seirachan Posted July 19, 2011 Report Share Posted July 19, 2011 I honestly can't believe she paid like $50 or more that that shitty program. Yesterday I downloaded Malwarebytes onto her laptop(which is FREE) and found 24 infections one of which including the annoying msn thing sending me adds. Norton is crap, just utter crap. Malwarebytes all the way!She only has all that crap on there because my brother keeps going on there downloading everything. I learned not to let him near computers when he totally infected my computer and I lost EVERYTHING. Still not happy about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jen2sons Posted July 19, 2011 Report Share Posted July 19, 2011 The only problem with Malwarebytes is sometimes it will be too good at it's job and remove things that trash the windows system files. My sons pc had a worm and it would work but slow. we ran Malwarebytes and it found and removed the worm but unfortunately the pc never was able to reload windows again and we had to do a full recovery.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seirachan Posted July 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2011 The only problem with Malwarebytes is sometimes it will be too good at it's job and remove things that trash the windows system files. My sons pc had a worm and it would work but slow. we ran Malwarebytes and it found and removed the worm but unfortunately the pc never was able to reload windows again and we had to do a full recovery..Must have been because the worm infected something important. I just keep up on regular scanning. It's my mom's own fault if she loses something important then I'll see about getting one of my friends to reformat it or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jen2sons Posted July 20, 2011 Report Share Posted July 20, 2011 true.. sometimes a good reinstall makes the best choice.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony77 Posted July 20, 2011 Report Share Posted July 20, 2011 Since 2009, Norton is improved. I use Norton and i have any troubles.If you have some troubles with your pc and you cannot open windows.I should you use a live-cd with linux.You boot from the cd and you can access to all your files of windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koby Posted July 20, 2011 Report Share Posted July 20, 2011 Since 2009, Norton is improved. I use Norton and i have any troubles.If you have some troubles with your pc and you cannot open windows.I should you use a live-cd with linux.You boot from the cd and you can access to all your files of windows.Actually it's the other way around. Since about 2005, Norton has only continued to go down hill. It's to a point now that running it seems to do more harm than good. As it's a huge resource hog but fails to stop the vast majority of viruses out there.The best options at the current time are actually free methods.I'd suggest a mix of Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes.Be sure to check though when they find something as to what files they will be removing. Malwarebytes is so good at it's job it sometimes ends up removing key files of your OS that have been infected and you'll need to know what to restore or replace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingy444 Posted September 22, 2012 Report Share Posted September 22, 2012 I just have to LOL at the title :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroPenguins Posted September 22, 2012 Report Share Posted September 22, 2012 Meh, all I just use is Eset. Works and really light weighted so I don't really care anymore about anti-virus. I haven't been infected in such a long time, since all I do these days on a computer is either go on forums, watch youtube videos or read news articles. Really hard to get infected if I'm not downloading or installing something bad. The point is, prevention is better than cure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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