Norton anti-virus - always detects at renewal time
03 February 2006, 09:49 PM
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Norton anti-virus - always detects at renewal time
Is it just coincidence that for the last three years the only time the kit detects and subsequently quarantines/fixes a virus is at subscription renewal time. Sophisticated renewal ploy or a random, unlikely happening 
04 February 2006, 12:30 AM
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Sounds a bit too coincidental to me, examine the log and see what the attack was supposed to be from, then do a search for info on it 
I'm sure if it's a common ploy someone will have logged it by now.
I'm sure if it's a common ploy someone will have logged it by now.
04 February 2006, 05:36 AM
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I'm not a fan of Norton or McAfee. There are so many free anti-virus programs about, including Microsoft Beta which as far as I can tell is pretty much the same.
04 February 2006, 10:11 AM
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Originally Posted by 2000TLondon
I'm not a fan of Norton or McAfee. There are so many free anti-virus programs about, including Microsoft Beta which as far as I can tell is pretty much the same.
04 February 2006, 11:04 AM
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Originally Posted by 2000TLondon
I'm not a fan of Norton or McAfee. There are so many free anti-virus programs about, including Microsoft Beta which as far as I can tell is pretty much the same.
05 February 2006, 06:02 PM
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Originally Posted by 2000TLondon
I'm not a fan of Norton or McAfee. There are so many free anti-virus programs about, including Microsoft Beta which as far as I can tell is pretty much the same.
Microsoft Spyware beta does not find all Malware only some spyware it is only updated once a month so any new Malware will be sitting on your machine
Even Microsoft says on there web site
Install an antivirus program and update it on a regular basis.
Any Free AV is not updated regularly and New new Malware was going around last week AVG FOC was not updated to the following day
McAfee was already picking this up the with a year old Signiture File
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