Norton and the patch

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danith222
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Norton and the patch

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Greetings all,

Was downloading the new patch and my Norton 360 went into a slow motion action hero moment and said "Nnnnooooooooo" and knocked the patch out of my greedy hands. I find it odd because the description of this threat was reports from the community. Anyone else seen this happen?

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The installer for Distant Worlds always triggered a flase positive with my virus scanner as well.
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Haha! People still use norton?
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Gareth_Bryne
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Norton is overtly... picky, in my experience.
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Norton is positively the worst antivirus ever and seems to think that pretty much everything is a threat.
Paranoid antivirus software if ever I seen one.
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Is that a professional opinion?[:D]
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Yes.
Using Norton is about as much fun as unanaesthetised bowel surgery.
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ORIGINAL: Setekh

Yes.
Using Norton is about as much fun as unanaesthetised bowel surgery.



Wow.....good one Setekh!
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I am sorry; I do not have the same opinion about Norton; I personally like it over others... My opinion, not countering anyone elses dislike...
And I set mine for maximim hueristics...

ANYWAY:
Set your anti-virus to ask you what you want to do with a file.
It always sends up a red-alert claxon when I download from Matrix because of the small number of downloads to say a DW patch.
So when it asks, I tell it to accept and then it usually says, 'file ok' after a couple of minutes.

It is the small number of downloads that is triggering Norton; if you have it ask you, you can override.
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ORIGINAL: Setekh

Norton is positively the worst antivirus ever...
I wouldn't say 'ever'. It was pretty good in 1996. ;)
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