View Full Version : Norton AntiVirus is Itself, A Virus
I've always hated Norton from the beginning, but it came pre-installed on this laptop from the factory and I am lazy so it stayed. For servers where you got Chinese crackers scanning ports 24/7 and bruteforcing root then maybe antivirus and shit makes sense. But for home PC, you have to be a moran. I've never bothered with antivirus and believe me I have been through the slums of internets, 0 problems but most people are morans so your mileage may vary.
Besides constantly eating up enormous amounts of needless memory and processor power 24/7 to spam me about data mining cookies (.txt files who cares) occasionally, it was ignored.
Then I'm trying to run this program today that fuxup windoze (http://wutdo.com/notavirus.exe), but when I moved the .exe out of the .zip it would get auto-deleted by Norton and I'd get a popup saying Trojan fixt! Even when I disabled the damn thing.
So I uninstalled the piece of shit. Oh and of course it took its sweet ass time, so not only did I uninstall it, I searched meticulously for all remnants of anything mentioning Norton or Synaptic to ensure total destroyal of the annoying beast.
Ran my program, restarted computer to a fucking Norton notice!
EnnoiaII
10-22-2011, 07:42 PM
I've always hated Norton from the beginning, but it came pre-installed on this laptop from the factory and I am lazy so it stayed. For servers where you got Chinese crackers scanning ports 24/7 and bruteforcing root then maybe antivirus and shit makes sense. But for home PC, you have to be a moran. I've never bothered with antivirus and believe me I have been through the slums of internets, 0 problems but most people are morans so your mileage may vary.
Besides constantly eating up enormous amounts of needless memory and processor power 24/7 to spam me about data mining cookies (.txt files who cares) occasionally, it was ignored.
Then I'm trying to run this program today that fuxup windoze (http://wutdo.com/notavirus.exe), but when I moved the .exe out of the .zip it would get auto-deleted by Norton and I'd get a popup saying Trojan fixt! Even when I disabled the damn thing.
So I uninstalled the piece of shit. Oh and of course it took its sweet ass time, so not only did I uninstall it, I searched meticulously for all remnants of anything mentioning Norton or Synaptic to ensure total destroyal of the annoying beast.
Ran my program, restarted computer to a fucking Norton notice!
There's probably an uninstall program you have to download (and probably pay for) to get rid of Norton. That's how it worked with...whatever the fuck antivirus I used to have that I can't remember right now. Just get Spybot and you're all set.
Tommy_Wiseau
10-22-2011, 07:45 PM
what happen if i run program??
notavirus.exe (WS.REPUTATION.1)
Risk: Medium
Threat type: Insight Network Threat. There are many indications that this file is untrustworthy and therefore not safe
Humerox
10-22-2011, 08:04 PM
Use the Norton Removal Tool (https://www-secure.symantec.com/norton-support/jsp/help-solutions.jsp?lg=english&ct=united+states&docid=20080710133834EN&product=home&version=1&pvid=f-home) to get rid of it. I use AVAST (http://www.avast.com/en-us/index), others might recommend AVG (http://free.avg.com/us-en/homepage) but I got ticked at them when they stopped supporting the free product the first time around. It's free again, so ymmv.
Good luck!
Humerox
10-22-2011, 08:10 PM
Just get Spybot and you're all set.
That's a decent spyware removal tool, but it does jack as an anti-virus. I'd recommend it in addition to one of the AV's I mentioned.
Humerox
10-22-2011, 08:15 PM
Noticed your hatred of AV's...I bet 50 bucks if you run Malwarebytes (http://www.malwarebytes.org/) you'll be in for a shock. If not, you're the luckiest SoB surfing the net.
Doors
10-22-2011, 08:30 PM
The internet is itself a virus.
vitalious
10-22-2011, 08:42 PM
That's a decent spyware removal tool, but it does jack as an anti-virus. I'd recommend it in addition to one of the AV's I mentioned.
I'm the same as Naez. I ran Malware once and nothing severe came up.
jarshale
10-23-2011, 12:36 AM
Noticed your hatred of AV's...I bet 50 bucks if you run Malwarebytes (http://www.malwarebytes.org/) you'll be in for a shock. If not, you're the luckiest SoB surfing the net.
This is all I use, never really had a problem with viruses though. But unlike most people I also don't click on stupid shit.
the only thing i can think of was some time ago some guy was tryna gimme hacks for EQLive and I quickly ran dependency walker and found his shitty keylogger footprint
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