Re: Panda or Norton?

Art wrote:
On Tue, 30 May 2006 10:22:02 -0700, "Sasha Gottfried"
<sashago@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I have Norton 2006 installed in my new HP 1430n. It seems to do a decent job. But when I run Panda's active-scan it comes up with 27 Spywares and 2 hacking tools that Norton does not pick up. I also run ADWARE SE and SPYBOT regularly and just prior to running the Panda on-line scan.

My question is: Are these problems that Panda finds false positives? Are they just marketing ploys? Or, are they real malware issues that need to be repaired?

I've attached the Panda report and would appreciate any analysis or opinions on this matter.

When you discount the ridiculuous alerts on harmless cookies, you are
left with only four. Of those, two appear to be alerts on commercial
software which can most likely be ignored. That leaves one alleged
spyware and one alleged adware (the last two in the list). Does Panda
elsewhere show you where it finds these items so they can be pin
pointed and checked out? If not, chalk it up to a waste of your time
and effort.

If you insist on using online malware scans, use a good one. See what
Kaspersky has to say:

http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner

And run scans for spyware and adware using programs designed
for the purpose. Panda is not one.

Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg

After some 15 years I dumped Norton for AVG and Avast (run on different machines). Why, Norton was definitely slowing machines down and was intrusive. AVG or Avast sit quietly in the background and just do the job updating sometimes as much as three times a day. But neither remove malware, adware and other non-virus stuff. For that you need to run something like Ad-Aware (now offered by google as a free downloader) and Spybot search and destroy plus Mr Gates' Defender. Unfortunately there is nothing (yet) on the market that does everything within one package reliably and without constantly telling you what a good product it is and can we please have some more of your cash etc. etc. I think this is one area where the free stuff is vastly superior to the paid for stuff. Being cynical it wouldn't be because if the software houses ship dodgy stuff they can charge another shipload of money to sell you the new improved version, would it?

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