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Originally Posted by mick pinner
Norton IS 2008.
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Mick, for quite a few years I have fixed peoples PC's where that have nortons on it for virus and firewall security - nearly every single time they have suffered from a virus disabling the system - allowing the updates to be redirected or in some cases go through the motions but nothing happen with respect to a real update. usual cause is some ones teenager changed the settings to allow access to download a music file or video file. one kid even downloaded viruses delibertely to see how many they could get and capture. for the record they had 28 seperate viruses on the one system at the one time, with 87 in the vault. One family even upgraded to the new nortons (through a dummy website the virus update was directed to). it cost them 129 dollars plus they got one mega bill from telstra bigpond at the end of the month for excess useage - it cost them 1490 dollars for a $29.95/month plan. it seems their system was using the broadband for a downloading machine for the web for their (the virus owners) other activities.
of all the virus engines out there - nortons seems to me to be the worst and most targeted by viruses directly. the better virus programmes I personally have found to be worth the money is AVG and FPROT. For some reason they are not targeted like nortons
