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zepphead

hi,
i have just done my weekend virus-spy-adware.
scans norton detected nothing,adwar se,usual cookies,
but when i ran the new defender from micro, it found,

these atomwire trojanvidio.xml and rom xsd
why am i paying for norton if it carnt detect,
these its the second time this has happend,
diferant virus last time,i never liked micro beta
anti spy-but i do like this new defender,,
i just wonderd can anybody explain this to me??

thanks for your time...cheers..
 
zepphead said:
hi,
i have just done my weekend virus-spy-adware.
scans norton detected nothing,adwar se,usual cookies,
but when i ran the new defender from micro, it found,

these atomwire trojanvidio.xml and rom xsd
why am i paying for norton if it carnt detect,
these its the second time this has happend,
diferant virus last time,i never liked micro beta
anti spy-but i do like this new defender,,
i just wonderd can anybody explain this to me??

thanks for your time...cheers..
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How do you know that Defender is correct and not displaying a false
positive?

A link for free online virus and trojan scanners.
http://virusall.com/downscan.html
 
You could most probably scan with lots of spyware scanners and get different
results, they don't all have the same definition files, so you will find that
some find what other's don't and vice versa.

Andy W
 
MAP said:
zepphead wrote:
hi,
i have just done my weekend virus-spy-adware.
scans norton detected nothing,adwar se,usual cookies,
but when i ran the new defender from micro, it found,

these atomwire trojanvidio.xml and rom xsd
why am i paying for norton if it carnt detect,
these its the second time this has happend,
diferant virus last time,i never liked micro beta
anti spy-but i do like this new defender,,
i just wonderd can anybody explain this to me??

thanks for your time...cheers..

How do you know that Defender is correct and not displaying a false
positive?

A link for free online virus and trojan scanners.
http://virusall.com/downscan.html
Click to expand...

hi,mike
i know its not false posatives because
i have ran a couple of scans with it with
different results each time,,yet again i
have heard of false positives surely this
is theft by deception???

thanks for your time....
 
Andy said:
You could most probably scan with lots of spyware scanners and get
different
results, they don't all have the same definition files, so you will
find that
some find what other's don't and vice versa.

Andy W

:

zepphead wrote:
hi,
i have just done my weekend virus-spy-adware.
scans norton detected nothing,adwar se,usual cookies,
but when i ran the new defender from micro, it found,

these atomwire trojanvidio.xml and rom xsd
why am i paying for norton if it carnt detect,
these its the second time this has happend,
diferant virus last time,i never liked micro beta
anti spy-but i do like this new defender,,
i just wonderd can anybody explain this to me??

thanks for your time...cheers..

How do you know that Defender is correct and not displaying a false
positive?

A link for free online virus and trojan scanners.
http://virusall.com/downscan.html
Click to expand...
yes andy i know about differant results
from differant programs,i use 3-4 differant
scaners each time i clean up,,i dont pay ££25
a year for them some i paid for some are free...
 
No matter how many times you scan , if it is false positive , it will appear
again and again because it is in the definitions .

To make sure it is / isn't false posotive:

Scan your computer with Panda's free Active Scan for ALL kind of threats:
http://www.activescan.com

Panda_man
 
zepphead said:
hi,mike
i know its not false posatives because
i have ran a couple of scans with it with
different results each time,,yet again i
have heard of false positives surely this
is theft by deception???

thanks for your time....
Click to expand...

All I can say is, I rid my system of all Norton products 2 years ago and my
computer is much happier for it!

http://www.nod32.com/download/trial.htm


Even through this Malware scanner is fairly new it does already have a good
reputation, you might want to give it a try for free (at least for a short
time).

http://www.ewido.net/en/
 
Panda_man said:
No matter how many times you scan , if it is false positive , it will
appear
again and again because it is in the definitions .

To make sure it is / isn't false posotive:

Scan your computer with Panda's free Active Scan for ALL kind of
threats:
http://www.activescan.com

Panda_man
--
Prevention is always better than cure !
Panda TruPrevent - the most intelligent technology to combat unknown
malware
http://www.pandasoftware.com
http://pandaman.hit.bg


:


MAP Wrote:
zepphead wrote:
hi,
i have just done my weekend virus-spy-adware.
scans norton detected nothing,adwar se,usual cookies,
but when i ran the new defender from micro, it found,

these atomwire trojanvidio.xml and rom xsd
why am i paying for norton if it carnt detect,
these its the second time this has happend,
diferant virus last time,i never liked micro beta
anti spy-but i do like this new defender,,
i just wonderd can anybody explain this to me??

thanks for your time...cheers..

How do you know that Defender is correct and not displaying a false
positive?

A link for free online virus and trojan scanners.
http://virusall.com/downscan.html

--
Mike Pawlak

hi,mike
i know its not false posatives because
i have ran a couple of scans with it with
different results each time,,yet again i
have heard of false positives surely this
is theft by deception???

thanks for your time....
Click to expand...

hi,panda man,
thanks for your time,,lately i run a new scanner
copy resuls then look them up maually..
im off to the site you posted..cheers,,,
 
Upload the file to Norton and contact them for a follow up. Also run two or
three online scanners to and compare the results. Update Norton by
downloading the newest definitions yourself not via Live Update.

Norton Daily Downloads
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/download/pages/US-N95.html

The filename changes daily. Here is todays.
http://definitions.symantec.com/defs/20060226-004-i32.exe

AVG Antivirus
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

Avast
http://www.avast.com/

Online Anti Virus
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/


MULTI_AV.EXE
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe
 
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