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Norton and the patch - 8/3/2012 6:44:41 PM

danith222

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Greetings all,

Was downloading the new patch and my Norton 360 went into a slow motion action hero moment and said "Nnnnooooooooo" and knocked the patch out of my greedy hands. I find it odd because the description of this threat was reports from the community. Anyone else seen this happen?

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RE: Norton and the patch - 8/3/2012 11:49:49 PM

rogerbacon51

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The installer for Distant Worlds always triggered a flase positive with my virus scanner as well.

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RE: Norton and the patch - 8/4/2012 7:22:18 AM

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Haha! People still use norton?
Real men dont need protection!

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RE: Norton and the patch - 8/4/2012 8:38:25 AM

Gareth_Bryne

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Norton is overtly... picky, in my experience.

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RE: Norton and the patch - 8/5/2012 9:38:44 PM

Setekh

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Norton is positively the worst antivirus ever and seems to think that pretty much everything is a threat.
Paranoid antivirus software if ever I seen one.

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RE: Norton and the patch - 8/6/2012 4:10:18 PM

Gareth_Bryne

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Is that a professional opinion?

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RE: Norton and the patch - 8/7/2012 1:02:47 AM

Setekh

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Yes.
Using Norton is about as much fun as unanaesthetised bowel surgery.

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RE: Norton and the patch - 8/7/2012 2:32:11 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Setekh

Yes.
Using Norton is about as much fun as unanaesthetised bowel surgery.

Wow.....good one Setekh!

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RE: Norton and the patch - 8/7/2012 8:07:21 PM

tjhkkr

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I am sorry; I do not have the same opinion about Norton; I personally like it over others... My opinion, not countering anyone elses dislike...
And I set mine for maximim hueristics...

ANYWAY:
Set your anti-virus to ask you what you want to do with a file.
It always sends up a red-alert claxon when I download from Matrix because of the small number of downloads to say a DW patch.
So when it asks, I tell it to accept and then it usually says, 'file ok' after a couple of minutes.

It is the small number of downloads that is triggering Norton; if you have it ask you, you can override.

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RE: Norton and the patch - 8/8/2012 11:07:46 AM

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