troubles with Norton Antivirus

[PokerGoblin]

I have the NAV software that came free w/ my PC when I bought it 18 months ago. The trial software expired after 3 months or something, I never renewed it. The software still runs.

I downloaded some porn the other day. Now every day after I wake my machine out of sleep mode I get this NAV pop up about such and such a hi threat virus was automatically erased. So I click ok and it instantly reappears with the same message, but different file name. I click again.

I clicked OK as fast as I could for a long as I could. If my g/f know I could move my finger that fast for that long she'd never leave alone. I seriously clicked OK for about 5 minutes, at a rate of about 600 clicks per minute.

Finally I tried to close down NAV through the Task Manager. No dice. I ended up rebooting the PC and it restarted and was fine. But, once a day I end up having to reboot the machine to alleviate this.

What can I do?

[CrazyN8]

1. stop looking at porn.

2. using internet explorer go to http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ and run the scan. It should catch and delete any viruses.

3. get AVG or some other free anti-virus software and stop bothering with this pay crap.

4. get zone alarm (free), ad-aware (free), and spybot (free)

5. delete/remove NAV.

hope that helps

[Terry]

Excellent advice ... except for #1 /images/graemlins/wink.gif

Good luck getting rid of Norton. It hides so much crap in so many places that I gave up and reformatted my drive.

[BluffTHIS!]

If he is not going to stop looking at porn as he should, then he will constantly be exposed to one of the biggest sources of security threats. So the question then is how fast a free app like Zone Alarm identifies and updates the signatures of its users. Norton's does this very fast and automatically. The more you expose yourself to known sources of such threats, then the more you need to protect yourself against the possibility of day 0 attacks.

[PokerGoblin]

I actually honestly didn't get the virus from downloading porn. I just thought it'd be funny to say that.

I actually think I got it from some random humor sites or something that I had been visiting. Those are the only things I'd done out of the ordinary before it happened.

Sorry to mislead, I didn't think the source of the virus was relavent.

Thanks for the advice

PG