Anti-Virus Question

Can someone tell me if Norton Anti-Virus is reliable, as I have had to clear
324 viruses from my drive.


Regards

Gordon

"Gordon McMillan" <gordon@biggart28.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Can someone tell me if Norton Anti-Virus is reliable, as I have had to
clear
> 324 viruses from my drive.

If you were using Norton and got that many, then I guess you have your
answer......if not, there are many others that are way better than Norton.
EZ Trust, NOD, etc.

Heather
>
>
> Regards
>
> Gordon
>
>

"Heather" <casey@nospam.ca.invalid> wrote in message
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> "Gordon McMillan" <gordon@biggart28.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:cmohj5$p41$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
>> Can someone tell me if Norton Anti-Virus is reliable, as I have had to
> clear
>> 324 viruses from my drive.
>
> If you were using Norton and got that many, then I guess you have your
> answer......if not, there are many others that are way better than Norton.
> EZ Trust, NOD, etc.
>
> Heather
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Gordon
>>
For all it's faults, I can't see Norton missing that many viruses. Are your
definition files up to date?

I'm not a Symantec fan, but I find it hard to believe one of the best
selling AV products in the world missed that many.

Clive

Clive wrote:

>
> For all it's faults, I can't see Norton missing that many viruses. Are your
> definition files up to date?
>
> I'm not a Symantec fan, but I find it hard to believe one of the best
> selling AV products in the world missed that many.
>
> Clive
>
>

Maybe he doesn't mean 384 instances of different viruses. Assuming we
are talking about replication here, it could be 384 instances of the
same one.

Gordon McMillan wrote:

> Can someone tell me if Norton Anti-Virus is reliable, as I have had
> to clear 324 viruses from my drive.

Do you mean:
(a) you have 324 files infected with 1 virus
(b) you have 324 different viruses on your computer

If (b), you need to change your computing habits!
http://www.claymania.com/safe-hex.html

Then, read about all this free stuff:
http://home.rochester.rr.com/bshagnasty/tips.html

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-bts
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1 - If NAV was not reliable then Peter Norton would have been out of
business years ago.
2 - I would suspect your AV library updates are not upto date. Please update
and rescan and schedule your updates to occur at least once an hour


"Gordon McMillan" <gordon@biggart28.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Can someone tell me if Norton Anti-Virus is reliable, as I have had to
> clear 324 viruses from my drive.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Gordon
>

Hi,
Gordon, were you updating your definitions? I just had Norton 2003
installed on my PC (the tech guy I hired to take Bagle virus off my computer
put it on) I'm having trouble trying to update the def. I shut Zone Alarm
off, and it seemed to be updated, so it said yesterday. When I turned on my
PC this morning I get a pop-up saying that my def. were out of date.....I
don't understand this darn NAV and I hate how it's slowed down my
PC.....Didn't mean to rabble on, but I wish I had AVG back on....Good
Luck....Nel

>
> "Gordon McMillan" <gordon@biggart28.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:cmohj5$p41$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
> > Can someone tell me if Norton Anti-Virus is reliable, as I have had to
> clear
> > 324 viruses from my drive.
>
> If you were using Norton and got that many, then I guess you have your
> answer......if not, there are many others that are way better than Norton.
> EZ Trust, NOD, etc.
>
> Heather
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Gordon
> >
> >
>
>

"optikl" <optikl@invalid.net> wrote in message
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> Clive wrote:
>
>>
>> For all it's faults, I can't see Norton missing that many viruses. Are
>> your definition files up to date?
>>
>> I'm not a Symantec fan, but I find it hard to believe one of the best
>> selling AV products in the world missed that many.
>>
>> Clive
>
> Maybe he doesn't mean 384 instances of different viruses. Assuming we are
> talking about replication here, it could be 384 instances of the same one.

Folks

Yes there where replications, not all though. I am now virus free, but I am
still worried.


Regards


Gordon