WARNING TO NORTON USERS

From: Pissed Off (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/07/04

  • Next message: Thomas Niemann: "VIRUS on my Server? Winlogon.exe_ started by MS Print spooler" 
    Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 03:21:40 -0700

    If anyone is using Norton anti virus should be made aware
    that they could have viruses in their system and not even
    know it.

    We have been using the Norton anti virus program thinking
    that it was the best and have even renewed our
    subscription. A friend told us that we should try AVG
    anti virus. We installed the program onto our system and
    then did a scan only to discover that we had 20 trojans
    in our system...19 of which AVG eleminated and isolated
    one.

    Another proplem I find with Norton is that I have it set
    to do a system scan at start up but has never worked
    since we have had the computer. Norton is also to do
    auto protect which is suppose to prevent viruses and
    trojans from getting into your system, which I'm now
    convinced does not work either even though it did
    updates on most of the viruses that we had in our system,
    it failed to detect them.

    Hope this was of help to those plaqued with trojans and I
    hope you get rid of them.

    Pissed off

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