Original Wally
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Norton is generally ineffective against the Kramden virus, so multiple layers of protection are advisable.
Ya, I was expecting Ed too.
Norton is generally ineffective against the Kramden virus, so multiple layers of protection are advisable.
Does doing a system restore, to some previous non-infected state, remove viruses?
I ran a network of 1500-2000 DOS/Windows 3.1/NT4/XP PCs for 18 years and we never spent a cent on anti-virus software. It doesn't work and the threat is vastly operhyped by anti-virus manufacturers, especially compared to the more mundane threats posed by systematic hard drive failure (ask anyone who knows why Fujitsu withdrew from the HD business) or underpaid outsourced network management people taking revenge on their boss/customer by trashing every PC on the network (it can be done with a single command line statement).I've spent $0 on security software in decades of computing.
I'm not saying Macs are invulnerable, just that while viruses and malware are technically possible, there haven't been widespread attacks, like there have been on Windows.
Symantec bought Peter Norton Computing in 1990. While the company has phased out the Peter Norton name in a number of its products, it still pays $.01 for every product sold with the Norton name on it. You have helped Peter with a tune of about 10 cents if you have used it for 10 years. I wish I could market my name like that. Its all about how a product is advertised. I could tell you to save your money and of course you would not listen to me and continue spending that $50. That's just the way life works. oldtrig
What I have right now is one user (call it Lsbcal) set up as admin and I do all my work and have all my files in that user account. Another non-admin user account is for my DW. I suppose I could (1) create another account which has admin privileges and then (2) switch my current Lsbcal user account to not have admin privileges.Yes it is a problem
Critical Control 12: Controlled Use of Administrative Privileges
There is no reason to be running as an admin unless you need to admin something. Use the "Run As" if you need to temporarily upgrade your rights. It's one of many design flaws with windows to even allow this.
Koolau, I only give advice from past experience. Like I said I have been doing computer work for 16 years so I know a little about what goes on. Save your money and download one of the free programs. I have tried them all. One year one seems better and the next the other one. My personal vote goes to Avira first and Microsoft second right now. I've just found both to be more consistent in my own experience. I would highly suggest buying the pro version of malwarebytes. I bought a person this software from newegg this week for $19.95 (lifetime version)
+1It should be against the law for the major computer companies to install the 90 day version of McAfee, Norton and a few more. Sometimes it is very hard just to remove one and that makes people just renew them. What a dirty trick.
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I believe some of the companies will agree to that if you pay them more.It should be against the law for the major computer companies to install the 90 day version of McAfee, Norton and a few more.
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Again the best tool out today is a good image program. I have a 1 terabyte backup drive , also I have my hard drive partitioned and have images on it....
Depends how it was installed. But yes, in general MS finally wised up and disabled the admin account. The reason they disabled it is most malware knows that the majority of admin accounts don't even have passwords. That creates some other issues as sometimes you need to login in as admin to work on something. For most you can use the "Run as" command to do something with administrator rights. But YOUR account may have admin rights when it was setup ( you need this for instance when you install new software).
If you run with admin rights, even if you have antivirus software, it's the same as having an alarm system but leaving your front door wide open.
I normally enable the admin account and use a good password. Create a standard user account with just normal user rights, Use that for normal everyday usage. You only need to switch to admin when installing/repairing something.
Could you just do this:In further checking I've found that I was indeed running as administrator. I set up a new standard account and now all my customized settings are gone. Also, I had previously set Chrome as my default browser and now, under the standard account, the computer acts as if Chrome has not even been downloaded and installed. Any way to copy all the user defined settings from the Admin acct to the new Std account?
Could you just do this:
1) go to the Admin account and give the Std account admin privileges, now we'll call it Admin2
2) Then go to the Admin2 and take away the admin privileges from Admin, we'll call it Std2
Now do your standard stuff in Std2. That's what I was wondering about doing in my previous post. Does this work?
And here I thought I had a guinea pig.After you, sir!