, Anti-Spam) which doesn't seem as hogging of resources and unlike Norton it doesn't require activation.

I have AMD XP3200+ (2.2GHz)
1024Mb PC3200 Dual Channel DDR RAM

P.S. I have:
Norton Antivirus 2005 Corporate Edition
Norton Antivirus 2005 Pro
Norton Internet Security 2005
Norton Systemworks 2005
Norton Ghost 2005
Partition Magic 2005.... and no I DON'T work for Symantec either. :)

geminian68

Hi germinian68,

Simillar spec PCs' I see, thanks for you advice and links. i've had a look at them and will keep them in mind. But until I have something go wrong (fingers crossed) or contract a virus that Norton does not pick up then I'll stick with it.....You know the saying, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
VMT
Piquet41 :)

geminian68

26-03-2005 20:36

Re: Norton Anti-Virus not detecting viruses

Quote:

Originally Posted by piquet41

Hi piquet41

I couldnÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â¢ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…Â¡Ãƒâ €šÃ‚Â¬ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…Â¾Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â¢t agree more, though I think you have the edge PC wise :)
I was very happy with NIS 2005 until it let the virus's through, you shouldn't really rely on one AV, I still use online AV scans just like spyware :Yikes: (Ad-aware Se, Spybot S&D, PcBugDoctor, MS AntiSpyware) you don't think I'm being paranoid :D

geminian68

piquet41

26-03-2005 23:04

Re: Norton Anti-Virus not detecting viruses

Quote:

Originally Posted by geminian68

Me again,

Don't suppose you can remember the name of the particular virus your Norton AV let through can you? I'll keep an eye out. If I get the same one you'll be the first to know...I'll then probably give one of those others a try
VMT
Piquet41. :cool:

Mal	26-03-2005 23:08

Re: Norton Anti-Virus not detecting viruses

:notopic:

To Gemininian68...
Couldn't you have put those screenshots as attachments? Just that it's a pain in the behind to have to scroll across to read the posts.

:)

geminian68

26-03-2005 23:23

Re: Norton Anti-Virus not detecting viruses

Quote:

Originally Posted by piquet41

No sorry, it was an online scan that just says how many viruses were found, but doesn't state what they are.:sorry:
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Quote:

Originally Posted by piquet41

No :sorry:, it was an online scan that just says how many viruses were found, but doesn't state what they are (name wise).
Just like there are things that Spybot find and Ad-aware doesn't and vice-versa, I'm sure its the same AV software, so just run one of the online scans regularly :)

carlingman

27-03-2005 03:04

Re: Norton Anti-Virus not detecting viruses

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mal

:notopic:

To Gemininian68...
Couldn't you have put those screenshots as attachments? Just that it's a pain in the behind to have to scroll across to read the posts.

:)

Hi Mal in fairness to geminian68 he did send me a PM to a link to an FTP site he had posted the errors on but I have only just got this now and he thought better to post them for all users.

:)

Quote:

Originally Posted by geminian68

Many thanks mate for trying.

Appreciate the screen shots as well but unfortunately I dont get the Windows ! telling me active x is needed.

I have check me firewall and it is not blocking Active X.

I have also checked IE Tools/ Internet Options/Security and it is ticked to prompt for active x in there.

Any other IE settings I should be looking at to override this and let this checkers run.

Appreciate any help you anyone can give on this.

I have a sneaky suspiscion ny browser is screwed and I am due for a reinstall as this seems to one of many problems with sites being blocked I am having.

See here

:D

geminian68

27-03-2005 04:35

Re: Norton Anti-Virus not detecting viruses

Quote:

Originally Posted by carlingman

I have a sneaky suspiscion ny browser is screwed and I am due for a reinstall as this seems to one of many problems with sites being blocked I am having.
See here
:D

Hi Mal :sorry:for any inconvenience caused, I did try to u/l them so I could post as attachments, but photobucket won't allow images over 250kb (which all over these exceed by some great margin). As carlingman said I did send him a PM to a link, to an FTP site I had posted the errors on but I thought better to post them for all users to see, and once posted I couldn't resize them.

Message to mods: please delete post #20

:sorry:for any inconvenience caused :o

PS I have u/l some resizable thumbnails.

Here are the resizable screenshots incase other people are interested:

Linky :)

geminian68

carlingman

31-03-2005 23:28

Re: Norton Anti-Virus not detecting viruses

Bringing this thread back up.

:tu: Thanks for all the advice on Active X settings etc.

Looks like I still have problems with Active X as and possibly flash as well.

Still cannot get the below pages to load.

http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php
http://housecall.antivirus.com/hous...start_frame.asp
http://www.pandasoftware.com/active...n_principal.htm

Up to know I have -

Checked Kerio Personal Firewall Free Version to make sure it is not blocking Active X or any sites.

Uninstalled Kerio Personal Firewall Free Version - still pages wont load
Disabled NAV 2004 - still pages wont load
Made sure the Windows Firewall is disabled
No proxy set as am on Pipex ADSL
Internet Explorer setting seems to be ok and security set to Medium.
I have tried the sites with Mozilla/Firefox but it tells me Active X is not supported with this browser.

Any other ideas greatly appreciated or a pointer to tell me what should be ticked/unticked in Internet Explorer Advanced Settings or whether restore to defaults maybe a good idea or not.

:D

SMHarman

31-03-2005 23:34

Re: Norton Anti-Virus not detecting viruses

I'm using Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2005. Running on 4 machines (these 5 machine licences are expensive!) from a desktop AMD2400 with 1GB ram to a Celeron 333 with 96MB of RAM works great.
Can't get the shared management thingy to work though.

geminian68

01-04-2005 03:08

Re: Norton Anti-Virus not detecting viruses

Hi carlingman use this site ActiveX Test which also has instructions on IE's security configuration :)

SMHarman I've never personally used that software, is this what you mean:eh:

Home Network Control
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If Windows Firewall is installed, disable it or configurate it
suitably. Otherwise it blocks network communication for Home Network
Control. Home Network Control uses UDP 40116 and TCP 62471. The
process name is PcCtlCom.exe.

If not then there is a readme document here

geminian68

I hope this assists you both :)

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