ID:184694
 Jul 26 2006, 10:22 am
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At 1:11pm I have blocked a back door trojan virus, reporting that you have virus roaming about, be careful it will hinder server developments!!! | |
OMG, it's not falling, than what about tha... *is knocked unconcious (spelling?) from a piece of a cloud... don't ask how that is possible... both it falling and how I could be knocked out :P)
Which antivirus you have? Zone labs seems like it's paranoid to me... - GhostAnime | |
GhostAnime wrote:
Which antivirus you have? Zone labs seems like it's paranoid to me... ZoneLabs create anti-viruses now? I always thought they restricted themselves to making firewalls. And how can it be "paranoid"? Seems to me that either there is a trojan or there isn't, and there isn't anything inbetween. -- Data | |
Yes, they do have an anti-virus... and I forgot to put in that it's firewall seems paranoid :X >.<
- GhostAnime | |
Ghost means that Zonelabs firewall freaks out about everything (it does), and can seriously restrict your access to the internet.
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Thats why you go into the control panel for zonelabs, and set the settings you want. If you don't want it to ask you about certain things, put a check by the program or check 'Always remember' when the window pops up.
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GhostAnime wrote:
and I forgot to put in that it's firewall seems paranoid As it should. It's better to be too paranoid than not enough. It's supposed to be that way, then you are supposed to tell it what you want to allow or restrict access to by going into its options and allowing the programs you use to have network access, then as it pops up warnings about other things, you use those to keep it updated. | |
Use Norton and have it tell you that a StarCraft map is a virus because it has extended Ascii in the map's name. That counts as mild paranoia to me. =)
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Zonelabs sucks for virus protection...they're horrible. Norton isn't that great either. I have had great luck with McAfee.
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Kamikashin wrote:
Zonelabs sucks for virus protection...they're horrible. Norton isn't that great either. I have had great luck with McAfee. I've had better luck with AVG than I've had with anything else. So have many others I know. | |
Some people comments are weird but this I think is funny... I had a friend that used two bought Norton Antivirus programs downloaded and it kept saying the other program had a virus... I think Norton Anti Virus is a virus ;)..
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WonderBear wrote:
I think Norton Anti Virus is a virus ;).. I agree. Norton's recent offerings suck. If not a virus, it's at least spyware. It slows down the computer, pops up annoying dialogs when you least expect them, and phones home every few days - sounds like spyware to me! =P | |
Crispy wrote:
WonderBear wrote: Lmao that against thier rules you could charge them for that, it even says they wont use your information to contact you, but at least it did help clean out some components of viruses from my computer. If they do that to other people then I better get rid of this program and get a refund! ;)... | |
Heh - when I said "phone home" I was referring to downloading virus updates. It's a bit of a stretch to call that "phoning home", I admit, but hey - it's satire. I'm allowed. =P
I don't think it actually passes on personal details or anything. | |
The word Norton is normally followed by hours of headaches in my line of work. We actually replaced Norton with AVG on all the computers that we don't have e-Trust licenses for. That is around 11 computers, just so you know. After upgrading to AVG, the computers ran faster, installers did a better job, and AVG seems to do a better job about keeping its darn mouth shut about stupid [crap].
world<< "Norton: Scanning file" sleep(10) world<< "Norton: Scanning incoming email" sleep(10) world<< "Norton: Update needed" sleep(10) world<< "Norton: Scanning without your permission during peek usage time" sleep(10 hours) world<< "Norton: No virus detected, scanning again to be safe" ... I could keep going with this. Installing even the smalled program had its install time doubled or tripled. Oh yeah, these a P4 3Ghrz. | |
Android Data wrote:
ZoneLabs create anti-viruses now? I always thought they restricted themselves to making firewalls. That one surprised me too. And how can it be "paranoid"? Seems to me that either there is a trojan or there isn't, and there isn't anything inbetween. Trojans often disguise themselves so they're harder to remove, so an antivirus program can indeed be paranoid in looking for them. It involves searching for particular signs of activity, and producing false positives based on seeing things that are innocuous but could potentially be a trojan. In the old days antivirus programs used to be paranoid about different things. Programmers often found their compiled programs being considered viruses because the .exe was being changed. Lummox JR | |
Please apply some common sense before you post. This is not a bug, therefore does not belong in Bug Reports. Moved.
Blocking a trojan doesn't mean anything. It doesn't tell you jack about where it came from or whether you're even infected. Antivirus programs detect possible trojan activity all the time whenever someone scans your machine's ports looking for an open one. This has nothing to do with BYOND, and it doesn't mean you're infected. All it means is that someone tried to see if you were infected, probably by scanning through every address in your subnet. (And a trojan and a virus are not the same thing anyway.)
The sky is not falling.
Lummox JR