Current Virus Count

[Bank]

Today I woke up to find that my computer had slowed to a crawl. Norton Antivirus justified.

Current Virus Count - Norton Antivirus

11397 Viruses
(Most Trojans)

[Monster]

Holy SHIT. The most viruses I had were like 20, and like 100 spyware stuff. Damn. Did that all happen at once?

[Canadian*Sniper]

linux

[Bank]

google

[Mindf!3ldzX]

google > linux
^Winnah!

[Net-Tyme]

google what? How did you get that many?

[Lerster]

Norton software....

Norton Anti-virus, is nearly a virus it self.... In the sense it likes to gobble up almost 10x the resources and memory that windows does.... also, it's so well known for being bypassed by most viruses out there now.

My suggestion is disable it, and use trend micro's house call. http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

That should at least get rid of most your problems, the second step is to uninstall that troublesome, memory hog, norton anti-virus....

I recommend you switch virus softwares or rely solely on a week-to-week or every few days when you won't be around, the compter to use, housecall to take care of any suspicious activities or viruses that are cumbersome to your system proformance.

I admit, that is not the best way. But there is no best way, even linux users have bash viruses. ^_^ it's just not as common for mass viruses to effect them as most viruses that exist are: ones that are only harmful or aimmed at windows and of course, that can't access /hda/hda1 linux drives.

^_^

Goodluck.

[Bank]

Norton Anti-virus, is nearly a virus it self.... In the sense it likes to gobble up almost 10x the resources and memory that windows does.... also, it's so well known for being bypassed by most viruses out there now.

My suggestion is disable it, and use trend micro's house call. http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

That should at least get rid of most your problems, the second step is to uninstall that troublesome, memory hog, norton anti-virus....

I recommend you switch virus softwares or rely solely on a week-to-week or every few days when you won't be around, the compter to use, housecall to take care of any suspicious activities or viruses that are cumbersome to your system proformance.

I admit, that is not the best way. But there is no best way, even linux users have bash viruses. ^_^ it's just not as common for mass viruses to effect them as most viruses that exist are: ones that are only harmful or aimmed at windows and of course, that can't access /hda/hda1 linux drives.

^_^

Goodluck.

I know! I despise Norton, but everytime I try and steal Spyware Doctor (quite good), it eventually figures out and cancels my license. Last time I tried Trend Micro, it didnt work, but I can give it one more try.

[Grim]

Norton Anti-virus, is nearly a virus it self.... In the sense it likes to gobble up almost 10x the resources and memory that windows does.... also, it's so well known for being bypassed by most viruses out there now.

This is a complaint that I hear the most of. You would figure that Norton would get the hint.

[Error]

I've only ever had like 2 viruses. Trojans

Had thousands of spyware though.

Currently running on a clean machine though. And I hope it stays that way. Norton and Ad-Aware are keeping it nice and clean

[Baker]

I've only ever had like 2 viruses. Trojans

I've only had a virus once or twice, although with one of those I had to reformat 3 times before I determined I kept putting the same infected file on my hard drive.

Had thousands of spyware though.

I've only had Gator once :d

[foq]

Here is the absolute most perfectest way to not get a virus.


































No internet.

[Spirit]

NOD32 is a great virus scanner in my opinion. I don't feel any impact on the cpu (I mostly forgot about it indeed) and I think it finds most viruses.