About a month ago I had Norton Antivirus 2008 and I was visiting some websites and clicked on one that had the fake virus scanner that tried to attack my computer. Norton stopped it (and the Norton pop-up appeared in the lower, right-hand corner of my screen alerting me of this) and added it to my quarantined list.
Yesterday, I downloaded Norton Internet Security 2009 and just an hour ago I ended up on another website that tried to download a false AntiVirus program onto my computer. A long bar appeared beneath my address bar that said that a download was blocked (or something along those lines). Yet, when I tried to click out of the window, a popup appeared that said something along the lines of "if you click cancel now and close this window your computer will crash." I clicked cancel anyways (because it wouldn't let me close my Internet explorer if I didn't) and, once the website was gone, nothing happened and everything seemed okay.
Now, I wouldn't be complaining apart from the fact that my Norton history mentions nothing at all about it and I never saw any alert from Norton when I was on that site. So, because of this, I'm worried that the virus or trojan that tried to get on my computer did manage to get on and that Norton just isn't recognizing it. I've run both quick scan and full system scan and it comes up with nothing.
Any help or information? Is it possible that Norton won't recognize certain viruses or trojans? I would greatly appreciate it!
About a month ago I had Norton Antivirus 2008 and I was visiting some websites and clicked on one that had the fake virus scanner that tried to attack my computer. Norton stopped it (and the Norton pop-up appeared in the lower, right-hand corner of my screen alerting me of this) and added it to my quarantined list.
Yesterday, I downloaded Norton Internet Security 2009 and just an hour ago I ended up on another website that tried to download a false AntiVirus program onto my computer. A long bar appeared beneath my address bar that said that a download was blocked (or something along those lines). Yet, when I tried to click out of the window, a popup appeared that said something along the lines of "if you click cancel now and close this window your computer will crash." I clicked cancel anyways (because it wouldn't let me close my Internet explorer if I didn't) and, once the website was gone, nothing happened and everything seemed okay.
Now, I wouldn't be complaining apart from the fact that my Norton history mentions nothing at all about it and I never saw any alert from Norton when I was on that site. So, because of this, I'm worried that the virus or trojan that tried to get on my computer did manage to get on and that Norton just isn't recognizing it. I've run both quick scan and full system scan and it comes up with nothing.
Any help or information? Is it possible that Norton won't recognize certain viruses or trojans? I would greatly appreciate it!
LokiLokiLove what Version of the new NIS2009 have you have installed?
Is your NIS2009 configured to do a Full System scan or not?
Is there anything located in your NIS2009 Quarantine?
Yes it is possible that Norton or any other AV app for that matter won't recognize certain viruses or trojans, this due to the constant new variants that are out evey minute of the day. How ever NIS2009 is one of the best on the market that a person could have at this time. I will mention that there is not any one type of AV out there that is 100% perfect. So don't loose any sleep over it lol
Reply back with answers for the above questions, and if you can do a Full Scan in Safe Mode, let us know what the out come is.
What version? Well, all I know is that I just bought and downloaded the "New for 2009, 1 year protection" Norton Internet 2009 last night so I don't know if it comes with any special versions or whatnot. I'm just aware that what I have is not Norton 360 or just the standard Norton Antivirus. It's just Norton Internet 2009...
I just finished both a full system scan and a quick scan, both came up with nothing except tracing cookies (which were deleted).
There are things located in my NIS2009 quarantine but they are not from today (which is why I'm worried) or yesterday and everything thing listed there has been taken care of.
I am not on safemode (haven't tried it yet) and everything is working fine so far.
For your version number - go to Help | About and in the pop up box it should read Version: 16.xx.xx.xx . Example: 16.5.0.135.
As to the possible virus, seems from what you said that you were smart and did not click on the download trigger. If you wanted to 'calm your fears' you could always download MalwareBytes scanner (free and does not interfere with NIS2009 IF used as 'on demand' scanner) and see if it finds anything but I would think it would only find more cookies.