Norton Anti-Virus...?

[eric B]

I heard recently that Norton Anti-Virus has spyware programming in it called GHOST, has anyone here heard about this at all?

[dzwitch]

I heard recently that Norton Anti-Virus has spyware programming in it called GHOST, has anyone here heard about this at all?


Where did you read it? I hope It wasn't in one of those shitty chain-mails sent by ignorants of the computing world. they'll also tell you that MSN Messenger is gonna be closed in a few days due to the decission of the MSN's owner, and also that there's a child with a extrange disease that needs you to resend that mail to a thousand people more.

Don't listen to them and let's talk about ballbusting with spyware!

Are there women willing to kick my balls in Scotland? If so I would like to visit that region!

[Julie18nz]

I heard recently that Norton Anti-Virus has spyware programming in it called GHOST, has anyone here heard about this at all?

Norton "Ghost" makes a "Ghost" image of ur Harddrive for backup and re-installarion purposes ONLY. NO spyware, nothing else :) I am sure this could have been answered very easily if u had just gone to thier website and read about it but, if you believed that crazy stupid rumor then you probably woudlnt have believed the truth :)

[abused berries]

anti virus software is basically spyware in the sense that:

1. both run in the background
2. both hogs system resources
3. both cannot be easily disabled

the key difference is that spyware is free and norton costs money.

all you need to keep your system clean is:

1. non internet explorer browser
2. daily-use free scanning program, such as adaware
3. hijackthis, a tool that you can operate in safe mode that allows you to delete malicious files/processes. hijackthis also has a support forum.

[eric B]

if you believed that crazy stupid rumor then you probably woudlnt have believed the truth :)

Why do you say so?

[en0barbus]

Many a similar rumour has turned out to be true!

[smartty]

i would never run any other virus scanner that bitdefender internt sec it doesent slow down the pc because it is a packet scanner at its heart.

[skweezme]

And then she kicked him hard in the balls. He doubled up. Fell to the ground.

Served him right for running the wrong virus scanner!

She just couldn't stand that.

:)

[smartty]

eirler on that day she had ervailed herself to nice new pair of strapless backless slip on steel reinforced korckiees with that new smell he could now inhail from his poition forthwidth.


'"Do you like my new stompers"? she giggled down to her silly internet porn junkie, i bought them

with the rebate you got when you purched that symantec product on my fukkin visa
sqishyy boy' LOOK at ME WHEN I TALK TO YOU.!!

[crushee]

That remembers me a hoax that had circulated a few years ago, claiming that a new VERY DANGEROUS virus was circulating via e-mails and outllook directories, that was named SULFNBK. The mail indicated how to take rid of this file.
A group of friends, among them elderly people non specifically skilled with computers propagated the e-mail among them selves and their acquaintances, and several of them went into their HD to locate the suspected file and erase it.

Of course, they had to re-install it shortly afterwards, the so-called virus being a perfectly normal system file !!!

Beware of rumours...