Norton flagging BHW

There's nothing wrong with Norton 2009 in the virus/malware department, however the firewall isn't the best (especially with outbound) your better off disabling it and using Outpost free. But anyhow..

sleepparalysis said:

I think the question is then, why the false positive? What is causing the false positive?

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It's the eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d) javascript, the toolkit alerts started popping up at the same time the 0day Directshow exploit patches were pushed out so no doubt heuristics are seeing them as similar.

Just disable the "HTTP Malicious Toolkit Variant Activity 8" detection, it's no biggie if you keep Flash, PDF etc patched.

the site was down for a day or two. But all it up and going...

NOD32 ESet Smart Security is the way to go....All trojan's and virus's are based to get through norton and mcafee along with some other anti-virus's and firewalls such as Kaspersky's and BifDefender. Just an FYI.

I'm using ESET and Malwarebytes, seems to do pretty good for me......

I was having a problem getting here at all a couple days ago, looks like about the time a number of people were..... I have at&t dsl..... apparently when I rebooted my router somehow the dns settings for opendns got lost, and it was using the default at&t dns servers, and wasn't allowing me to get to any page on this site.... soon as I poked around a bit, noticed what happened and switched dns back to opendns servers, all is well again....

fuck at&t..... disabling port 25, blocking good sites... what the hell is next?? Oh yeah, don't forget no more newsgroups..... grrr......

It is not bullshit. I used to so some work for US-CERT, several IT security companies (i used to own one till i sold it), co-lo companies, and I do have 15 years professional combined experience in all these areas I mentioned.

I was in IT for years and years, and only got into IM recently.

I am 35 years old, so yeah 15 years of IT experience is perfectly reasonable. I dont suppose you remember 2600 and Phrack and Cult of the Dead Cow. No i thought you wouldnt, your too young to remember.

Either way your comments are your own, just try not to bash what I say unless you really do know. I will do the same for you as I would for anyone else.

I am not gonna start or continue a flame war (they still call it that right?).

Anyway..not to worry.

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blackberry said:

unless you know nortons software 100% inside and you WILL break your computer.

God I love absolutes like this. Listen, I am by no means an expert on ANY software but please...don't say something WILL ABSOLUTELY happen when it won't. It makes your claim of having spent "15 years in technical support, it admin, server admin, network admin and a LOT more", sound like bullshit.

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Is there any free antivirus programs around that are recommended?