I am running Norton Internet Security on my Vista Business machine. I just purchased and installed Norton Ghost 14.0, and after running LiveUpdate, I attempted by first backup to the NAS on my network. The Backup was interupted by NIS, which claimed to have detected three worms attempting to attack my NAS from my computer: Nebiwo, Deloader and Fizzer. NIS would not allowthe Ghost backup to proceed.
Of course, I assumed that my computer was suddenly infested with worms and attempted to remove them by following instructions on the Sympantec website for the removal of each virus. However, the removal tools and processes did not find any of the three viruses.
After Googling around, I came across a thread started by tschmidt on 11-06-2008 outlining the same issue (http://community.norton.com/norton/board/message?board.id=nis_feedback&thread.id=17579). His thread was unresolved, but it references another thread started by PurkissA on 07-11-2008 (http://community.norton.com/norton/board/message?message.uid=11204), which was apparently blamed on crash dumps. I searched my system for crash dumps (none were found), andto be dure I also ran Disk Cleanup and had it delete everything. However, the Ghost / NIS conflict continues to persist.
My latest attempt involves excluding the three viruses from the Intrusion Prevention options in NIS. This is not an acceptable option, as it opens up my computer to the risk of acquiring these viruses.
Has the Norton AntiVirus / Norton Ghost conflict been resolved, or is Symantec still persisting in pinning this issue to the phantom of old crash dumps? Please tell me there is an acceptable solution.