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Thanks to those who gave advice...
Thought this was interesting enough to mention.
Used Norton Internet Security for years (legacy stuff). Last was
2004 ed. In Nov 2005 they stopped supporting it, now verbally asking
for $80+ to setup with new definitions etc.
Regualurly updated. eg every day checking for daily Intelligent
Updates, running scans etc.
Unloaded Norton, Loaded BitDefender9. It found a virus ... from the
log :- E:\TheBat!\MAIL\jonmac\Omega List\Omega #3\MESSAGES.TBB=>
(message 51)=>(JAVASCRIPT 1) Infected: JS.Nimda.A
For years Norton missed this. Why?
To unload Norton:-
- usual stuff via Control Panel add/remove
- delete left over folders
- run Norton's SymNRT.exe
- run CCleaner
- regedit / view / find / delete as many entries as I could find for
Norton & Symantec (gave up after awhile; seemed never ending).
- empty recycle bin
- registered Jscript.dll :- run/ regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\jscript.dll
(this is cause removing Norton buggers Microsoft Windows Script).
AT this point my Omega-List digests returned to being alittle
corrupted; .msg changed to .txt. Missing headers etc.
- found more Norton remnants :- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - SOFTWARE - had
folders for Symantec & Live Update. Deleted these (forget exact
names).
- re registered Jscript.dll
- run CCleaner
So far so good!
Have subjective reason to believe machine is running faster.
Mailwasher & TheBat do their collections much faster, but lag abit
when firsr run after booting.
Many recognise the overhaed of Norton scanning. Wonder if their was
also an overhead when liveupdate starts talky talky
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Regards,
jon mailto:jonmac@xxxxxxxxxxx
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