I have came to realize that I have the pernicious ams1.ib.adnxs malware in my IE 11 browser with my Dell Laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 service pack 1. I have NIS 2014 which dosen't even notice it.
I have also tried Malwarebytes and Adware Cleaner as well as Norton Erazer to No Avail. So I am now starting perhaps late in the day to wonder why Symantec has failed to address a now more well known threat like this in it's security suites so as to prevent it infecting customers browsers in the first place.?
It's all very well saying to be wary of certain kinds of unofficial software and enable detection of PUPS in antivirus (though you would think that should be part of default settings) but this sort of thing can happen when you stray into an innocuous looking site accidentallly and things can then try and install even without your authorizing it. And even when you think you've stopped it the damage has been done.
So why is something out there online like this that is known to be so pernicious for so long NOT getting flagged up as a REAL security issue for customers to be more preemptively protected against ?They're seems to be a growing gap between what Norton products like NIS notionally protect against and what according to reviewers of security suites it misses such as ams1.ib.adnxs.
It's not good enough. How are you not creating a false sense of security if you miss something known like this and don't address it ?And it leaves one wondering as to whether Norton Products are actually more like chocolate fireguards.
Getting in software review assessment on better top of Spyware, Adware and Malware should be the Symantec TOP priority so that customers do not have to recourse so much to other software to try and deal with that.
In the meantime what are those of us who have ams1.ib.adnxs relentlessly stuck in our machines supposed to do short of factory reinstalling? There was a discussion of this issue here http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-360/ib-adnxs-com-popup/td-p/816588 that ended acrimoniously and I for one would like it readdressed calmly and rationally with a solution that isn't too onerous to follow and implement that WORKS if reinstalling isn't the only real option.
It is by now well understood that " no single security product can protect you 100% of the time from 100% of the threats that are being released daily" short of the web itself being ever made threatproof which is probably utopian.
Yet this particular infection has now been around for long enough to get Symantec's attention ( The link about previous discussion of it in Norton Community in my previous message goes back to 2012 assuming Ams1.ib.adnxs.com hasn't been around before then) for future prevention.
So if it is said that"Ams1.ib.adnxs.com is a dangerous program that brings with itself the Trojans and rootkits to destroy the PC as well as compromise privacy users steal data from users on the system. and "therefore, it is very important for users to Uninstall Ams1.ib.adnxs.com redirect virus as soon as possible in the computer system" how can that be considered an infection which does not damage software and a low priority item for Norton?
If this can compromise security and PC performance badly enough how is it not destructive to Windows software and defeat the point of what Norton Products are for if it dosen't notice it or can't remove it even if it did?
Short of having total PC omniscience I for one resent spending too much time looking for "solutions" of dubious efficacy from sites with their instructions for manual removal that seem useless or their proposed software downloads which don't work as well as being questionable what they might do to the PC itself regardless even if Norton gives them the OK for installing.(Just leave more registry clutter when uninstalled?)
Think I and others with this issue are entitled to feel let down.
I love the "often heard comment" that this software doesn't damage software, but users are sent to specialized forums to get their "hijacked" computers cleaned. Users are often told not to do anything yourself or you'll just make the problem worse. If your PC isn't usuable then I'd say something is damaged. This PUP problem has been brought up many times by many different users including myself. I don't understand why it would be so difficult for Norton to write code that would block these, obviously, harmful forms of software.
The next most common explanation is "They don't want to bog down your computer with excessive software running in the background." I can understand that if you have a computer that struggles to keep up with all the software it needs to run you wouldn't want to add and extra load, but if you have a newer computer with faster processors you probably wouldn't notice. In any case, I've said before, Semantic could make this an add-on. Each user could decide whether they wanted to enable this added protection. It would be fine with me if this was made an entirely separate program that would need to be purchased, but would work in conjunction with Norton security products.
Yes, I know about the suggestion site. Something of this nature has been suggested many times.
I have came to realize that I have the pernicious ams1.ib.adnxs malware in my IE 11 browser with my Dell Laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 service pack 1. I have NIS 2014 which dosen't even notice it.
I have also tried Malwarebytes and Adware Cleaner as well as Norton Erazer to No Avail. So I am now starting perhaps late in the day to wonder why Symantec has failed to address a now more well known threat like this in it's security suites so as to prevent it infecting customers browsers in the first place.?
It's all very well saying to be wary of certain kinds of unofficial software and enable detection of PUPS in antivirus (though you would think that should be part of default settings) but this sort of thing can happen when you stray into an innocuous looking site accidentallly and things can then try and install even without your authorizing it. And even when you think you've stopped it the damage has been done.
So why is something out there online like this that is known to be so pernicious for so long NOT getting flagged up as a REAL security issue for customers to be more preemptively protected against ?They're seems to be a growing gap between what Norton products like NIS notionally protect against and what according to reviewers of security suites it misses such as ams1.ib.adnxs.
It's not good enough. How are you not creating a false sense of security if you miss something known like this and don't address it ?And it leaves one wondering as to whether Norton Products are actually more like chocolate fireguards.
Getting in software review assessment on better top of Spyware, Adware and Malware should be the Symantec TOP priority so that customers do not have to recourse so much to other software to try and deal with that.
In the meantime what are those of us who have ams1.ib.adnxs relentlessly stuck in our machines supposed to do short of factory reinstalling? There was a discussion of this issue here http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-360/ib-adnxs-com-popup/td-p/816588 that ended acrimoniously and I for one would like it readdressed calmly and rationally with a solution that isn't too onerous to follow and implement that WORKS if reinstalling isn't the only real option.