Re: Panda or Norton?
- From: "Sasha Gottfried" <sashago@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 08:27:38 -0700
I assume you mean the free AVG?
Marc
"drifter" <drifter45@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Art wrote:
On Tue, 30 May 2006 10:22:02 -0700, "Sasha Gottfried"After some 15 years I dumped Norton for AVG and Avast (run on different
<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
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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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