Internet Security Breach

[cedric_winfrey1]

Hey guys, is anyone else having a tremendous amount of security alerts, through Norton, that there has been an intrusion into your system?

[dadyrghluv69]

Dont use norton. Its a resource ♥♥♥♥♥. But no i havent yet. Stop watching porn lol

[Master Queef]

Originally posted by dadyrghluv69:

Dont use norton. Its a resource ♥♥♥♥♥. But no i havent yet. Stop watching porn lol

[Silky Rough]

Is that the full version of Nortons... or the trial version (usually installed on new computers) that says you have a breach and should upgrade immediately? :)

It is wise to heed the warnings at least and test with a different security suite to help eliminate any false positives - and identify any *actual* risks. I personally use AVG to protect our network... anything BUT Nortons.

[Messy]

NOrton.

[Nite69]

I use MSE on windows 7, works fine

combine that with adblock in Chrome or Firefox and your good to go

[dadyrghluv69]

Its good at what it does, but a little bit too good and will.actually lock youout of your own computer network. Dont use it. Macafee is good and light, AVG, webroot, etc

[Nite69]

Originally posted by dadyrghluv69:

Its good at what it does, but a little bit too good and will.actually lock youout of your own computer network. Dont use it. Macafee is good and light, AVG, webroot, etc

AVG is a resource hogg too and always gave false positives, its what I had before I switched to MSE

[Silky Rough]

Originally posted by =EGC= _Nite_:

Originally posted by dadyrghluv69:

Its good at what it does, but a little bit too good and will.actually lock youout of your own computer network. Dont use it. Macafee is good and light, AVG, webroot, etc

AVG is a resource hogg too and always gave false positives, its what I had before I switched to MSE

Without wanting to start a "this is the best AVG" war, I've been using AVG for close on 10 years and have the enterprise edition running on 5 systems, not including mobile phone protection.

Never had a false positive.... or virus.... or malware that lasted more than 30 seconds.

[fatfluffycat]

I haven't ran a anti-virus for 6 years and never had a problem. I tried Avast a few years ago and it deleted all my steam and origin games (and other programs) during the setup, automatically...

[baddoggs]

I use E-Set, i have found it to be the least intrusive toward games.
It still provides exellent protection too. Norton is .. well... rubbish.
Notrons is well known to be gamer hostile.

[Befitzero]

Originally posted by Silky Rough:

Originally posted by =EGC= _Nite_:

AVG is a resource hogg too and always gave false positives, its what I had before I switched to MSE

Without wanting to start a "this is the best AVG" war, I've been using AVG for close on 10 years and have the enterprise edition running on 5 systems, not including mobile phone protection.

Never had a false positive.... or virus.... or malware that lasted more than 30 seconds.

I use to be a fan of AVG but its gotten bloated over the years. As far as security goes Bitdefender and Avira have been the highest rated AV/ malware protection by all the indenpendant labs. Bitdefender offers a free version but its dose not have Ransomeware protection or some of the other features the paid version has.

[MarkJohnson]

In my experience, they all can only do a limited amount of protection. i.e. you are not 100% safe. New stuff is created daily and they can't be detected until they are found. Best that can be done is looking for suspicious behavior. This is why Norton's gets such a bad rap for being a resource hog. But Norton's is very good. Most ISPs offer it for free with your internet service. I know Comcast gives away basically the full version to their customers. AT&T gives away a basic version for free, not sure if they still do or not. I think it was A/V only iirc.

As for the free Micrsoft Security Essential (MSE), it is just a scanner. It does not run live to protect you. You run it when things go bad. The MS firewall and Defender will help you but even Microsoft says to not use it and buy a real A/V solution.

That being said I use paid-for version of MalwareByte's Anti-Malware (MBAM) with Windows security. MBAM is pretty good at live protection, and if it finds something, then I run MSE.

It's not 100%, but none of them are. The difference between them is minuscule on who is the best. And the best aren't the best for all types of malware.

But if you are infected and your current solution is not finding a cure, I recommend a A/V website forum that offers free services to track down your problems. I use Avast forums. They will help you even if you don't use or own Avast solutions.

Read the main sticky post, "Logs to assist in cleaning malware" and do what they want and post your log files there. They will diagnose the log files and manually walk you through manually cleaning it yourself. 100 times better than any software solution you can buy.

https://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=4.0

[Nite69]

^^^ your wrong on MSE it is a live scanner

http://i.imgur.com/bAHo57e.png

[barrygreybeard]

MSE equivalent on Windows 10 is Windows Defender, works well. You can have it run a periodic scan even if you have another AV suite installed, I use Avast plus WD and Malwarebytes for secondary checks. No problems.

[Mansen]

None of the free solutions are particularly good. Especially Norton, AVG and Avast are notorious for giving off false posities constantly, and generally being a nuisance to gaming.

As for the intrusions... I'll bet it is just the Steam client looking up updates for your games and mods on a regular basis.