Microsoft Antispyware / Norton IS --- PAHH !!!

[Stuartbe]

I have just repaired a customers computer that had the latest norton internet security bundle including the latest virus updates and microsoft antispyware....

These cost a lot of money (apart from the MS antispyware)

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Scanned with ad-aware - 4856 objects found / after reboot in safe mode another 2546 found

Scanned with AVG - 342 virus's and trojans found + 78 in the system restore folder.....

Anyone who wants to waste there time telling me that Norton is not a total pile of steaming crap is welcome to try... A software package that hoggs 40+ mbs of ram and does nothing for you... How fantastic

As for MS antispyware - Its not worth the binary it lives in !!!!

This computer was absulutely riddled with rubbish.. Its just a shame that the customer trusted the security of the computer to such a useless pile of junk as Norton...

And people actualy pay money for Norton

[Raistlin]

Originally Posted by Stuartbe

nyone who wants to waste there time telling me that Norton is not a total pile of steaming crap is welcome to try...

You won't find me arguing with you on that one

[Stuartbe]

Aditional...

Another 321 worms found in the windows folder and 23 trojan dailers detected by spybot... correction 49 found by spybot

I'm gonna be here all night

[Raistlin]

Had this a while back.

By the time I had cleared out the PC the OS was so corrupted that a fresh install was the only option.

Might be quicker/easier/safer in the long run.....
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That computer had only been used for about 6 months. The owner turned it off when he discovered it had a virus. I got the chance to have a go at cleaning it 18 months later

[Roy MM]

Wish you lived next door Stuart.

[Raistlin]

Although Stuart's probably glad he doesn't if your computer's anywhere near as bad as the one he's working on at the moment

[AndrewJ]

So WHAT IS THE recommened stuff to have.

I use Microsoft Antispyware, with Adaware se 1.06 PRO ( I PAID FOR IT! ) Spybot 1.4 with Sygate personal and avast! Home.

[Raistlin]

Originally Posted by Saxodriver

So WHAT IS THE recommened stuff to have.

I use Microsoft Antispyware, with Adaware se 1.06 PRO ( I PAID FOR IT! ) Spybot 1.4 with Sygate personal and avast! Home.

You're probably fairly safe then, provided that you keep them updated and run them regularly

[AndrewJ]

Daily they are run apart from a virus scan, although i regulary clean out my firewall application permissions and redo them as they appear, gets rid of the odd things you permit such as .tmp files for installing programs.

[Stuartbe]

sukin frukin stupid crapy ***** useless norton

Your dead right... half the system files and system restore files are totaly gone... Looks like a re-install is on the cards

[AndrewJ]

be thee stressed?

[Stuartbe]

what gives you that idea ???

[nffc]

Originally Posted by Saxodriver

So WHAT IS THE recommened stuff to have.

I use Microsoft Antispyware, with Adaware se 1.06 PRO ( I PAID FOR IT! ) Spybot 1.4 with Sygate personal and avast! Home.

/breathes in deeply

Kerio personal firewall (trial expired today)
Ad Aware free version
Spybot
MS Anti Spyware
Spyware Guard
Spyware Blaster
Avast

and that's about it... oh and I use Firefox with Flash and Java disabled.

[Stuartbe]

Managed to complete the repair without a re-install. Of course notron would not unistall so had to manualy remove it and all the associated registry keys Scanned the computer with avg overnight and found another 58 virus's and worms + adaware found another 13 ojects this morning....

User consol to copy over damaged files and instaled spywareblaster, spyware guard and KPF afterwards. The computer took from 9:00 am this morning to about 10 minutes ago to defrag

System finished and returned to customer ..... Phew !!!

[Bifta]

I've used MS Antispyware since it's release, I don't use anything else alongside it, I installed Spybot 1.4 yesterday and it found a grand total of ... absolutely nothing.