Holy Norton is shit
Dude if u have norton uninstall it and get malwarebytes instead
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Norton IS a Virus, if you have it, remove it immediately.... (facepalm)
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Honestly I wish you the best luck on removing it when you do...if memory serves right its like the most stubborn virus I ever dealt with, its a PAIN to remove, I mean I had to boot into safe mode and locate every piece of it, even in the registries to destroy it. It kept repairing itself(Kinda like Cell from Dragon Ball Z) and coming back telling me to buy a new subscription. It also doesn't catch anything really...it always seemed weeks behind on its database.
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Depends, you might have caught nothing, depends if your sources are clean I guess.
But hell I caught I virus by clicking on a friends profile picture on Facebook once...didn't even see that coming.
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BleepingComputer has tools from the major AV devs specifically made to (near)completely remove their respective AVs. Made for clean reinstalls, but useful when you just want to be rid of a tool. McAfee's is usually pretty thorough, but Symantec's is about as bad at removing Norton as Norton is at removing infections :P
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This was years ago, didn't know about that sadly if it did exist.
Ehh whatever I kinda don't mind so much, its a learning experience :-P.
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+1
The only free software that I would trust is MSE.
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You do realize malwarebytes isn't an antivirus -,-
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Yes it is.
Malwarebytes will give you the options of ignoring the virus or allow it or just cancel from opening.
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Let me rephrase. You do realize malwarebytes doesn't have the same Excellent detection rate for VIRUS as he has for spyware. etc. But, believe what you like.
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malwarebytes isn't the only thing you should depend on but it's definitely worth installing
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It's called MALWAREbytes. Malware are viruses which means it includes every other kind. If it is mostly for spywares then it should be called spywarebytes. Dont argue if you dont know what youre talking about.
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I use Avira and it's been pretty good, but the advertising popups keep increasing and the control over updates keeps decreasing, so it's difficult to recommend it with the way it's going.
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And then there's the false positives as well. I think in the year I had it it found three viruses. All three were false positives, one of them made a program I used often stop working.
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I get a lot of false positives when I'm watching demoscene stuff, though that's to be expected and I just disable the guard for those. But if it's interfering with everyday stuff, that's pretty bad.
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Yeah, it detected the dll of one of my most often used photoshop plugins as a virus. I love Topaz Vivacity, and it definitely isn't a virus, yet Avira thought it was. I even sent it to them and they said it wasn't a virus and it was added in an update I had to not detect it any longer and still was detecting. Added an exception for it, but it often would ignore the exception and detect the plugin as a virus when I used it.
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BitDefender is bypassed more times than not, just because you can't notice something is there, doesn't mean it's not.
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I thought so too, until it locked me out of some of my own documents and claimed that they were malicious scripts. Apparently you cannot remove false positives from Avast yourself and need to send those files to the company labs to unlock for you. That was the end of Avast for me. MSE doesn't restrict access from me when I know better.
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This. The top 3 antivirals are MSE, aVira! and AVAST ( AVG is not good anymore )
From the 3 I mentioned, MSE has like 88% detection rate, aVira has 91 and AVAST 95 (please note it's an approx)
BUT I chose Microsoft Security Essentials because it runs very smooth in the background. It's got a very small memory consumption. The other ones are quite heavy, compared to
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Use Microsoft Security Essentials because I hate crap that pops up every 5 minutes.
"Updates complete"
"Please update"
"Hi how are you today"
"You haven't scanned your system lately"
"Why do you ignore me"
"UPDATE FAILED"
Thats every other virus scan I ever used.
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I really recommend Avast, Avira, or AVG for virus protection. In my opinion I think Avast would be the best for real-time protection but if you need to remove viruses then Malwarebytes Anti-Malware would be the best since I know plenty of people that use it and it is very effective in removing viruses.
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