Norton 360

[SimonRoberts]

MY main development machine was attacked the other day when I was using it with norton 360, there is nothing unusal about my configuration as I develop XOOPS on it for the XOOPS foundation (www.xoops.org), stuxnet is a hardware virus that can be deployed on anything with a little bit of flash memory and a processor and is oftern user in counteraction with miltary for nuclear reactors and so on. It is an open source piece of weaponary as a virus.

I now no long have a PC to develop software on as Norton 360 failed to deliever any protection for this common virus being deployed using government backdoors on my windows 7 machine. Can norton buy me a new machine as I am one of the founding members of IPv6 from contribution on comp.protocol in 2005 and I find that the product I bought was completely useless in protecting or providing any means for protection against something it should a 'virus' that would have had to have been downloaded into the environment first.

All our machines here run Norton 360 6.0 but for some reason my Windows 7 machine no longer works and the screen just blinks as it has had a virus installed into the graphics card. I expect this may come as a shock but i believe norton 360 doesn't provide protection at all from a common open source virus due to aggreements with the US Miltary.

You owe me a new machine Norton. I will take a dell, shipped to my address, thanks for being a complete waste of money and time.

[dickevans Super RootKit Eradicator]

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SimonRoberts wrote:

MY main development machine was attacked the other day when I was using it with norton 360, there is nothing unusual about my configuration as I develop XOOPS on it for the XOOPS foundation (www.xoops.org), stuxnet is a hardware virus that can be deployed on anything with a little bit of flash memory and a processor and is often user in counteraction with military for nuclear reactors and so on. It is an open source piece of weaponry as a virus.

I now no long have a PC to develop software on as Norton 360 failed to deliver any protection for this common virus being deployed using government backdoors on my windows 7 machine. Can norton buy me a new machine as I am one of the founding members of IPv6 from contribution on comp.protocol in 2005 and I find that the product I bought was completely useless in protecting or providing any means for protection against something it should a 'virus' that would have had to have been downloaded into the environment first.

All our machines here run Norton 360 6.0 but for some reason my Windows 7 machine no longer works and the screen just blinks as it has had a virus installed into the graphics card. I expect this may come as a shock but i believe norton 360 doesn't provide protection at all from a common open source virus due to agreements with the US Military.

You owe me a new machine Norton. I will take a dell, shipped to my address, thanks for being a complete waste of money and time.

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Welcome,

Sorry you are having a problem. I have not found any type of protection which will always protect my machine from every threat, known or new, which can be found, released or developed. I understand that it is possible to do a lot of damage to the software on a system but I'm not familiar with software that destroys hardware. That said and having reviewed the EULA that comes with 360 I don't see that you have a strong enough case to warrant a new computer purchased by anybody but you.

Your accomplishments have little or no bearing on you argument that Norton owes you a computer. If your purchase of 360 has been within the guarantee period I'm sure that it will be honored and your money refunded.

Given that you are convinced that there is a conspiracy then it is even less likely that your demand will be met with success.
What methods have you used to try and determine if you do in fact have a software problem as opposed to a hardware [video card] failure?

We'll be here when you need us

[SendOfJive Norton Fighter]

Hi SimonRoberts,

Stuxnet is probably the most sophisticated malware ever developed.  It would surreptitiously mess up your uranium enrichment centrifuges, but it would never call attention to itself by doing anything like causing your monitor to blink.  It is also detected by Norton as W32.Stuxnet - so your issue is probably not Stuxnet.  You may want to begin your troubleshooting of the issue by focusing first on the most likely possible causes, such as hardware or a driver problem.

[DaveH]

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SendOfJive wrote:

Stuxnet is probably the most sophisticated malware ever developed. 

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Make that the most sophisticated malware discovered so far.  ;)

[dickevans Super RootKit Eradicator]

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DaveH wrote:

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SendOfJive wrote:

Stuxnet is probably the most sophisticated malware ever developed. 

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Make that the most sophisticated malware discovered so far.  ;)

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Amen

[DistEd2 Super Bot Obliterator Mobile Master (Norton Mobile Users Discussion Forum)]

SendOfJive makes an extremely important point. While stuxnet can propagate across the machines of "mere mortals," it was explicitly designed to be otherwise inert until it encountered a very specific system configuration associated with its target, to avoid collateral damage. I can assure you with a great deal of authority that it is not what's causing your problems, even if you have positively detected it on your machine.

There are a number of folks on these forums--as well as a few other, more specislized forums we could refer you to--that could likely help you put your system back in order (unless it is a card failure or other hardware problem).

Good luck!