RE: WARNING TO NORTON USERS

From: MAP (MAP_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/08/04


Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 03:59:01 -0700


"Pissed Off" wrote:

> 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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