Norton saved my @ss

[mgordon99]

Wow!

This is the first time I have ever found a virus on my system, and Mr. Norton done saved my sorry you-know-what.

I was installing what I thought was ICQ 2000 beta, which I downloaded from a ftp site. Then the alarm goes off, it found this:

ICQ.Revenge.Trojan
Detected as:
ICQ.Revenge.Trojan

Area of Infection:
.EXE Files

Characteristics:
This file creates a copy of itself named SYSTEM32.EXE, places it in the WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory, and modifies the registry to launch it file upon startup.

So I nuked it, and the whole file it came in.

I used to think I would never get a virus, wrong. Thank you Mr. Norton.

[seti]

icq 2000a sucks anyway. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

I've been running norton av for about 2 years...so far it's been a complete waste of money, but I guess it only takes one time.

[CMonster]

Good for you and may the perps get their share of hardware failure!

[Dallasmcse]

To date, NAV has stopped 35 infected E-Mail attachments from entering the wan I support.
@ about 20$ per user, it would cost us more in rebulding a crashed pc per incident. One of these E-mails was addressed to 65 people at my site.
(ps Use the quarantine if unrepairable option)
Learn once, teach many

[ytay]

i get trojans sent to me all the time because of my low icq number, as wel as viruses and over all between norton, TDS and the cleaner, most get caught

[Biff]

Nortons AV has come through for me too, but these days I dont install the utilities, it slows down the whole system!

[MadMatt]

NAV is good, but McAffee is better.

At work we check the Network Associates and Symantec sites for updates every day - For example, NA might show a new virus on monday morning, but Symantec won't have the same one up till tuesday afternoon! Plus, the McAffee SW isn't bloated like NAV.