Norton 360

[Cliffordj]

I’m in complete and total shock that N360 allows the virus/trojan/malware, or whatever you want to call it, "Antivirus XP 2010" to load itself right onto to a "N360 protected" machine and completely take it over, including the browser, launching apps, etc. I just can’t believe it. N360 not only fails to prevent it, it fails to identify it and remove it when scanned.

If N360 can’t stop something this insidious and prevalent, it’s completely useless as a security tool.

You can learn more about this problem and it’s solution here:

http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-antivirus-xp-2010.html

I spent 3 or 4 hours recovering a machine I thought was being "protected: by n360 last night from this nasty malware.

[Quads]

You Just have to run the registry fix, file that I have posted previously for this Rogue on this forum and the other family members that adds up to about 12 rogue names.

Quads

[Cliffordj]

 N360 should identify and prevent this virus/malware from infecting a machine to begin with. The fact it doesn't is shockimg  to me abd very bad for Norton/Symantec's reputation. I can't ebelieve machines I thoght were protected from just these kinds of threats are wide open to them. I'm nearly speechless.

[Quads]

Not really, Other Security software are struggling with it, from Kaspersky, MBAM, AVG, blah blah

It is an easy rogue to remove by just running the registry fix file to break.

Next week another one of the same name will come out, that looks exactly the same but has been changed to evade detection.

It only shocks people that don't understand Malware and how they are always changing. So safe browsing is always required.

Quads

[Cliffordj]

Ya, that's it I just don't understand malware I guess even though I've been in the industry for 25 years, I ghuess the viryus definitions that download daily are for last years threats, not todays right?

I hope you don't actaully work for Symantec champ.

[delphinium Norton Fighter]

Cliffordj:

Unless our names are in red, none of us work for Symantec.  Quads is actually a malware specialist. Since malware writers get paid better money than we do, their material is updated, modified, and changed, sometimes on a weekly basis.  The TDL3 rootkit is up to something like version 3.6.  That's right, this one has versions like security software.

Malware is always written first, then chased down by all of the antivirus developers to come up with a fix.  They all try very hard, but it is always playing catch up.

Nothing in life is perfect 100% of the time.  We can all get infected at any time.

[SendOfJive Norton Fighter]

Quads is right.  Threads about Antivirus XP 2010 are eerily alike, no matter what forum you visit:

Eset

AVG

McAfee

[reactivate]

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Cliffordj wrote:

I hope you don't actaully work for Symantec champ.

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Funny you should say that, I have been thinking the same thing myself for some time.

[Quads]

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reactivate wrote:

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Cliffordj wrote:

I hope you don't actaully work for Symantec champ.

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Funny you should say that, I have been thinking the same thing myself for some time.

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No I am not employed by Symantec or any other Security Software Company, 

Just realised a few years ago most of the PC's that turned up needing fixing was 

a) Malware infection, they the user can't get AV's etc to run or remove the infection.

b) A really stuffed HD, that needs data recovered, which can take hours........

Where if it's other areas like the PC just needs a second HD installed, new Video card or RAM etc., that's easy 

So I want away and studied Malware how they tend to act, work on the OS, block AV's etc., and work a way how to remove the infection(s) without in the most part damaging the OS any further or loosing the PC owners personal data

It's like a game of Chess, and as long as someone has not in trying, removed something that is actually needed or made things worse or confusing, it's just a matter of working out what it is, what it has done to the PC and OS, ways to remove it (sometimes in steps) and then sometimes repairing the OS like say No Safe Mode (Safeboot).

Quads

[floplot Norton Fighter]

Quads has the remarkable ability to fix people's computers without seeing them and without sitting in front of it, through a Forum like this and under difficult conditions sometimes.