anti-virus conflict

I use Norton in past and i have no problems with it but if you ever thing of change it i suggest Avast.
I use it and i find and great.Daily update and not at all power hungry.
You only need to send them an e-mail for your free registration.Have a look here ➡

www.avast.com

Here you can find the Free version. ➡

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

😉

I have Norton, updated daily, and have no problem running FS9 as long as I turn off my modem before I begin running FS. However, if I leave the modem on, FS9 will crash in a variety of ways when Norton tries to access the internet, which it does automatically.

I haven't had it happen to me yet. Based on research studys Norton is the worst that you can have. Zone Alarm was rated number 1 in that study.
Zone Alarm: http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp

Are we discussing Firewall or Anti-Virus?

sorry to interrupt,but use avast.I have it since a while,and it works like a charm. 😉

PanAmerican wrote:

I haven't had it happen to me yet. Based on research studys Norton is the worst that you can have. Zone Alarm was rated number 1 in that study.
Zone Alarm: http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp

These are two different things dear Panam.Norton is an Antivirus and ZoneAlarm is a firewall.There a lot of people that confuse these two things.I have seen a system in a friendly house that has only Firewall and no Antivirus and they thing that they were protected. 😉

I have Norton but my subsription has expired. What does this mean?? Am I still protected??

pilotwannabe wrote:

I have Norton but my subsription has expired. What does this mean?? Am I still protected??

Yes you are. 😉 But anyway go to Avast.I have done the same.

Some good advice and links posted here. 😉

I also use Norton (not for long though), I also disconnect my router and turn off Norton Antivirus before starting up FS9. There's a tip for yer, anything (anti) running in the background will affect the performance of MS FS, so switch it off, unless you remain on-line whilst running FS ofcourse.
Anyway, back to the post, I was just posting this link so some programmes can be compared. 😉

http://anti-virus-software-review.toptenreviews.com/?ttreng=1&ttrkey=antivirus+software

Tailhook wrote:

Are we discussing Firewall or Anti-Virus?

Antivirus was my original concern.

After reviewing these helpful posts, I believe I will definately shut down my modem and close my norton user session before doing any more gaming. My norton may soon be going away as well - they have zero in the way of customer service ❗

Greekman72 wrote:

pilotwannabe wrote:

I have Norton but my subsription has expired. What does this mean?? Am I still protected??

Yes you are. 😉 But anyway go to Avast.I have done the same.

exactly,your're protected,but you won't get any updates against new viruses.change to avast,and if you need a firewall use zonealarm.

Well, i've downloaded avast and it seems Norton was doing its job Just done a virus scan with avast and it seems my system is infected with just about everything; viruses, tojans, adware....
Just one question though, now I have avast should I uninstall Norton. I've had to disable it anyway becasue they can't work simultaneously.

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I'm not sure,gm probably knows more than I do about this,but I would say yes,cause you won't need it any more and you already disabled it. 😉

hms_endeavour wrote:

I'm not sure,gm probably knows more than I do about this,but I would say yes,cause you won't need it any more and you already disabled it. 😉

Thanks HMS. I disabled it becasue Avast didn't like it but my 'autoprotect' which by the way clearly doesn't protect appears to still be able to be active with avast running.

roger.let's see what the others say.

pilotwannabe wrote:

Well, i've downloaded avast and it seems Norton was doing its job Just done a virus scan with avast and it seems my system is infected with just about everything; viruses, tojans, adware....
Just one question though, now I have avast should I uninstall Norton. I've had to disable it anyway becasue they can't work simultaneously.

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An antivirus program will not protect you from adware - use Spybot and Ad-Aware (both free) for that purpose.

Your question re uninstalling Norton:

Disconnect from the internet, switch off your modem. Disable avast -- enable Norton antivirus. Uninstall Norton antivirus completely. Enable avast again --- you're done.

These are two different things dear Panam.Norton is an Antivirus and ZoneAlarm is a firewall.There a lot of people that confuse these two things.

Indeed. -- I would like to point out though that there are plenty of folks who confuse Norton Antivirus with Norton Internet Protection.
The latter containing both, Antivirus and Firewall.

The confusion is evident even in this thread.

