Cloud Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 Is windows defender(beta 2) any good? I'm on normal XP home edtion. I have norton 06 installed. Will it clash with this software or support it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insane_alien Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 norton is almost definitely far superior as it is a matured antivirus program meaning that it has stood up to countless tests and is stable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloud Posted July 3, 2006 Author Share Posted July 3, 2006 Defender is spyware only. Norton has spyware detection too. I guess there's no reason in bothering with defender especially since its still beta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insane_alien Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 same principle applies. Norton has been doing this stuff for years M$ hasn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 Heh I can't get windows defender to update its defs (running XP SP2 in VMware) Windows Defender was unable to complete the update: 0x8024001d. The system cannot write to the specified device Google says nothing :/ edit: fixed it by deleting C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloud Posted July 3, 2006 Author Share Posted July 3, 2006 Is norton that reliable (even after a decade of experience) - I ran a scan and its picked up over 100 viruses and 20 spyware and quarantined them automatically. Is it safe to delete all 100+ items from the quarantine log? Most have been classifed as viruses. Some of them are of type "unknown." Not too sure. Also, I think these viruses have been dormant on the system and have just been activated . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 I'd trust Norton. If anything it is overcautious. It tries to delete joke viruses, which kind of annoys me because there's one which I like and I have on my HDD, whenever Norton scans it tries to delete it. Also when occasionally Avast will pick something which Norton does not. At the end of the day if Norton wanted to delete something, I would look where the file was, if it was a file which I know I added and I trusted it I would leave it (like my joke virus file) however if I did not recognise it I would delete it. Although I might try one thing first. Visit this site: http://virusscan.jotti.org/ upload the file and see what the results produce. Sometimes that site is slow and there's a wait, but it's worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloud Posted July 6, 2006 Author Share Posted July 6, 2006 Norton 06 has been very efficient so far. Ok, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herme3 Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 I don't like Norton. It will sometimes find a virus, and then show an "Access Denied" error when it tries to delete the file. The file is locked because it is being read by the operating system or another program. So, Norton will just ignore the virus instead of trying to delete it later! I once had a virus scanner that would delete any locked virus files the next time the computer started up. I can't remember the name of the virus scanner, but the company that created it doesn't exist anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 Avast offers what you mentioned, herme3. That is also one of many advantages a "boot time scan", as offered by Avast, has over traditional scans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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