Why Norton 08 sucks balls

So, I install a legit copy of Norton 08, run a scan, and then it finds 4 things..

BUT!.

It can't remove them because of a "UNSUPPORTED FILE FORMAT"..

WTF ?

Is there a box I was meant to tick ?...

So, you find a virus but can't remove it? What the fuck use is that ?

 

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Oh and the 4 things were
Blackdoor Graybird
InfoStealer compass
InfoStealer compass
w32.forever.worm

 

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All Nortons sucked, they are/were resourcehogs...

 

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There are at least 3 decent free antivirus programs around. Avira, AVG, and Avast. Try them.

 

SUck mY BalLs! BaLL sUcKerS!

 

Norton and McAffe suck great big donkey balls. They have become so bloated now, they are almost as bad as the viruses themselves.

Try using a piece of freeware called "Combofix.exe" to get rid of those bugs that Norton couldn't.

 

It would help to know which specific file it couldn't remove.

There are a few possibilities I can think of:
It's picking up the definition file for a different malware removal program.
The virus was picked up by Windows system restore, and it's being detected there.
The virus is in some system file that can't be deleted becuase it's being used.

Things you might try:
Make sure your virus definitions are up to date.
Disable system restore (you'll lose all your restore points though, so you don't have to do it if you don't want).
Schedule a boot-time scan, or scan in safe mode.
Run a different malware utility such as malwarebytes, spybot s&d, adaware, etc
Re-enable system restore after it's clean.

 

All the files were .exe's and I could manually delete them, which have done.
Keygens etc.

What also pisses me off is the lack of a useful scan menu, I accidently set my scan to startup and system files, now I can't find a way to do a full scan...

Or maybe I'm oblivious.. But seriously, I can use a computer, whats to say someone not as literate will be able to use it ?

 

Oh, garsh! Had Norton years ago. It decided one day, after working just an hour before, to malfunction in its firewall and blocked all traffic. Program would not respond to anything, it simply showed itself as disabled. Uninstalled it, and reinstalled, to find the reinstallation in the exact same state as before.

For practically the price of the latest version of that software (it was seriously like $50 to talk to technical support from what I heard), one could talk to some "help" probably in India or somewhere, or so I was told by certain angry reviewers on Amazon. After reading loads of similar negative comments, I decided that that was it for that company's software on my computer.

And yes, Norton was a bloated dead thing which greatly contributed to the general sluggishness of that old computer. Fat and clunky, kind of like Windows in many respects.

Apparently they used to make great products when it still had Peter Norton's name, before Symantec took over his software line.

 

I used to have Norton installed like 3-4 years ago and it was the greatest. However, eventually it got "hard & heavy" so I deinstalled it and never bothered to install again. There are way better tools that are easier on the system.

 

I am not familiar with Norton interface, but I know you can most likely schedule a "Scan on Boot", which should allow Norton to access the files it finds.

Do this option.