Getting rid of Norton (To Twayne) LightningSand.cfd corruption
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From: JeanPaulo on 19 Feb 2010 00:05 On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:40:48 -0500, "Twayne" <nobody(a)spamcop.net> wrote: > >Avira seems to be a decent tool, but use caution: it sometimes mis-ID's >"rogue" files and offers them up for deleteion. In my case it was a >setup.exe file. > >And realize that the Norton removal tool removes ALL NOrton programs on the >computer, not just one of them. So if you use Ghost, etc, you'll have to >reinstall it/them. > > >-- I used to be a fan of Norton, but recently I only used 360. I agree that Avira seems to have more false positives that Norton. But it is so much faster ! My setting is to always ask before removing. It is a pity that none of the current AV tries to remove the virus, not the file containing it.
From: David H. Lipman on 19 Feb 2010 06:20
From: "JeanPaulo" <jean.paulo.bidon(a)free.fr> | On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:40:48 -0500, "Twayne" <nobody(a)spamcop.net> | wrote: >>Avira seems to be a decent tool, but use caution: it sometimes mis-ID's >>"rogue" files and offers them up for deleteion. In my case it was a >>setup.exe file. >>And realize that the Norton removal tool removes ALL NOrton programs on the >>computer, not just one of them. So if you use Ghost, etc, you'll have to >>reinstall it/them. >>-- | I used to be a fan of Norton, but recently I only used 360. | I agree that Avira seems to have more false positives that Norton. But | it is so much faster ! | My setting is to always ask before removing. | It is a pity that none of the current AV tries to remove the virus, | not the file containing it. Because very FEW are file infecting viruses ! -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |