How many Viruses is Norton protecting you from?

When i open "Norton anti virus" and look in "reports" and click on "view the list of viruses" and look on the bottom
it shows i'm protected from 47554 different viruses.
Well my friend shows a completly different number WHICH IS HIGHER than mine!

So i click on the update and it states "currently up to date"

How can this be possible, my system has less virus protection than my friend.

How many are you protected from?

Please take a look and post the number of viruses your system is showing.

Thanks so much : >

Blue



" Soon My Friend , Soon...."<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Bluerain on 01/17/02 02:58 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

Thanks Hammer : >

Blue

" Soon My Friend , Soon...."

Most anti-virus software do not give out exact number of viruses you are protected from... this is to give false sense of security to the virus writer themselves, thinking that 'their' virus is not in that anti-virus software.

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Wouldn't give much of a false sense of security. I'm sure most virus writers test their creations on a machine equipped with anti-virus software, before releasing them.

Keep up camieabz, we're on 58524 now, sheesh...

I'm running Norton virus 2002. I recently got a Trojan horse and Norton said it can't repair or delete it. So I install Trojan Remover, I ran the scan and it said "No malicious virus found". The Trojan horse came in a text format and it's still there in a folder and I can't delete it. How do I get rid of it?

What trojan did you get?

- What do you want to feel today?

LOL camieabz... Just realised this laptop has no AV software at all <gulp>

Comp... What files are in this folder then? Sounds a bit odd to me.

You guys are hiding in here too? How can you tell how many are protected?

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Norton AV update 5/1/02=60959 virus files.

<b><font color=blue> I took an I.Q. test today...It came back negative.</font color=blue></b>

The update just came out tonight.

<b><font color=blue> I took an I.Q. test today...It came back negative.</font color=blue></b>

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61291, as of june 18th... well it is here at least. more than the first post, but that was in january. meshes pretty well with that last guy's 61,245-ish from a week or two ago, imo.



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I don't even use Norton, and those numbers are often false. They are not always real, since Norton protects you from all the viruses they know off. And they don't know about all the viruses out there.

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SOPHOS antivirus protects me from 76759 viruses, trojans, and worms.

but that means absolutely nothing, as an anti-virus company can release cures for 5 variants of a same virus while another will release only 4 and offer as good a protection.

yet, I would not trust my network to Norton.

AVG antivirus. <A HREF="http://www.grisoft.com" target="_new">You can get it here</A>. Its free, and I have been using it ever scince I had to use t to clean the norton EXE file that got infected with a virus... Go fig.

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Now, let's have a countdown

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Just updated NAV, I am protected from 62772 different viruses.

Hey, I thought I would join in on this, too!

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