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[Mem]

PS: To the Bitdefender owner who asked about shell integration... it works for me. I right click on a file or folder and there's a Bitdefender Scan option

Yep it does work fine,I`m using Bitdefender 7.2 Pro at the moment it`s working great,auto update is good with regular updates,had about 3 DAT updates in 4 days.

 

[MDesigner]

Originally posted by: MDesigner
Hmm, Bitdefender 7.2 is acting funny. After some period of time, the resident auto protect (Virus Shield) just seems to stop working. It still says it's enabled, but I can tell it's no longer scanning when I go through my folders and open up files. What's going on?? This makes it lose some serious points. Even if my machine is bogged down with software and I haven't reformatted in 6 months, that's still no reason for the antivirus software to just QUIT.

Bitdefender support just told me this is a known issue. Actually, they said that e-mail scanning can stop working suddenly..but I think the two problems are similar and probably related. Yuck. That's a fairly serious bug in my book.

 

[Mem]

Bitdefender support just told me this is a known issue. Actually, they said that e-mail scanning can stop working suddenly..but I think the two problems are similar and probably related. Yuck. That's a fairly serious bug in my book.

That sure is,I`ve to keep an eye on that,but I do like the layout of Bitdefender 7.2 Pro, plus the firewall thrown in as well is nice a touch,anyway lets hope it`s fixed real soon.

 

[Spudd]

Great thread. I had Norton 2003 thanks to my school, updated the dat files then scanned your virii.zip file: it only found 3. Tried several times, only found 3. Uninstalled that and downloaded full version of Symantec Corporate Edition 8.0 through my school and updated the dat files, then scanned a new download of the virii.zip file (note the previous one was the one with 7 virii in it). Symantec only found 5. Hmm. Not good.

So, I went checking out the other stuff out there. Did the whole process over agagin using PC CIllin 2002 which came with my motherboard, updated the dats, and it only found 5. Argh.

Installed NOD32 updated dat files, and it found: nothing. Eh???

Unistalled NOD32 (just as I did with the other antivirus proggies before installing a new test program).

Installed Panda Titanium shareware, downloaded my 1 free dat update: scanned a new copy of virii.zip. It found: all 7 virii and trojans. Nice. I like the interface and I'll be buying it shortly. Good bye buggy Norton!!

 

[MDesigner]

PANDA PLATINUM 7 FOR FREE!! Free for IT professionals. LINK

 

[MDesigner]

Originally posted by: Spudd

Installed NOD32 updated dat files, and it found: nothing. Eh???

Unistalled NOD32 (just as I did with the other antivirus proggies before installing a new test program).

Installed Panda Titanium shareware, downloaded my 1 free dat update: scanned a new copy of virii.zip. It found: all 7 virii and trojans. Nice. I like the interface and I'll be buying it shortly. Good bye buggy Norton!!

Hehe, yeah.. NOD32 is a joke. Sure it only protects against viruses (not trojans), but so what?? Most of the threats out there these days are trojans and worms!

 

[Spudd]

By the way, does anybody know where one could snag Panda Titanium cheaper than their website? No warez please. lol The thought alone brings a smile to my face: downloading a warezed antivirus program. LOL.

 

[MDesigner]

Yeah Spud, see the link above. It's free for IT professionals @ home.

 

[Spudd]

Originally posted by: MDesigner
Yeah Spud, see the link above. It's free for IT professionals @ home.

Thanks for the link. I'm not an IT Prof. so I'll just snag the 6 months package for $20 bucks and call that George.

 

[Argo]

VirusScan caught only 2 out of 3.

 

[MDesigner]

Originally posted by: Spudd

Originally posted by: MDesigner
Yeah Spud, see the link above. It's free for IT professionals @ home.

Thanks for the link. I'm not an IT Prof. so I'll just snag the 6 months package for $20 bucks and call that George.

Yeah I bought the Titanium version for 6 months.. $20. Not bad at all.

 

[sxr7171]

Originally posted by: MDesigner

Originally posted by: Spudd

Originally posted by: MDesigner
Yeah Spud, see the link above. It's free for IT professionals @ home.

Thanks for the link. I'm not an IT Prof. so I'll just snag the 6 months package for $20 bucks and call that George.

Yeah I bought the Titanium version for 6 months.. $20. Not bad at all.

I'm about to do the same. I looked into doing a group buy, buy you only save $6 on the 1 year version ($39.99 -> $34.35) if we bought 50. It's definitely not worth the hassle. I'm going to be so happy to take every Symantec product off my machine.

