Malwarebytes Beats Norton 360

[MannyGoldstein]

We installed Norton 360 2012 in three home computers. I had to uninstall from one because it kept crashing and requiring a reboot for protection.

The really interesting thing is that my son's laptop, with Norton 360, has been running very slowly lately. I was about to buy a new hard drive and re-install Windows 7, but as a last-ditch effort I ran Malwarebytes just in case it caught malware that Norton missed. Malwarebytes found and removed a bunch of stuff, including several Trojans. I'm really surprised that Norton 360 had not gotten these.

The computer's running like a champ now.

[Coyotl]

1. Rerun malwarebytes in safe mode and you may find more

and be sure to delete the startup files so the malware that slips by cannot reconstitute on startup.

[hobbit709]

2. Norton works as well as a screen door on a submarine.

[aristocles]

3. I recommend Malwarebytes

40-year IT professional here. (Yeah, that's right, 40 years...first machine was an IBM 370/148...assembly language)

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

4. Thanks for the recommendation. :)

Welcome to DU

[ManiacJoe]

5. No single AV system catches everything.

[krispos42]

6. Norton does has a deep-cleaning download

I think it's called "CureIt" or something like that.

anyway, you download it and run it, then reboot. It loads CureIt at startup and does a scan before the OS boots.


It's found stuff for me that the regular scan missed.