Is my norton enough?

Question

my yahoo anti spy won't open or run, is my norton anti viris and spyware enough?Do i even need yahoo anti spy?

Answer 1

Most malwares are designed to attack popular

antivirus products (like Symantec, Norton ), but since free anti-virus product is much less used, it's capable of fighting the viruses when industry leaders fail.

Symantec/Norton are responsible for BSOD ( Blue Screen Of Death )

see story

http://www.computerworld.com/action/arti...

I would suggest that you get Avast Home Edition version 4,

which is free for personal use.

Avast is a very effective and free anti-virus program because it can do

a boot time scan in safe mode and it will remove the entire virus on your PC.

Even those viruses that hide inside the system restore folder.

Windows utilize a restore utility that backs up selected files

automatically to the System volume information /System Restore folder.

This means that an infected file could be stored there as a backup file,

and most anti-virus programs will be unable to delete these files. You

must disable the System Restore Utility to remove the infected files

from the folder if you use another brand of anti-virus. However, you do

not need to do so if you use Avast to do a boot up scan in safe mode.

Avast Anti-virus installation

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.ht...

How to configure Avast ?

http://www.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/soe/an...

For anti-spyware, you must get spybot search and destroy.

Spybot search and destroy is the best free anti-spyware tool that that contains many features.

http://www.safer-networking.org/

Spybot search and destroy immunize your computer against spyware.

It modifies Internet Explorer to block a lot of the bad stuff known to Spybot.

Answer 2

No - a young computer geek down the road from me said all you need is Norton, after talking with him for some time I got him to download malwarebytes (antispyware program), he ran Norton which stated he was clean then he ran malwarebytes which found two trojans & a number of spyware.

http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Ant...

(No need to buy free to try)

Answer 3

I say NOOOO i will never buy norton again. I bought  the norton best you can buy for my pc. I was told to try doing a search with a diff program and i found 3 viruses and 79 infections on my pc. I always had my norton updated always scanned daily and never picked anything up. Always told me my pc was clean when it wasnt. I would get something else

Answer 4

Sorry, but Norton is c*** and Yahoo antispy is no better.....what a bad combination!

Malwarebytes is great and finds a lot that Norton and Yahoo won't.

Also consider using Avast anti-virus better definitions, anti-spyware and anti-rootkit built in, faster and more reliable:

http://www.download.com/Avast-Home-Editi...

Setup Guide:

http://cotojo.wordpress.com/2008/07/15

Check the comparisons:

http://www.av-comparatives.org/

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-compare-h...

http://free.avg.com/ww.download-avg-anti...

Spyware Doctor Free Basic Edition - Realtime monitoring:

http://pack.google.com/intl/en/pack_inst...

Its free with Google pack, untick all boxes except Spyware Doctor. Download install, update and run.

A-Squared Free:

http://www.download.com/A-squared-Free/3...

This is not a limited version but a full tool to clean your computer from Malware, Spyware, Trojans, Backdoors, Worms, Dialers and Keyloggers.

How to use:

http://cotojo.wordpress.com/2008/07/07

Spybot S&D:

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/downl...

Download, install, update and Immunize, turn off Tea Timer then click 'Check for problems' then when complete select all and then 'Fix Checked'