Nortan Anti Virus Question!?

Question

My Nortan has popped up and said an attack was recently blocked from your computer. It has the name of the virus and everything and it's a high risk but it says it's blocked. Should I remove it? what does this mean?
2. and everytime I do a full scan on my computer it always finds tracking cookies. Whats up?

Answer 1

Honey, tracking cookies are just little parts of websites left on your computer everytime you visit them, if you don't clean it than that is when they could harm your computer, because it will run slower. What you should do is delete your cookies and temporary internet files every 2 weeks or so. If you tell me the type of windows you are running I will tell you how to clean it all. About Norton, it is what it says that your computer is protected and an intrusion had been blocked. As far as I know you don't need to delete anything, all you need to do is be thankful that you have virus protection in your computer.
Hope that helps and tell me what kinda windows you are running on and I will help you!!! Ir you could call your internet provider and ask how to delete your TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES and your COOKIES, call your internet provider!!! Hun, would you all please answer my Q? Thanks much
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Answer 2

Ok, well, first of all...COOKIES ARE NOT BAD!

Cookies are just information about the website you visited. Websites put a cookie on their website, usually for statistics about what you visited, and how many people visited that website that day. (Usually, people want cookies removed if their uncomftorble with being 'tracked', or they dont want other people using that computer to see what they were looking at)

Anyways, i dont think you have to worry about that virus being blocked. Your anti-Virus always takes care of every virus it finds by deleting or quarantining it :D

Plus, that bubble popped up for the first time for me a few weeks ago, but i never saw it again, and my computer still works fine.

Answer 3

Remove it, yes. Norton just "quarantined" it (kept the file, but made it unexecutable). Tracking cookies can be any number of things, good or bad. Some harmless things might be, for example, Yahoo! letting you "stay signed on for a few days"... or your favorite website using a cookie as a way of keeping tabs on the last time you used the website. Some harmful ways might be the same sorts of things, if you're not aware of them, like the last time you used the website, or the number of times you hit up a certain page in the website...or like that. You could disable cookies, if you want - it's an option in your browser - or you could go in, on Options, and purge all your cookies, whenever you want.

(IMHO...Norton? Pthpthpth...Who needs it? Get AVG! But I won't go there...)

Answer 4

Temporarily disabling System Restore will erase a lot of hidden malware. To disable it, RIGHT-click on "My Computer." Select "Properties" then under the 'System Restore' tab, check 'Turn off system restore' IF not already checked. ONLINE scanners are also needed. Kaspersky & Bitdefender's are free and have nearly 100% detection.
First, use Kaspersky's. (FYI: ALL these scans require you to agree to a EULA and install an activex control so agree to them.)

*NOTE: Some scanners ONLY work with IE or may not fully remove malware. They may also take a LONG time depending on your computer's size, infection, bandwith, etc.

http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner

Then scan with:
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html


There are MANY other good online scanners which you may choose to also use (which will take longer but ensure safety):

http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm

http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/ax/

http://www.ewido.net/en/onlinescan/

http://www.ca.com/us/securityadvisor/pest/scan.aspx

http://www.ca.com/us/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx

http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/solutions/activescan/

http://www.housecall.trendmicro.com/

http://www.eset.com/onlinescan/

http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols.shtml

http://www.spywareinfo.com/xscan.php

http://www.spywareguide.com/onlinescan.php


After using these, it's ESSENTIAL to install antispyware/virus. Do NOT use more than 1 antiVIRUS or firewall as they will conflict. 1-3 antispywares are fine.

The best things in life are FREE, and great free software can be found @:

Superantispyware.com
lavasoft.com
emsisoft.com
safer-networking.org
javacoolsoftware.com
free-av.com
siteadvisor.com
phoenixlabs.org
zonealarm.com
comodo.com
iobit.com
Eusing.com
ccleaner.com


Now if you can afford it, the best software to BUY are:

Spy Sweeper
Security Task Manager
Norton Internet Security
Kaspersky
Bitdefender
F-secure
Linkscanner
Advanced Uninstaller

If there's ever ONE file you suspect is infected, you can try some single file scanners which use MULTIPLE engines to scan ONE file.
They are @ virusscan.jotti.org or virustotal.com

If you're PC is squeaky clean, re-enable system restore.
Just RIGHT-click on "My Computer." Select "Properties" then under the 'System Restore' tab, UN-check "Turn off system restore."

*Another thing to consider is using another browser besides Internet Explorer. It has a lot of security holes,
making it less safe. I prefer Firefox from mozilla.org.
It's easy to use, FAST, and has a lot of neat little add-ons you can toy around with.*

Keep your software UPDATED! USE Windows Updates to patch security holes and use the 'optimizing' tools I've reccomended to optimize you system. Please email me any/all websites you got the infection from or if any are popping up or hijacking you.
Sometimes you may get a NEW and Unknown malware and I can submit it to be blacklisted/investigated to security companies.
Hope I was able to help. If I have, please consider returning & leaving a nice comment and
"Best Answer" to whomever you thinks deserves it...

Answer 5

Yes - remove it.

Every time you go onto the internet cookies will be downloaded. To be on the safe side remove all tracking cookies as well.

The good news is that it sounds like your system is well protected with Norton.

wdw

Answer 6

If it give you the option to remove the virus, then remove it. 9 times out of 10, if its blocking the virus, then there is no threat.

Tracking cookies are pieces of data that map your browsing habits, mainly used for advertising and all that crap. Get rid of them.

Hope this helps.

Answer 7

yes remove it,the tracking cookies are not harmful,that is just where it shows you went to a or some webb sites,that is normal,you remove them to keep your system 'clean',you will always have tracking cookies,you can remove them but they will be right back as you use your system,if you blocked a cookie then you could not go back to that site again

Answer 8

The norton popup is only a notification, you do not need to do anything. The tracking cookies will have been created by websites you have visited, you can just keep deleting them or get cookie monster which can do it automatically.

Answer 9

when nortons blocks a virus it has stopped it from getting to your computer. you can remove it if you want.
Tracking cookies are things that are put there by websites that you have visited. they do not harm your computer. it may slow down your computer so remove them if you want.

Answer 10

What an excellent question ! I would not know how to answer your query but Chris , Pearl and others have helped me understand a little more about Cookies etc. Thanks to them and also to you for putting the question.