Re: [libreoffice-users] Rel. 3.6.1 and Norton AntiVirus

Hi :)
Norton used to be completely awesome.  Everything they did was totally amazing and extremely 
useful.  Then they became corporate and serious.  

Nowadays i use AVG or something else but still when a threat is publicised as being particularly 
nasty and i suspect one of the machines i deal with might have fallen foul of it i still find 
Symantec a good place to research into it.  

One of the first jobs of a threat is to knock-out or dodge all known security so any of the big and 
famous antivirus' is likely to useless against any decent threat.  Luckily most threats are fairly 
trivial so even the big and famous antivirus programs can probably deal with it.  If it's 
non-trivial then there is always the option to nuke your Bios and reinstall your OS.  Still now 
that AVG is so famous i'm starting to consider other options.  

Regards from
Tom :)  



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From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Rel. 3.6.1 and Norton AntiVirus
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Thursday, 30 August, 2012, 2:27

On 08/29/2012 08:21 PM, Dan wrote:
> Jeff Hahn wrote:
> > When I try to upgrade from 3.6.0 to 3.6.1 the Norton AntiVirus program
> > keeps deleting the upgrade as an unsafe virus. This is the first release
> > that I have had this type of problem with. Jeff
>
>       To make sure I understand: Norton deletes the LO 3.6.1 download file?
>       Otherwise, you should not have Norton running when you install the upgrade; you should not 
> be physically connected to the Internet either.
> Disconnect from Internet, turn off anti-virus program, install LO update, turn on anti-virus 
> program. ONLY WHEN AV IS RUNNING should you reconnect to the Internet.
>
> --Dan

This is not the first time I have heard of Norton stating valid install files were viruses or other 
nasties.

I never had any good luck with Norton's AV, so I use the free version of Comodo product[s] for my 
Windows machines.  I have hooked even PC repair and selling pro's to using it.

As for not having AV running when not online, well that is not what I would tell people.  An 
anti-virus is needed if you are offline and suddenly there is a trojan or other nasty kicking in 
and doing a number.  They can be picked up and not cleaned in a few ways other than being online.  
I have my Ubuntu system picking up new things from files that I have had on my system for months 
and suddenly it detects something the AV system does not like.  If I did not have the AV system on 
24/7, then those issues might not have been picked up.  The real thing is that the AV systems 
update their data systems, mostly, after a new "nasty" has been detected.  If your system has that 
"nasty" on it before that nasty has been added to your AV data system, then you will need to have 
the other parts of the AV and security system[s] on to detect the traces of it trying to work.  SO 
do not turn your computer security off.

I have had to deal with too many systems from friends and clients where they did not have their 
security on 24/7 and kept up-to-date.  Had one system that the AV was on but not updated in over 2 
years and the guy lost a lot.



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