Norton anti considered freelancer exe a virus too little users

masternerdguy

Dude…norton is a piece of #$%% (There’s no nice way to say it)!

It uses more CPU time and memory than most and doesn’t even offer good protection. Not to mention how relatively expensive it is.

Try ClamAV, Avast!, AVG, anything else.

Or just use linux

Edit:

From my own experience norton messes a lot of windows updates up, especially service packs distributed over windows update. Back in vista, norton made changes that often required Vista SP1 to be installed on a fresh copy of vista.

rsabatino

i already uninstalled norton this is now coming from windows. norton is free for me comcast supplies it

rsabatino

i found the problem it was the no cd patch was causing problems. everything works fine now.

? Offline

That’s norton for you. I’ve used the no cd patch for years and i’d throw a fit if my av started doing that. That’s grounds for deletion in my book. Plenty of better, cheaper, free av’s out there. Cleanse your pc now, you know you want to.

rsabatino

its not just the anti virus that totally deleted the freelancer exe. windows 7 made me verify that the game was safe every time i tried to play it after i got rid of norton.

Chips

rsabatino wrote:
its not just the anti virus that totally deleted the freelancer exe. windows 7 made me verify that the game was safe every time i tried to play it after i got rid of norton.

Run as administrator.

rsabatino

yes i am admin plus uac has been turned off it must be a new update in windows 7 because i have been using the vanilla starter pack from down under for a whole year now. playing with it modding it this is something new.

Vesko

Even if UAC is off, you need to right-click > Run as Administrator to actually, well, run it as admin.

rsabatino

i will try that when i get home from work. actually i try it right now.
well i just tried it no joy . i am going to try my own from the order mod. ok this is what i found out the exe file from the order mod works no cd so i guess it has to do with how much editing has actually gone into the exe file.

rsabatino

ok i got home after 6:00pm down loaded another mod i worked on with the same patch and used the exe file no problems. i did back the mod up on an sd card could that have messed up the exe file i dont know.

Wicked_Witch

Maybe you can check how you define the Heuristic bloodhound.
If that is loaded to max norton is hyperactive.

rsabatino

i dont know what happened but i am going to buy a usb drive or format my sd card and clean it out

StarTrader

Ever since Peter Norton sold out, Norton has never been the same!

? Offline

Thought Norton made motorbikes?

Kronous

I suggest Comodo as a good Virus Scanner and Security System

http://comodo.com
its free and updates normally every other day.

rsabatino

i am using malwarebytes one of my affiliates and security essentials by microsoft i think it was a corrupt exe file

StarTrader

Avast here. It slows down my system but so do the others.

Next step is to get rid of all and go to Linux.

FriendlyFire

Avira. One of the few that does NOT actually slow your system down…

Except if you have an ancient single-core CPU

StarTrader

I did try it some time ago FF, but it kept popping up windows to make me buy it, so I got tired of it and replaced it.

I can’t remember if it slowed me down a lot or just a tad though.

Chips

FriendlyFire wrote:
Avira. One of the few that does NOT actually slow your system down…

Except if you have an ancient single-core CPU

Avira gets my vote, although it has now been replaced by MS Essentials on my system.

Whilst I recommend Comodo for Firewall, I do NOT recommend it’s anti virus scanner unless something miraculous happened to it. It’s firewall is undoubtedly the best free firewall (along with really annoying HIPS) - but the Anti Virus was found to be crap (basically).