How many Viruses is Norton protecting you from?

BlueRain · Jan 17, 2002

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...."Edited by Bluerain on 01/17/02 02:58 PM.

hammerhead · Jan 18, 2002

Just installed Norton AV 2002 on my Windows XP system. Ran live update and the number of viruses I'm protected from is...

58459

BlueRain · Jan 18, 2002

Thanks Hammer : >

Blue

" Soon My Friend , Soon...."

camieabz · Jan 18, 2002

58410, so I must need to do an update.

~scribble~

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wailunl · Jan 23, 2002

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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Wai Lun Lee

camieabz · Jan 23, 2002

58459. Better.

Hmm. Makes sense. You would think its not on the list anyway if the writer is writing it.

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hammerhead · Jan 24, 2002

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...

Flyboy · Feb 2, 2002

Just updated it...got 58611.

CompIliterate · Apr 25, 2002

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?

camieabz · Apr 25, 2002

60762.

What's keeping you.

~ What do you mean "It isn't working!"...Now where's my sonic screwdriver? ~

orbz · Apr 26, 2002

What trojan did you get?

:frown:

:redface:

:lol: :tongue:

- What do you want to feel today?

CompIliterate · Apr 28, 2002

I forgot when's the name. All I know that it's a Trojan horse. I dont know how it got in. I'm using Linksys router.

hammerhead · Apr 30, 2002

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.

OldBear · Apr 30, 2002

Now it's up to 60915.
Somebody is very busy writing virus.