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- kilometer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+80it also happens to be the submitter's first day on digg, first story submitted to digg, first story dugg on digg and has the same user name as the blog's name. also first (and only) post on the user's blog. i call publicity stunt.
- xcheats, on 10/12/2007, -3/+61Or... It could be that your NAV main file has been infected by a virus thus trying to disable the scanner?
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -4/+39"Norton: It's so good it knows it sucks"
- meshgiath, on 10/12/2007, -6/+39Photoshopped or not, this is a fairly accurate commentary of how great a product Norton is.
- diggingisfun, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30Sometimes I get the feeling they create viruses just so they can fix them.
- Bigbro69, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28You mean Norton is actually working and detecting high risk threats now?
- stephenwq, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29Yeah, i was going to say that.
That, or its faked. Not a proper screenshot either. - Ghozt64, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25Looks photoshopped to me. Norton is junk anyway, NOD32 (preferably) or Kaspersky is the way to go.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23You can easily tell the difference between and geeks and normal users here:
* The geek starts analysing the picture for photoshop artifacts and EXIF tags
* The normal person spots the blatent mistake in the picture. - adiman7, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24@kilometer
And still it made the front page... - segosa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Even if it wasn't possible to see any hints of photoshopping on the screenshot, the fact that virus name is "Norton Antivirus" gives it away. Why would Norton have a virus definition called "Norton Antivirus"? They're not that stupid.
- xxNIRVANAxx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15@kilometer:
As well as being a obvious photoshopped file, look at the file name :P :
"Untitled-1 copy.3.jpg", Now what program only lets you save non-PSD's as copies? - t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Or just that the pic is saved as a JPEG, and as such is blurry. PNG FTW!
- NoOneButMe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Looks photoshopped to me as well - look closely at the "Virus Name" part - "Norton Antivirus" seems to be faked.
The other two lines might be real, but renaming files isnt to hard - nor is placing them in /Program Files/Whatever/Location/Desired - Haroldx, on 10/12/2007, -12/+23"[...] the funniest message poped up"
What does the Pope have to do with Norton AV? - segosa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10you're a norten.
- gypsyjoe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12"the funniest message poped up:"
A Roman Catholic virus? - ismith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I would laugh if it uninstalled itself.
- BrokenBeta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Hint for Geraldo: go 1 font size up and 1 pixel to the left.
- mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@adiman7. Well, it was a _clever_ publicity stunt then
- Stalks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I hear a lot about NOD32, its like the "in-thing". I haven't tried it yet, but is it worth me moving away from Avast! to NOD32? What would I gain? .. thanks.
- chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8it's funny you say that because on BBC's Click program they were talking to people about Windows Vista's security...
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/5326654.stm
Laura Yecies of Zone Labs said: "Microsoft is certainly making it more difficult for the independent security vendors right now.
"They're essentially trying to take control of the security user interface functions.
"Fortunately we have a pretty crack team which is finding new and innovative ways to continue to provide a very important security layer to our users."
So the antivirus people are having to hack Windows so they can get close enough to protect it. Microsoft does not see it that way, though.
"The question I would ask is 'do I want third parties, other than the manufacturers of the kernel (the core code of a computer's operating system) that I'm using, making changes to that?' Because making changes, even to access controls, can have a direct impact on the reliability and integrity of the system," said Mr Lamb.
"That's really why Windows Vista's been re-architected - to protect itself from external access." - stoanhart, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I agree that it's probably a fake. There are no other details about this on the page, and the screenshot looks questionable.
- pseudojd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Either way, NAV and Mcaffee are JUNK. NOD is where it's at.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9If the quality of their AV software is anything to go by, then Norton would write pretty crappy viruses that would probably page fault before executing. There's plenty of script kiddie wannabes to write viruses for them.
- segosa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5.. is that not because of jpeg compression?
- GameCat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8"Obviously you can't screenshot a BSOD"
You could if it ran in something like vmware - Pyrogenesis, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Marked as inaccurate.
- xr56n44, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5yeah, cos it's seemingly impossible to completely uninstall otherwise
- Coreguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Norton AV is high-risk because it can not detect and kill virus which should be detected and killed.
ROFL - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4God dammit why did you submit this ***** and waste my time! This blogspam should be reported as abuse.
Buried and sent to hell where it belongs. - Wootery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If you copy the image into an image editing program and draw a line down starting at the pixel to the left of the 'N' in 'NAVW32.exe', this line cuts through the 'N' of 'None' three lines down, rather than being a pixel to the left.
Bad fake, or is Norton normally like this? - ismith, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Dude, that's called artifacts. It would be hard for anyone to replicate artifacts alone :P
- tsupersonic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Oh for God's sake, why the hell are you using NAV? It's the worst anti-virus software right now, all it does is just slow your system down.
- Neme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, a single screenshot from a banal blog is certainly going to shake my confidence.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3My clever responce to this post, which was much like the one posted above, was interupted by a BSOD.
Get off your fat, lazy ass and fix x64 Microsoft. A totally random BSOD a day simply does not cut it. - antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3C:Program Files... ???
What's the full path? What did it say in NIS' log in details? Post the infected EXE file for us to prove it. Is this screen shot not doctored? - MistaRip, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5norton is crap.. nobody should be using it anyway
get nod32
http://www.nod32.com - cfsporn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Fnally Nortan anti virus does something right!
- ePlus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Dugg because NAV sucks!
- Macuyiko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Wootery: indeed, that's what I noticed too. It's a fake, compare it with images from a google 'norton virus alert' search.
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -0/+2I am so glad I know this. Thank you all!
Pfft. I know "this is digg" and front page articles are what people vote for, but this is just silly. It could easily be a fake. I mean what kind of a virus name is "Norton AntiVirus"? Norton names them all W32.Blaster.Worm or simmilar.
Why not submit a Blue Screen of Death and we can all digg that too! (Obviously you can't screenshot a BSOD, but it would be as "funny" as this is). - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Geraldo Rivera is a douche bag. Not that that has anything to do with the story. I just had to put that out there.
- TKDWILSON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If this really happened, at least it is being honest.
Eric Wilson - VSKBadCRC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's definately fake:
Look at the fonts. Look at the first line of "Object Name . . . NAVW" - The V and W are touching, which is normal, except W has one extra pixel that goes down, you can see the difference between the "NAVW32.EXE" from the Object Name and the same file name from the "Container" name, where the ends of the letters both have two pixels side by side.
Also, the Object Name line has the 32 spaced well apart from the W, and the one from the Container line are touching.
Lastly, look at the N's. Use Windows Picture & Fax Viewer (For you Windows users, everyone use... I don't know... Gimp?) and zoom in to examine the letters closely. The 'N' from the Object Name is stretched. It has a different jagged stretch configuration than the one from the Container name. The fonts aren't even the same -- close, but not the same.
This story's getting buried; I hate Norton products as much as the next person but this is so blatently fake... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That is just Jpeg Artifacting. Now if the artifacting was incongruent between different parts of the picture, then if would be evidence of a Photoshopping.
- rubored, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ghey...
- ernesthoffmann, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh yeah... I had this once... It was a virus that infects all exe files on your machine even virus scanners. That sucks!!! Norton isn't that impressive...
- Terc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3"While I was on my emachines computer" Wow, this guy must really know what he's doing. It's a virus buddy. Take it to the local Best Buy and let them charge you $100 to do a clean install.
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