I dunno what to say,but avast protects me from adware... 🙂

Greekman72 wrote:

PanAmerican wrote:

I haven't had it happen to me yet. Based on research studys Norton is the worst that you can have. Zone Alarm was rated number 1 in that study.
Zone Alarm: http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp

These are two different things dear Panam.Norton is an Antivirus and ZoneAlarm is a firewall.There a lot of people that confuse these two things.I have seen a system in a friendly house that has only Firewall and no Antivirus and they thing that they were protected. 😉

Umm, take a look at the Zone Labs site and you will find they offer firewall, anti-virus and anti-spyware products under the zonealarm name.

Probably i miss something ans sorry people for this but due to my hate about ZA i dont want even to visit their site.

Greekman72 wrote:

Probably i miss something ans sorry people for this but due to my hate about ZA i dont want even to visit their site.

I knew you didn't like them. It's the same reason I can't say much about Norton. 😉

By the way, if anyone doesn't like Avast, try the free version of AVG. I've found it uses a little less RAM and is quite effective.

Confirm about AVG.

I leant off zone and just went back to microsoft. 🙄

I tried to uninstall Norton and got the following message...

The installation package could not be opened. Contact the application vendor to verify that this is a vaild Windows installation package

Any ideas???

Also with Avast I have had to move hundreds of files to 'the chest' but i'm not really sure what to do with thm now. Delete them??

Thanks 😉

hms_endeavour wrote:

I leant off zone and just went back to microsoft. 🙄

The only problem with MS is that while it guards against inbound connection attempts, it does nothing to stop programs on your computer from phoning home.

pilotwannabe wrote:

I tried to uninstall Norton and got the following message...

The installation package could not be opened. Contact the application vendor to verify that this is a vaild Windows installation package

Any ideas???

Also with Avast I have had to move hundreds of files to 'the chest' but i'm not really sure what to do with thm now. Delete them??

Thanks 😉

As far as the Norton uninstall problem. How did you go about it, but using the control panel or Norton's uninstaller directly?

As far as Avast quarantining hundreds of files, can you give an example of some of the file names?

CrashGordon wrote:

As far as the Norton uninstall problem. How did you go about it, but using the control panel or Norton's uninstaller directly?

As far as Avast quarantining hundreds of files, can you give an example of some of the file names?

I did both, from the start list and the control panel, got the same message both times.

Files....
➡ C:\System Volume Information\_restore{1450A557-4027-4F57-AFFC-65B5F7AFB22A}R\...

There are quite a few of those files and...

➡ C:\Windows\System 32 (not good 😞 )

and there's also a couple in my program files

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i used to have Norton but i uninstalled it and used Freedom security & privacy. Freedom works pretty well for me. (p.s. norton came with my computer)

If your Pc came with Northon it will be very hard to uninstall all componets of it; i had the problem and never could delet Northon completly. Don´t know why, until today i don´t. Buy if you install a copy of Northon it will be less hard to delet it from your computer.
When i tryed to delet my Northon i had to re-install windows, becouse some problems northon gave as present after trying to kill the hell out of my PC. 😕

Norton sucks. If you want a good all around program get system mechanic pro. you get anti virus, firewall and utility programs to help clean and protect your computer.

Zone alarm is OK

Oberkomando wrote:

If your Pc came with Northon it will be very hard to uninstall all componets of it; i had the problem and never could delet Northon completly. Don´t know why, until today i don´t. Buy if you install a copy of Northon it will be less hard to delet it from your computer.
When i tryed to delet my Northon i had to re-install windows, becouse some problems northon gave as present after trying to kill the hell out of my PC. 😕

Mine came with Norton and uninstalling it was easy and uneventful.

CrashGordon wrote:

Oberkomando wrote:

If your Pc came with Northon it will be very hard to uninstall all componets of it; i had the problem and never could delet Northon completly. Don´t know why, until today i don´t. Buy if you install a copy of Northon it will be less hard to delet it from your computer.
When i tryed to delet my Northon i had to re-install windows, becouse some problems northon gave as present after trying to kill the hell out of my PC. 😕

Mine came with Norton and uninstalling it was easy and uneventful.

I wasn´t that lucky... 😞 .
Now i have northon and it is ok for me, i think it is not the best of all, but it is a good anti virus. 🙂

CrashGordon wrote:

Mine came with Norton and uninstalling it was easy and uneventful.

How did you do it Crash ❓ ❓