What if antivirus software kills your comp? And million others?

I just have came across this article on a site that covers many other interesting things - so if you are using the chinese version Norton update -beware. Many people are not affected here, but this raises many questions...

http://www.physorg.com/news99206124.html

Norton actually achieved something that many virus makers just dream about. I wonder how they will answer to the compensations requests.

Ivan

 

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I'm so glad I don't need Antivirus on my primary OS, run only on-demand AVG on my secondary one, and still manually approve any changes it makes.

 

Ouch! Hopefully stuff like this will be less likely to occur with Vista. Wonder how much money the corporate clients lost?

 

hah! norton sucks! good thing i stopped using it...i use free AV now so im good, saves money and keeps me protected!

 

http://www.windowssecrets.com/comp/061023/

And it looks like the third-party security vendors can wear the black hat also.

 

See, another reason why you shouldn't use norton.

 

Well I have a quite decent experience with viruses and AV programs. I cleaned hundreds of those vermin during past years (FYI only I have no viruses on my comp for years now, and I let Windows Defender running only.) Most of the vermin were on company comps WITH SOME AV INSTALLED!

The worst was Norton AV. Sad but true. I needed all my skills to uninstall Norton AV from one comp. I finally managed that, but not the way Norton intended. I wiped it clean - no trace of it ANYWHERE.

There is no AV like regedit, notepad, safemode and windows explorer. Know your enemy, learn how it works - that is my logic - not "protect" yourself against everything slowing your machine along the way, and at the end get a virus or make your machine dead.

I hope this will teach a lesson to those AV companies who make themselves obligatory and already present on many brand new computers whether you like it or not.

Ivan

 

you know, ive always been suspicious that its the big AV companies like Mcafee and Norton that put out some of these viruses just so people who are not very computer savvy and who just go out to the store and are all like "oh noes! viruses! get antivirus! pay pay pay!" and then they still end up getting infected, and then they have to get it removed, then they want MORE protection, so they pay for more of the company's products

/rant

so yeah just my 2 cents

 

lol - good theory. If I had an AV company I would search virusmakers, crackers and hackers only for the future employees. They obviously know how to make it and how to protect the system from it.

Ivan

 

im about to remove nortan in favour of AVG. so is nortan going to give me trouble when i try and remove all trace of it ?
this sounds like fun.

 

use this tool from symantec, it will remove all norton products from your computer...and i mean EVERYTHING, so yeah its good:

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039

have fun

 

cheers foosa

i will have great fun killing this mem hog

 

I personally always hated Norton somewhat. Maybe it's that bright yellow box. Somehow the free solutions such as AVG and avast! always looks and works better. No i do not need a memory hog on my computer and no, i'm not really willing to pay for some subscriptions which i won't use 90% of it (frankly speaking i've not encountered a virus)

 

Hey hoggie,

Well that was some years ago. Now I believe they have a tool that can remove it completely as foosa said. I still find it quite annoying. In my case first I did the uninstall (an unsuccessfull uninstall) and then cleaned the computer. I bet there are still some registry keys and some files left even after applying the uninstall tool. I hope I am wrong. But that is the best you can do.

Ivan

 

It maybe that this is what Kaspersky already does, russian way, you know.