Can I trust Norton AV?

[Colin Bearfield]

3 days later my computer is still infected with these 2 files. I have
downloaded updates etc. How do I delete them?

Colin

 

[Blevins]

How do you get Nod32 and how much is it?

www.nod32,com

 

[Ed >:-)]

I installed Norton AV 4 days ago. The scan found my computer to be
clean, which is what I expected.

2 days ago it found 1 infected file and dealt with it. Just in time I
thought.

The weekly scan happened tonight and it found 181. 181 in 2 days. 2
of them were on jpgs that I had just unloaded from my camera to an
empty folder "RecentPics".

2 of them couldn't be deleted or quarantined:

DX3DRndr.exe W32.Gibe@mm this one occurred many times and
had been deleted.

libupdate32.exe backdoor.Bionet again it had been deleted many
times.

Is Norton AV just telling fairy stories to worry me?

Colin

While i am prone to agree with what i'm sure is a majority of the posters here about not trusting completely.
I do use it as my default AV. It scans my mail and so forth and has been very good in detecting most of the
bugs coming in. However. I also have Panda, Mcafee, AVP and 1-2 off the wall "generic" AV programs
I've gotten from the news groups over the years. I run them all for system scans. Haven't had any noteworthy
Virus infections for several years. The only couple that actually did take i was down for about an hour or 2
and that was because i got bored with the removal issues and said screw it. formatted and reset everything.
I use multiple HD so my data is on a different drive. Format C: and off we go. (Plus a couple backups of course.)
I'm becoming increasingly disappointed with McAfee. Guy got a e-mail last week with the photo.zip in it. (W32.mimail.c@mm)
Norton picked it up. Mcafee didn't.

 

[Charlie]

According to Blevins sir, this is either a total impossibility or you are a
liar...

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I'm becoming increasingly disappointed with McAfee. Guy got a e-mail last
week with the photo.zip in it. (W32.mimail.c@mm)
Norton picked it up. Mcafee didn't.
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So which is it..????

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Charlie in Mississipi

While i am prone to agree with what i'm sure is a majority of the posters

here about not trusting completely.

I do use it as my default AV. It scans my mail and so forth and has been

very good in detecting most of the

bugs coming in. However. I also have Panda, Mcafee, AVP and 1-2 off the wall "generic" AV programs
I've gotten from the news groups over the years. I run them all for system

scans. Haven't had any noteworthy

Virus infections for several years. The only couple that actually did take

i was down for about an hour or 2

and that was because i got bored with the removal issues and said screw

it. formatted and reset everything.

I use multiple HD so my data is on a different drive. Format C: and off we

go. (Plus a couple backups of course.)

I'm becoming increasingly disappointed with McAfee. Guy got a e-mail last

week with the photo.zip in it. (W32.mimail.c@mm)