full-disclosure - Re: Microsoft AntiSpyware attacks Norton AV?

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Date: Mon Feb 13 02:18:17 2006
From: me at n33t.org (Nick Hyatt)
Subject: Re: Microsoft AntiSpyware attacks Norton  AV?

I disagree.

In our troubleshooting environment, we use 4 applications to remove spyware
/ malware / virus infections from customer systems - AVG, MS Antispyware,
Ad-Aware PE and Spybot S&D. We've found that it takes 4+ applications plus
some manual digging with Hijack This and RegscrubXP to get rid of the most
serious infections.

As far as Norton goes, totally and fully agree - get rid of it.

Nick Hyatt
me@...t.org

-----Original Message-----
From: full-disclosure-bounces@...ts.grok.org.uk
[mailto:full-disclosure-bounces@...ts.grok.org.uk] On Behalf Of Nancy Kramer
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 7:48 PM
To: Dave Korn; full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Re: Microsoft AntiSpyware attacks Norton AV?

At 07:05 PM 2/12/2006, Dave Korn wrote:

>   No, let me correct that.  You need to fully uninstall it then throw 
>it in the bin and get something better[*].  Oh, and don't let MS beta 
>software run on any of your machines.

I concur.  Been there done that got the viruses.  If it weren't for AVG I
would probably have had to format my hard drive.

MS software doesn't work all that well in production versions.  Don't put
their beta's on any machine that is anything else but a test machine.

Regards,

Nancy Kramer
Webmaster http://www.americandreamcars.com Free Color Picture Ads for
Collector Cars One of the Ten Best Places To Buy or Sell a Collector Car on
the Web 

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