This was a full product called Giant Anti-spyware that MS acquired. "Beta" is their term.
75% of my private client calls involve removing malware, and the MS product is a champ at this task.
MS antispyware gives you a summary screen that breaks down each item it found, assigns it a perceived threat rating, and gives you the choice to "Remove, Ignore, Quarantine."
So, anyone watching with any degree of care should notice that Norton was one of the choices and simply select the "ignore" option.
Personally, I haven't seen this happen myself.
I agree with many other posters that Norton isn't that great of a product. I've noticed their firewall suddenly,without provocation, start blocking all websites.
I've also noticed their antivirus turn itself off for no reason, never to be turned on again. Reinstalling is often interesting, since even the least little trace of the product prevents an install/reinstall, but it almost never uninstalls cleanly.
This was a full product called Giant Anti-spyware that MS acquired. "Beta" is their term.
Its pretty amazing how MS is so good at taking good software and umm.. making it 'beta', a security issue and mediocre (at best). hehe.. (ref: NT development).. stay tune for their antivirus software to do something similar (RAV AV was pretty good in its day before MS acquired it..)
I actually got called out to a client this afternoon specifically to deal with this issue. It actually is more difficult than you think to recognize.
From what I saw on his PC it actually wasn't picking up any of the files. It was registry keys. Unless you are specifically aware of the fact that Symantec Corporate Edition uses the Intel LanDesk registry keys you wouldn't have recognized it. Additionally once you ran it once, it automatically removed a few of the registry keys without even prompting. M
Ad-Aware and Spybot work better than MS Anti-Spyware at removing "real" threats. In fact this is the first thing I've heard of it doing that is worthwhile. I used it for four months and had no reason to waste hard drive space on it anymore. I spend 80% of my time removing crapware from customers boxes and this is just one more. As for the Norton problems you mentioned, they probably have something to do with the 6+ virus written last year that specificly target Norton. It's a shame when a product that was th
I've also noticed their antivirus turn itself off for no reason, never to be turned on again
Yeah, that's a known problem. A friend reported those symptoms to me, and I went over his PC with a fine tooth comb looking for antivirus-terminating malware. When I discovered it was a 'feature' I was not happy.
Maybe you can't buy happiness, but these days you can certainly charge it.
But it's not really a beta... (Score:5, Informative)
"Beta" is their term.
75% of my private client calls involve removing malware, and the MS product
is a champ at this task.
MS antispyware gives you a summary screen that breaks down each item it found,
assigns it a perceived threat rating, and gives you the choice to "Remove, Ignore, Quarantine."
So, anyone watching with any degree of care should notice that Norton was one of the choices
and simply select the "ignore" option.
Personally, I haven't seen this happen myself.
I agree with many other posters that Norton isn't that great of a product.
I've noticed their firewall suddenly,without provocation, start blocking
all websites.
I've also noticed their antivirus turn itself off for no reason, never
to be turned on again. Reinstalling is often interesting, since even the
least little trace of the product prevents an install/reinstall, but it
almost never uninstalls cleanly.
Re:But it's not really a beta... (Score:2)
"Beta" is their term.
Its pretty amazing how MS is so good at taking good software and umm.. making it 'beta', a security issue and mediocre (at best). hehe.. (ref: NT development)
Re:But it's not really a beta... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:But it's not really a beta... (Score:2)
I used it for four months and had no reason to waste hard drive space on it anymore. I spend 80% of my time removing crapware from customers boxes and this is just one more. As for the Norton problems you mentioned, they probably have something to do with the 6+ virus written last year that specificly target Norton. It's a shame when a product that was th
Re:But it's not really a beta... (Score:2)
Yeah, that's a known problem. A friend reported those symptoms to me, and I went over his PC with a fine tooth comb looking for antivirus-terminating malware. When I discovered it was a 'feature' I was not happy.