Norton AntiVirus 2003 and XP

[Mike Purdue]

Hi, im posting this message on behalf of a friedn fo mine who im trying to
help out. He recently upgraded to XP home edition from ME, however when
he finished the upgrade he discovered roughly after about a period of 24
hours that XP had disabled his virus software (Norton AntiVirus 2003) and
upon reactivation of this software he discovered his computer now had 62
viruses. Oh and the version of XP installed was a genuine copy. Anyways i
find it really hard to believe that he got 62 viruses in one day, i think he only
has one left now the spybot virus (he uses programmes like kazaa which is
prob how he got that one) but can anyone explain how somethign like this
could happen??

I did read on the microsoft support site that some viruses would maybe stay
hidden until an upgrade had been performed, could upgrading to XP really
have revealed 62 hidden viruses?

Any help on the problem would be appreciated

Mike

 

[Rocket J. Squirrel]

62 viruses - is that all?

"HOW TO: Prepare to Upgrade Windows 98 or Windows Millennium Edition to
Windows XP"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316639&Product=winxp

"Remove (or turn off) any antivirus software that is running before you
start the upgrade process. In some cases, Windows XP Setup turns off
antivirus software during the upgrade process, but in other cases, you must
turn off the software first. Most antivirus software must be updated to work
properly with Windows XP."

Rocky

Hi, im posting this message on behalf of a friedn fo mine who im trying to
help out. He recently upgraded to XP home edition from ME, however when
he finished the upgrade he discovered roughly after about a period of 24
hours that XP had disabled his virus software (Norton AntiVirus 2003) and
upon reactivation of this software he discovered his computer now had 62
viruses. Oh and the version of XP installed was a genuine copy. Anyways i
find it really hard to believe that he got 62 viruses in one day, i think he
only
has one left now the spybot virus (he uses programmes like kazaa which is
prob how he got that one) but can anyone explain how somethign like this
could happen??

I did read on the microsoft support site that some viruses would maybe stay
hidden until an upgrade had been performed, could upgrading to XP really
have revealed 62 hidden viruses?

Any help on the problem would be appreciated

Mike