Norton Internet Security / Norton AntiVirus

[passenger]

I have a curiosity to satisfy. How do you take  viruses, trojans or rootkits?

Take them browsing the Internet? email attachments? Installing programmes not originals?

Thanks.

[dbrisendine Norton Fighter]

In this multiple choice question the answer is

D) All of the above.

[Floating_Red]

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passenger wrote:

I have a curiosity to satisfy. How do you take  viruses, trojans or rootkits?

Take them browsing the Internet? email attachments? Installing programmes not originals?

Thanks.

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Eh?  What do you mean?  Please expand.

[passenger]

Simply I can not understand how some people taking virus continuously. If they click on any executable or just surfing the internet.

[Stu]

a lot of people download a lot of cracked software. most of these are full with malware

[yogesh_mohan]

Hi passenger,

Here is a similar thread which may give some answers for your query:

http://community.norton.com/norton/board/message?board.id=nis_feedback&message.id=24053

Let me know if this is helpful.

Yogesh

[Floating_Red]

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passenger wrote:
Simply I can not understand how some people taking virus continuously. If they click on any executable or just surfing the internet.

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I think I kind-of understand what you mean; do you mean what Stu wrote?

[Floating_Red]

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yogesh_mohan wrote:

Hi passenger,

Here is a similar thread which may give some answers for your query:

http://community.norton.com/norton/board/message?board.id=nis_feedback&message.id=24053

Let me know if this is helpful.

Yogesh

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Hi, Yogesh, 

Intresting Thread, which I missed until you pointed out - much in the same way as Security Software works.  And by that I mean your computer being Infected, which a User does not know about, until the Anti-Virus Product gets the Definitions, or, it could have the Virus Definitions which could miss a File out which an On-Demand Scanner gets.  Am sure you get what am on about. 

And people who say they have used no Anti-Virus Product and not ot Infected is impossible, just as symantec have said themselves; the Threats(s) have got on your computer and used Anti-Detection and re-naming themselves as a Windows' program.  People need to understand that it is a dangerous place - the Internet - if you've got no Security Software installed.  If you've got something like Norton Internet Security 2009 installed on a Windows X.P./Vista P.C. then you should be alright as it has Auto-Protect (Anti-Virus), Intrusion Prevention, Firewall and Phishing Protection [Detects if a Web Site is Safe or Un-Safe].  And N.I.S. 2009 has "Background Tasks" which keeps the Security Product up-to-date, so you don't have to worry about keeping it up-to-date.

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Message Edited by Floating_Red on 07-02-2009 10:16 PM

Message Edited by Floating_Red on 07-02-2009 10:17 PM

[Voyager10]

@Passenger

Malwaredomainlist.com (recent Updates) is a good adress to find daily new infected WebSites.

[huwyngr Norton Fighter]

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passenger wrote:
Simply I can not understand how some people taking virus continuously. If they click on any executable or just surfing the internet.

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dbris has given you the correct answer! Or as someone has said:

"The greatest danger to your computer lies between the left ear and the right ear" 

In other words people sometimes do stupidly dangerous things either through ignorance or not thinking first.

But also some of the messages you see here are from people with dedicated special computers who deliberately go out and look for infections either to report them or to see if their security software protects them or not -- something not to try at home!