HELP! my norton is goin ccaaaarrrraaazzzyyyyy!! *pic*

[Tiger]

if i dont disable it this happens..



any ideas?? its trying to scan all these random emails that ive never heard of b4, im takin it that its some kind of virus?.. ive ranthis for years with no problems, this is just out of the blue

 

[Adam K]

norton is a pile of shite anyway, remove it and your computer will run 25% faster.

avg and zonealarm are a much better combo.

 

[Daz]

Yea, only the corporate versions (Symantec) are any good now..

Norton got carried away with bloatware.

 

[UncleGrumpy]

And while you're at it ditch that bag of poo that is IE and get firefox, save yourself loads of grief

 

[manicmonkey]

zonealarm is shite

 

[tommyboy]

I see you have uTorrent aswell....

McAfee 2006 full internet suite has been super...

Firefox is good aswell

 

[ollie]

nod 32.

 

[Rasclart]

Mac

 

[ollie]

crap







jokes...

 

[Tiger]

I see you have uTorrent aswell....

McAfee 2006 full internet suite has been super...

Firefox is good aswell

utorrent is the best torrent clien by a mile, i think i might try mcafee

 

[ollie]

mcafee aint that much better imo :s not imo anyway!

nod32 is by far the best in my experience, never had any trouble with it at all, updates definitions every few hours, and uses hardly any system resources

 

[manicmonkey]

i dont bother with a firewall or a virus scanner, and have set myself as dmz.

in over two years i havent had a problem, you just need to make sure you update windows as soon as security patches are made available, which is easy if you stick it on auto! i know microsoft dont fix problems immediately, but they do do it b4 the tools are made available for the average script kiddie to exploit them!

occasionly i use trend online virus scanner and rootkit revealer to check things over.

in short, if your careful about what your downloading, you'll be fine

 

[Adams_16v]

zonealarm is great if its configured correctly.

i use avast AV on my pc and laptop and its spot on!

 

[ollie]

i dont bother with a firewall or a virus scanner, and have set myself as dmz.

in over two years i havent had a problem, you just need to make sure you update windows as soon as security patches are made available, which is easy if you stick it on auto! i know microsoft dont fix problems immediately, but they do do it b4 the tools are made available for the average script kiddie to exploit them!

occasionly i use trend online virus scanner and rootkit revealer to check things over.

in short, if your careful about what your downloading, you'll be fine

i never used to, still dont bother with a firewall. Only installed a anti-virus as a iwanted a no cd for a few games, and some of the dodgy crack sites try give you stuff you dont ask for, so installed it so i didnt get anything dodgy. Then as nod 32 hardly used any ram/cpu thought i may aswell keep it :¬)

But yea, as long as you are careful what you download you will almost never have any trouble!

 

[James.]

Zone alarm here, coupled with ad-aware, spybot search and destroy, and CW shredder.

Havent had a problem in years

 

[Final Maxim]

avg, windows firewall n adaware

 

[Andy]

Kaspersky.

Excellent.

 

[Alan]

Sygate personal firewall and the windows firewall.....sorted!!

 

[Munson]

any ideas??

Add/remove programs would be my advice.

 

[Munson]

avg, windows firewall n adaware

Knowsit. Those are all anyone needs IMO. Maybe Avast as a free alternative to AVG, or NOD32 for the cream (not free)

If you have a router then you dont really need to be too worried about a firewall, but the Windows one is perfectly ok anyway.

I would only use a 3rd party software firewall if I wanted it for monitoring outgoing connections.

 

[MikeDX]

if i dont disable it this happens..



any ideas?? its trying to scan all these random emails that ive never heard of b4, im takin it that its some kind of virus?.. ive ranthis for years with no problems, this is just out of the blue

Looks like you've got some nice malware installed and somebody is using your machine to send out spam!

Let me guess.. Smiley central, some crap from IE.. been visiting some "adult" sites?

Get Ad-Aware SE and Spybot S&D

Stop using IE IMMEDIATELY, GET FIREFOX http://www.getfirefox.com and install the adblock and noscript extensions.

 

[ollie]

Add/remove programs would be my advice.

rofl, i was gonna say that :rasp::rasp:

 

[Timmay]

norton is a pile of sh*te anyway, remove it and your computer will run 25% faster.

avg and zonealarm are a much better combo.

I agree - we have norton at work and its always playing up

 

[Laura]

just delete it, took some one i no 15seconds to wirelessly hack my laptop with it on

 

[Tiger]

this is turnin out to be a nightmare, cant get mcafee to uninstall now, the progress bar hangs with about 2mm to go at the end, i cant get anything else to install till this is gone, f'n pile of s**t! my laptop ran for years with norton no problem whatsoever then this right out of the blue

im gonna try Kaspersky next if i can get it to install, id be quicker wipin the whole lot but ive got tons and tons of stuff i need to back up, just no time to do it!