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February 6, 2005 at 4:58 pm #16806Jeff HesterKeymaster
I have this weird problem where Norton Antivirus appears to be conflicting with Office XP. Everytime I sign in to XP, I get the following error (click the thumbnail). I’m not sure if it’s NAV that’s trying to update or Office XP.
Any suggestions?
UPDATE: Problem solved, thanks to Google. I have to say, I’m not to happy with a Norton Antivirus. This is the second problem I’ve had where Symantec’s recommended solution is to disable functionality that I paid for. Buggy piece of grrrrrrrrrrr…
February 6, 2005 at 5:04 pm #113849DavidParticipantWhy would you think it’s Office? I’d suggest you uninstall and reinstall NAV, that will probably fix it.
February 6, 2005 at 5:12 pm #113847Jeff HesterKeymasterI think it’s Office because (I neglected to mention) the same message also comes up with opening any Office document. As I noted my edit to the intial post, the problem is now resolved.
What really pisses me off is that Symantec’s official solution to the problem is to disable Norton Antivirus protection for Office documents. How is that a solution? To me, they are admitting that their product doesn’t work properly.
February 11, 2005 at 10:00 pm #113851kyuubiMemberhaha…that’s why we dump Norton and get NOD32….;)
February 11, 2005 at 10:14 pm #113848Jeff HesterKeymaster@kyuubi]haha…that’s why we dump Norton and get NOD32…. )[/QUOTE wrote:
Ok, I’ll bite. What is NOD32? Do you have a link, please?
February 11, 2005 at 10:55 pm #113850MartinBradleyMemberThere ya go Jeff.
February 12, 2005 at 3:44 am #113852kyuubiMemberhaha…Jeff…trust me….NOD32 is simply the best thing out there…it’s light and fast with 100% detection rate 8 years and going! It’s so light you won’t even know its running (other than when it catch a nasty bug) and the scanning is lightning fast. Generally from 10-20 minutes. You’ll also be glad to know that definition updates are daily. So you’ll always be getting the best protection. 😉 Try it, you’ll love it.
February 16, 2005 at 9:58 pm #113855SS_AntiHackerMemberDear Jeff,
I do not think the source of the problem is because of NAV or Office XP. I used NAV2004, NAV2005, Office XP, Office 2003 with different combinations before without any problems.
And as for the NOD32, it is a decent antivirus program, very fast indeed, the fastest I might say but overall at detecting viruses, trojan, malware, etc. is not that good. I would grade NAV a 90% detection rate & NOD32 72%.
February 17, 2005 at 9:33 pm #113853kyuubiMemberWHAT?!?!?…..72%?!?!?….have you read the latest Virus Bulletin?….NOD32 is the only “non-brand-name” AV company that achevied 7 years of 100% detection rate and going…I really don’t know where you are reading that from but you should check out your source again…:
February 18, 2005 at 12:39 am #113856SS_AntiHackerMemberDear kyuubi,
As a security expert, also programmed myself an Antivirus software. Let me explain to you more clearly so you can understand as well as anyone who doesn’t know about this. To get an award for the VB 100%, you have to detect all (100%) of viruses in the wild and no false detection in any clean file. As of this writing, there are a total of more than 120,000 viruses but there are only about 300 viruses in the wild. Even my antivirus could do that. NOD32 advertised itself as having a VB 100% award, well…that’s true, but also goes to 98% of antivirus out there. Detecting all 300/120,000 viruses is not something special.
I tested NOD32 with 100,000 clean files and NOD32 came up with 155 infected files, very BAD indeed. And as for unknown viruses, it missed about 60% of them. As for speed, it did well, the fastest of them all.
Overall, NOD32 is lucky just to get the VB 100% award for its false positive on clean files. VB 100 might not tested enough clean files in all cases or they just get lucky =)
But hey, if you like NOD32, that’s perfectly fine with me. Those who never use NOD32, go ahead, give it a try 😉
February 20, 2005 at 4:55 am #113854kyuubiMember…..but I don’t know…..7 years in a row is kinda hard on luck don’t you think?…..=/
February 21, 2005 at 7:11 am #113857SS_AntiHackerMember7 years on the row for 100% detection of viruses in the wild, not 100% for every viruses out there.
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