Norton 2000 AV

[LTF]

Program closes straight away when opened, any ideas? Tried a reinstall, still happening

Running under win98...

 

[WPKenny]

MIGHT be a virus. But don't quote me on that. Best thing to do is go to google and do a searchfor online virus checkers. They'll download little apps and tell you if you're infected. I think most of them are smart enough not to be closed by any infections.

My dad had a virus about a year or so ago. It modified the winsock.dll file and used to crash IE if it ever started to load a page containing certain words : symantec, norton, mcaffee etc etc.

The can be a right pain in the arse some times.

 

[LTF]

Cheers Kenny, whats the best free one?

 

[S-Gray]

Just get Norton 2001?

Obviously you would have to buy it..

 

[Summo]

Or 2003? LIVE IN THE NOW!

 

[LTF]

 

[MYstIC G]

Originally posted by d0nk3h
Cheers Kenny, whats the best free one?

http://www.grisoft.com/

ugly but free

 

[PR.]

Download the tool here

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.bugbear@mm.removal.tool.html


50p says you are infected with this.

And get 2003

 

[granny]

I don't trust norton any more after it completely destroyed a winXP install....

 

[PR.]

I wub Norton....

McAfee = The Shits

 

[S-Gray]

heh i like Norton too.. no problems with my version, altho i always feel like something is watching me... heh

 

[xane]

I still use Norton AV 2000, the auto-upgrade actually puts it at 2001

AFAIK NAV doesn't like working with ZIP managers, if you have some sort of automatic ZIP file extractor in the systray it will need to be disabled.

 

[.cage]

Originally posted by Summo
Or 2003? LIVE IN THE NOW!

2003 :/

 

[Hashmonster]

thats definately bugbear or similar, it was doing that to our norton at work..

so we download a demo version of mcafee and wohay... for now

 

[S-Gray]

Guess the Virus Creator thought McAfee wasnt good enough

 

[]SK[]

Heh every bugbear infection ive seen hasnt closed the av running. If it aint a bug bear infection that sounds like a Klez one, but I would hope your definitions arnt that old

I use AVG and once a day check for updates. Where once a month used to be enough to check for new ones, I set all my customers PC's on once a day.

 

[whipped]

Best online virus scanner that is easy to use that I have come across is this.

Housecall Antivirus

 

[dysfunction]

I prefer McAfee to Norton...it works in the background a lot more efficiently

 

[GDW]

Mcafee still has some notorius installation problems though. One being that if you install the trial and use it untill it expires and then purchase a copy from a store and try to install it ( yes after unistalling the demo) it wont work.

You need to be a bit of a reg wizard to sort out the problem, which most users arent........waydago Mcafee

 

[MYstIC G]

Originally posted by Grandadwrinkle
Mcafee still has some notorius installation problems though.

It also manages to make its interface worse with every release. More so than Norton do (which is impressive since NAVs interface is cack).

 

[xane]

I had to give up on McAfee many years ago when I upgraded to an Athlon with a VIA chipset, the scanner refused to access the boot sector, apparently McAfee were a bit slow on modern technology at the time.

 

[LTF]

Nobody using Sophos?

 

[xane]

Originally posted by d0nk3h
Nobody using Sophos?

At £lots/year licence ? I think not.

Unless of course you work at a company that uses it and you can transfer the database

 

[LTF]

dum dee dum...

 

[WPKenny]

Kent Uni used to provide Sophos and all it's updates to all students connectd to their network. Makes sense I suppose.