Thu Nov 15, 2012, 09:08 AM

Malwarebytes Beats Norton 360

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.

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6 replies	Author	Time	Post
Malwarebytes Beats Norton 360 (Original post)	MannyGoldstein	Nov 2012	OP
Rerun malwarebytes in safe mode and you may find more	Coyotl	Nov 2012	#1
Norton works as well as a screen door on a submarine.	hobbit709	Nov 2012	#2
I recommend Malwarebytes	aristocles	Nov 2012	#3
Thanks for the recommendation. :)	discntnt_irny_srcsm	Nov 2012	#4
No single AV system catches everything.	ManiacJoe	Nov 2012	#5
Norton does has a deep-cleaning download	krispos42	Nov 2012	#6

Response to MannyGoldstein (Original post)

Thu Nov 15, 2012, 09:14 AM

Coyotl (5,163 posts)

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.

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Response to MannyGoldstein (Original post)

Thu Nov 15, 2012, 09:53 AM

hobbit709 (26,109 posts)

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

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Response to MannyGoldstein (Original post)

Thu Nov 15, 2012, 10:11 AM

aristocles (296 posts)

3. I recommend Malwarebytes

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

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Response to aristocles (Reply #3)

Thu Nov 15, 2012, 10:15 AM

discntnt_irny_srcsm (5,684 posts)

4. Thanks for the recommendation. :)

Welcome to DU

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Response to MannyGoldstein (Original post)

Thu Nov 15, 2012, 10:24 AM

ManiacJoe (5,583 posts)

5. No single AV system catches everything.

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Response to MannyGoldstein (Original post)

Thu Nov 15, 2012, 10:52 AM

krispos42 (45,157 posts)

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.

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