Avast or Norton. Who should I trust?

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Since seeing many people recommend Avast I decided to check it out. It
said I had a virus, Norton 2009 finds no such virus. Which program
should I believe?
 
fatsteve said:
Since seeing many people recommend Avast I decided to check it out.
It said I had a virus, Norton 2009 finds no such virus. Which
program should I believe?
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Neither. Submit the file to an online checker, such as:
http://virusscan.jotti.org/

Were both of these a-v apps running/active at the same time? Have you
considered getting rid of Bloated Norton?
 
Beauregard said:
Neither. Submit the file to an online checker, such as:
http://virusscan.jotti.org/

Were both of these a-v apps running/active at the same time? Have you
considered getting rid of Bloated Norton?
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Yes that was my reason for trying Avast as I thought Norton was a little
heavy on system resources. I uninstalled Norton before I tried Avast so
I would only be running one A/V program at one time. I have since gone
back to using Norton.

Thanks for the link, what a cool site. Here are the results from the site.

File: FlyDS.exe
Status: POSSIBLY INFECTED/MALWARE (Note: this file has been scanned
before. Therefore, this file's scan results will not be stored in the
database) (Note: this file was only classified as malware by scanners
known to generate more false positives than the average scanner. Do not
consider these results definately accurate. Also, because of this,
results of this scan will not be recorded in the database.)
MD5: ded73c71c7d4998809d6ff90eeb46169
Packers detected: PE_PATCH, UPX

Scanner results
Scan taken on 18 Oct 2008 18:53:31 (GMT)
A-Squared Found nothing
AntiVir Found nothing
ArcaVir Found nothing
Avast Found Win32:Oliga
AVG Antivirus Found nothing
BitDefender Found nothing
ClamAV Found nothing
CPsecure Found nothing
Dr.Web Found nothing
F-Prot Antivirus Found nothing
F-Secure Anti-Virus Found nothing
G DATA Found nothing
Ikarus Found nothing
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Found nothing
NOD32 Found nothing
Norman Virus Control Found nothing
Panda Antivirus Found nothing
Sophos Antivirus Found nothing
VirusBuster Found nothing
VBA32 Found nothing
 
fatsteve said:
Yes that was my reason for trying Avast as I thought Norton was a
little heavy on system resources. I uninstalled Norton before I
tried Avast so I would only be running one A/V program at one time. I
have since gone back to using Norton.
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Sorry to see you went back to Norton. :-(
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039
Thanks for the link, what a cool site. Here are the results from the
site.

File: FlyDS.exe
Status: POSSIBLY INFECTED/MALWARE (Note: this file has been scanned
before. Therefore, this file's scan results will not be stored in the
database) (Note: this file was only classified as malware by scanners
known to generate more false positives than the average scanner. Do not
consider these results definately accurate. Also, because of this,
results of this scan will not be recorded in the database.)
MD5: ded73c71c7d4998809d6ff90eeb46169
Packers detected: PE_PATCH, UPX

Scanner results
Scan taken on 18 Oct 2008 18:53:31 (GMT)
Avast Found Win32:Oliga
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A google for flyds.exe seems to indicate it is some sort of video/audio
software. Perhaps that is a false positive, as the text above might
indicate.
 
Since seeing many people recommend Avast I decided to check it out.  It
said I had a virus,  Norton 2009 finds no such virus.  Which program
should I believe?
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Neither would be your best choice. Avast has poor detection rates and
Norton is bloatware.
 
Since seeing many people recommend Avast I decided to check it out. It
said I had a virus, Norton 2009 finds no such virus. Which program
should I believe?
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Neither would be your best choice. Avast has poor detection rates and
Norton is bloatware.


NAV 2009 is very light on resources and very speedy as well as testing very high in detection and cleaning.
Maybe you need to update your line of bullshit. Let me guess you are an eset shill..eh?
 
NAV 2009 is very light on resources and very speedy as well as testing very high in detection and cleaning.
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NAV has decent detection, but it's still bloatware. The exception
being their Corporate version.
 
NAV has decent detection, but it's still bloatware. The exception
being their Corporate version.
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Reports from other sources also suggest that the 2009 version of
Norton has been improved dramatically regarding resource use and
speed.
 
FWIW, I installed NAV some years ago because it came on the mobo disk.

Never again.
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There's a lot of people that feel that way, Charles Johnson is not one
of them.

I did use the Corporate version a couple of years back and it was
pretty impressive. It was like Norton for adults. Why they just
couldn't make their commercial version as good I do not know.
 
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