 

[Spudd]

Weird thing just happened. I bought and downloaded Panda's Titanium 2004 version w/ 6 months of updates from their website. I uninstalled the trial version, restarted, and fired up the download. Well, the program tells me it detects an installation of Nod32. Now, the Nod32 that I tried out never seemed to install to anywhere, nor can I find it in Add/Remove, nor can I find a program called nod32.exe. What's up with that? Registry droppings??? :Q

 

[MDesigner]

Probably just leftover registry crap. Check the registry and remove stuff manually if you have to.

PS, congrats to those dumping Norton and getting Panda Norton is such garbage.

 

[Spudd]

Originally posted by: MDesigner
Probably just leftover registry crap. Check the registry and remove stuff manually if you have to.

PS, congrats to those dumping Norton and getting Panda Norton is such garbage.

To be on the safe side, here's the name of the file I downloaded: nod32_20040209.exe Hope it wasn't something fishy. Heh. I'm weeding through my registry deleting nod32 entries. :beer:

 

[Spudd]

Ok, it was just registry droppings apparently. Found several turds as well as a whole folder with refs and dumped them. Just installed Panda and updated the def files in about 15 seconds. Currently running a full scan. Me likey. Scanner running in background, Internet explorer open, and only averaging 15% CPU use! Un-freakin-believable when I consider both Norton Antivirus 2003 and Symantec Corp. Ed. 8.0. Both of them would basically make my computer unusable during a scan, and I've got a fairly fast computer. Great thread MD.

 

[simms]

I've heard of virii and trojans.. what's a RAT?

 

[Argo]

Ran this at home and Norton Antivirus 2k2 with lattest updates actually found 4 virii

 

[Spudd]

Originally posted by: Argo
Ran this at home and Norton Antivirus 2k2 with lattest updates actually found 4 virii

But there are 7 in that file. lol

 

[SaturnX]

Ok... Norton 2004 (as part of System Works 2004 Professional, with the latest updates), I got 10 alerts right after the download finished, and with a manual scan I found one more... Anyways, here's a PSD file of all the alerts I got...


SaturnX's NAV2004 Alerts

--Mark

 

[Argo]

Originally posted by: Spudd

Originally posted by: Argo
Ran this at home and Norton Antivirus 2k2 with lattest updates actually found 4 virii

But there are 7 in that file. lol

I downloaded the lattest update and scanned the file one more time. This time it found 6 virii. It missed Backdoor.ServU file.

 

[Spudd]

Originally posted by: Argo

Originally posted by: Spudd

Originally posted by: Argo
Ran this at home and Norton Antivirus 2k2 with lattest updates actually found 4 virii

But there are 7 in that file. lol

I downloaded the lattest update and scanned the file one more time. This time it found 6 virii. It missed Backdoor.ServU file.

1 too many in my book; that's why I switched.

 

[cavemanmoron]

fix it utiluties auto file scan notified me,about the same time the files were finished downloading,
and before i had time to try to unzip/open them.

I updated the program last,about 2 days ago.

 

[Spacehead]

Norton AV 2004
Version 10.0.1.13
Fully updated 2/18/04
Heuristics for auto protect & manual scan set to max

These were auto detected & deleted after D/L was complete:
backdoor.iroffer.1217.exe
backdoor.server.generic.exe
bat.kifer.b.bat
trojan.dropper.kifer.b.exe
win32.torvil.b.exe

manual scan(right click) of zip found virtool.hiddenrun
Unzipped the remaining files to a folder & did a right click scan, no threats were found. Open Norton's & did a manual scan from the 'Scan for Viruses' area. No threats were found.

Backdoor.ServU.B.exe & BAT.Delete.exe are not detected on my computer, even though i'm looking at them in a folder

Originally posted by: Kev
I found 4 out of 7 with Symantec AV Corporate edition. What a piece of junk

Originally posted by: sxr7171

Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
nav 2004 pro with latest defs only caught 5 of 7

My NAV 2004 Professional Defs dated 2/17/2004 caught 6 out of 7 upon manual right click scan.
It failed to catch Backdoor.ServU.B.exe

Originally posted by: zimu
my norton 2004 didn't catch the serv-u backdoor one.

everything else was removed.

 

[Monoman]

Glad I am was able to snag that free PANDA Plat 7 (thanks work ) becasue I was using eTrust EZ antivirus and it found 2 of the 8 virii freaking terrible and I was running it on one of my servers to compare it to my other AVS. good grief!

Mitch