How to protect yourself from viruses/trojans/spyware

[Muderman24]

norton's is fine...i have never seen anyone problems with norton's....and if someone has a problem with it, it's 99% users fault

[TheApossal]

hey you backed me up yea.and who gave me a bad repuation on this!thats why im posting now..

[Tonberry]

Norton is not fine i asked a computer tech and he said it was terrible
another one said that it could stuff up bios ok so it is not my opinion it is the truth

[Muderman24]

like i said 99% of people who have problems with nortons its there own fault...i know plenty of people and millons of othere have no problem with it, if it was a norton's problem everyone would have the same problem but not everyone has problems with it only the people who don't know what they are doing

[SpoonMan999]

I have Norton, Zone Alarm, and Ad Aware and only the occasional worm gets in when I'm downloading from Kazaa. Only reason it gets in is cause Kazaa keeps dl records so you can preview files but since they are temp files being used by Kazaa you have to cancel or finish the dl before it can be fixed. I never cancel sine the dl files are like 3423543.dat I never know which file has the virus so I let it finish and the problem is solved.

[yazzi]

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=438 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=black16 width=418>Virus Status: Infected!
Your computer is infected with at least one known virus or Trojan horse. </TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=bottom colSpan=2 height=19></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top bgColor=#f6f6f6 colSpan=2 height=317><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD colSpan=3 height=20> </TD></TR><TR><TD width=32> </TD><TD class=black10 vAlign=top width=374><SCRIPT language=JavaScript> document.writeln("" + iFilesScanned + " files scanned, " + iFilesScannedInfected + " file(s) infected on your disk drives.

") </SCRIPT>43210 files scanned, 55 file(s) infected on your disk drives.

</TD><TD width=32> </TD></TR><TR><TD width=32> </TD><TD colSpan=2><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=black10>No viruses were detected in memory.

Your computer is free of known viruses and Trojan horses. Virus Detection does not check compressed files.

Your computer appears safe for now. If you want to protect your computer from viruses, hackers and privacy threats, upgrade to Norton Internet Security™.

</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=black10>No viruses were detected in memory.

The scan was cancelled before finishing. To restart the scan, click here.

Your computer is free of known viruses and Trojan horses. Virus Detection does not check compressed files.

Your computer appears safe for now. If you want to protect your computer from viruses, hackers and privacy threats, upgrade to Norton Internet Security™.

</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=red16>Warning! The scan detected a virus that is active in your computer's memory. The scan ended to prevent further infection. You should shut down your computer immediately and restart it with an antivirus rescue disk or similar tool.

</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=black10>No viruses were detected in memory.

Your computer is infected with at least one known virus or Trojan horse.

Search for the name of the virus(s) listed below on the Symantec Security Response site for removal information.

</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=black10>No viruses were detected in memory.

Your computer is infected with at least one known virus or Trojan horse.

Note: The scan was cancelled before finishing. There may be more infected files on this computer.

Search for the name of the virus(s) listed below on the Symantec Security Response site for removal information.

</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>A scan has not been run. To start Virus Detection, click here.

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hehe.....thanx muderman . also, (tell me if this is off topic) my taksbar keeps dissapearing like the auto-hid feature isnt on and itll dissapear, reappear, dissapear, reapear, etc etc. do u no what the problem is?

[Muderman24]

hehe.....thanx muderman . also, (tell me if this is off topic) my taksbar keeps dissapearing like the auto-hid feature isnt on and itll dissapear, reappear, dissapear, reapear, etc etc. do u no what the problem is?

sounds liek the auto hide feature is on but if it isn't try locking the taskbar by right clicking on it and locking

[yazzi]

no, the auto-hide feature isnt on, its like explorer.exe keeps closing and restarting. bcuz if look at my desktop, the icons dissapear w/ the start menu. the auto-hide feature isnt on and it is locked--im not THAT computer illiterate to try that first.

[Muderman24]

well try putting in your win xp cd and going to the dos promt and type sfc /scannow

[yazzi]

windows integrity files were good. but after that explorer.exe still kept shutting down so i had to reinstall windows xp. lost 3 days work.

[Tonberry]

like i said 99% of people who have problems with nortons its there own fault...i know plenty of people and millons of othere have no problem with it, if it was a norton's problem everyone would have the same problem but not everyone has problems with it only the people who don't know what they are doing

look maybe its those millions of people who are stupid and dont know what they are doing i would say that 2 computer technicians are probably right not millions of inexperienced people ok...
also it USED to stuff around in BIOS now it only stops working every 2 months and needs to be reinstalled ok
other wise it dosent work
will get info on why it dosent work ok
dont flame me

[Muderman24]

look maybe its those millions of people who are stupid and dont know what they are doing i would say that 2 computer technicians are probably right not millions of inexperienced people ok...

i never said the millions of people were inexperienced,and beliveing 2 "so-called techs" that are given there opinion is not the way to judge a reliable company like symantec they have been making products for yrs and will continue because there is nothing wrong with there products problems arise for users, if they were as bad as you or everything else think they are it would not have been released

[SpoonMan999]

Either not released or lots of complaints and I've never heard anyone have any problems with Norton, at least nobody I know irl. I've heard of people posting about some problems on forums but I've never had a problem with it and neither have any of my friends.

[Tonberry]

as i said it now does not stuff around in BIOS
it used to .well ive seen it do this ,it may have been an old version, but it skrewed someones computer up so badly that they had to reformet the HD and they are not connected to the internet so it was not a virus
they are not so called techs they are legit one of them teaches at tafe ok...
and he constantly gets computers to repair and ive never seen him use nortons and he told me that he had seen norton stuff a computer up before
he also told me that norton has some bugs in it major ones
and this is not an opinion of his it is a fact/experience OK

[EverLast]

Yazzi sorry 4 this noob question but whitch one did u use that gave u that results? looks good to me

[yazzi]

as i said it now does not stuff around in BIOS
it used to .well ive seen it do this ,it may have been an old version, but it skrewed someones computer up so badly that they had to reformet the HD and they are not connected to the internet so it was not a virus
they are not so called techs they are legit one of them teaches at tafe ok...
and he constantly gets computers to repair and ive never seen him use nortons and he told me that he had seen norton stuff a computer up before
he also told me that norton has some bugs in it major ones
and this is not an opinion of his it is a fact/experience OK

just bcuz he's experienced doesnt mean hes an expert. hell man i can assemble a computer from scratch but I'm screwed when it comes to protecting myself. but also if i say installing ur pci card b4 ur hd is good (which it isnt) just bcuz i do it all the time doesnt mean im right. =\. and in reply to the other post right above this. I used the online norton/symantec one.

[laMe]

thank you this is very helpfull!!

[Veck]

Damn. Thanks bro.

[Captian Becard]

omg if ubleieve his norton sorty that it ****s ur bios you need 2 go drown urself.obviiusly this cheap niga donwlaoded something from kazaa latelt lol norton can be exploited and idoubt u were up 2 date on virus defintions or anything.shit u probably downlaoded norton itself form kazaa rofl.

[Tonberry]

look i know what im talking about i DONT dl norton BECAUSE it is bad if you think it is good YOU are the ***IN IDIOT not me .OK i dont care what you THINK i KNOW that norton is BAD it is a bad program it DOSENT completely protect your computer ok.
ive already said this many times it USED TO **** around in bios it dosent any more they fixed that OK