Norman antivirus

Matt_Turner

Well, I dont even PAY for my Anti Virus and SpyWare O_O

I Downloaded ''AVG FREE'' off the AVG webiste, it totally legal, and gives you very good protection anyway, It stopped a Trojan the other day, i would certainly recommend that,

GunJack

Matt_Turner wrote: »

Well, I dont even PAY for my Anti Virus and SpyWare O_O

I Downloaded ''AVG FREE'' off the AVG webiste, it totally legal, and gives you very good protection anyway, It stopped a Trojan the other day, i would certainly recommend that,

you were probably lucky, then...do yourself a favour, ditch AVG and get avast or avira instead

aliEnRIK

Browntoa wrote: »

well I'll be...never heard of Norman..assumed it was a mistype !!

apologies

me too

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

thomas01155

Thats a awful lot of false positives what antivirus do you use now?

GunJack

thomas01155 wrote: »

Thats a awful lot of false positives what antivirus do you use now?

Didn't you know ?? the great Torres doesn't use any at all (as he takes great delight in telling everyone)

aliEnRIK

TorrestheGreat wrote: »

AVG told me that about 50% of the software on my computer were trojans- none, in fact, were.

Ive heard you sprout some BS on here Torres, but THAT takes the biscuit :rotfl:

aliEnRIK

TorrestheGreat wrote: »

It told me that:
PPStream
PPMate
PPLive
UUSee
SinaTV
SopCast
TVAnts
TVKoo
TVU
contained trojans. They dont.

And thats 50% of the software on your computer? I also notice theyre all probably connected in some way?

gjchester

TorrestheGreat wrote: »

I use online scanners now, plus a bit of common sense when downloading/surfing.
The best (i.e. least memory-hungry) AV I ever used was NOD32 but even that got a bit too much for my crappy computers.
I havent had any viruses/trojans for about 5 years now, on 3 unprotected machines.

I guess you've been luck and protected by the routers NAT and firewall.

Hope you have good backups as some of the latest malware you can get just by visiting a poisened website.

See http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2383 You may not like the content but thats an "official" web site that was compromised, not something you'd expect a fan site yes, not an official one.

Col5ter

aliEnRIK wrote: »

And thats 50% of the software on your computer? I also notice theyre all probably connected in some way?

I'd agree and if they work like iPlayer, they run in the background and share any content you have downloaded with other users (iPlayer does this whether you have iPlayer running or not via a background service called KService), this could be classified as a trojan.