i have both norton and windows defender installed and they both seem to find tracking cookies and advertising cookies but never any thing serious do they detect trojans
2007-07-12 08:14:39 · 9 answers · asked by stueyd3004 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Norton Internet Security, Does. I have had that same exact problem though.
I suggest no-longer using Norton. Unfortunatly, the AntiVirus, uses too many resources and slows down the computer.
I suggest you switch to AVG. AVG is Completely Free.
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1) Uninstall ALL Anti-Virus and Firewalls that you may already have. As these, will cause conflicts with the ones you will be suggested to download.
2) Download ALL of the programs above.
3) After download all the programs re-start your computer twice, ensuring that all/most of the programs start on start-up. Ad-Aware, Spybot and Anti Rootkit and A-Squared shouldn't. Make sure the firewall and AntiVirus do though.
4) Update all of the programs. You should do daily updates, and weekly scans. This will most definitly ensure your protection and your system status!
5) Re-Boot into Safe mode. To log into safe mode, "Button-Mash" (simoltaneously hit the key) F8. Then if it gives you a menu, hit "Safe-Mode".
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8) Open up, A-Squared Free Edition, Ad-Aware, Spybot, SpySweep but, NOT WINDOWS DEFENDER! Run all of these programs and use them to scan. Again, if they detect anything then delete it. If you detected something previously in the AVG Scans then Congratulations! AVG was a great choice for you.
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4) Run all the programs, but NOT O&O Defrag YET!
5) CCleaner will find some stuff and hit fix this and it will clean basic things.
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7) Run O&O Defrag. You'll see on the top top toolbar "Defragmentation" Click that, and then hit "Complete/Name" This is the most complex organazation tool and will take a long, long time! I'd reccomend doing this overnight while your sleeping!
2007-07-12 09:06:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-08-21 19:15:13 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NIS should do, provided you have the antispyware version and it is enabled. Defender may do, but it is alleged that defender misses things that other scanners detect as spyware . It's always best to have at least 2 different scanners available. Neither of these will catch all tracking cookies. For this you need Ad-Aware, Spybot, or asquared. If you are reasonably careful in what you do on the web it's possible that you will never get hit by malware, but best to be sure.
2007-07-12 22:19:15 · answer #3 · answered by The original Peter G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A trojan is a type of malware (MALicious softWARE) and Norton will check for all types on doing a full scan. Remember to update every day. Once a week or less is ineffective against new malwares which crop up every day.
2007-07-12 08:28:49 · answer #4 · answered by h12wales 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and no , when you install NIS it disbales windows defender, However if you do re enable it, it will scan, however i say that nortons is better at getting the trojans
2007-07-12 08:52:14 · answer #5 · answered by bengreenslade2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it sure will. I have norton internet security and it works great on them.
2007-07-12 09:23:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does scan for these things norton will alert you if your computer is under attack.
2007-07-12 08:18:56 · answer #7 · answered by taxed till i die,and then some. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get pest patrol by CA it gets rid of trojans
2007-07-12 10:10:24 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep
2007-07-12 08:19:21 · answer #9 · answered by Papa Dom 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes it does
2007-07-12 08:17:26 · answer #10 · answered by kiki 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