norton antivirus - ERROR CODE 1800?

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• 1 123 // Aug 23, 2008

  norton anti virus just sucks. get something else.

• 2 dwise // Aug 23, 2008

  norton sucks get avast!!!!

• 3 Daniel A // Aug 23, 2008

  Just dump norton

  Antivirus(should only download one for each computer)
  Avira antivirus(my recommended choice)
  http://www.avira.com/en/downloads/
  Personal Review: Very good detection rates. Sometimes I can find a false positive from time to time but that’s not much of a problem. Also if you get the free version it has the annoying habait of giving a popup about paying for the software maybe two times a day. It is very good to avoid disrupting what you were doing so I give this a rating of 9/10
  AVG Antivirus Free Edition
  http://www.grisoft.com/
  Personal Review: Easy to use. Not the best detection rates but I very good product anyhow.
  Rating 7/10
  Avast! Antivirus
  http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
  Personal Review: Easy to use. It probably has better detection rates then AVG so I’ll give this a 8/10
  Sorry never tried Nod32 but I heard good things about it.
  Now lets talk about the Anti-spyware
  You can download as many as you want.
  Spybot Search and Destroy
  http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
  Great program! One of my favorites for detecting and removing spyware. A must have and it’s freeware. There isn’t even a paid version but there is a donate option. It has the option to Immunize your browsers and recovery system if you wanted to undo the removal.
  Malwarebytes Antimalware Free Edition
  It’s probably my favorite anti malware program. Good detection rates. Only used for scanning if you have the free version but great no the less.
  http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
  Malwarebytes RogueRemover Free
  http://www.malwarebytes.org/rogueremover.php
  Detects for rogue software such has winfixer or spysheriff and deletes it. Just to let you know if you see a popup of rogue software suggesting you have “viruses” You should immedility disconnect your internet(to be on the safe side) and press ALT F4. Also please PLEASE don’t click on either X,ok, or cancel because it will install anyway.
  Superantispyware
  A good scanning tool whats more there to say?
  http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html
  It does sound like rogue software which is kinda annoying but trust me it’s safe.
  Adaware Free
  http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-2008/3000-8022_4-10045910.html?part=dl-ad-aware&subj=dl&tag=top5&cdlPid=10844457
  Another great tool for finding spyware

• 4 i♥u2 // Aug 23, 2008

  It is a well known fact that Norton cause Blue screen of death. BSOD

  Symantec/Norton are responsible for BSOD ( Blue Screen Of Death )
  see story
  http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9019958

  I would suggest that you get Avast Home Edition version 4,
  which is free for personal use.

  Avast is a very effective and free anti-virus program because it can do
  a boot time scan in safe mode and it will remove the entire virus on your PC.
  Even those viruses that hide inside the system restore folder.

  Windows utilize a restore utility that backs up selected files
  automatically to the System volume information /System Restore folder.
  This means that an infected file could be stored there as a backup file,
  and most anti-virus programs will be unable to delete these files. You
  must disable the System Restore Utility to remove the infected files
  from the folder if you use another brand of anti-virus. However, you do
  not need to do so if you use Avast to do a boot up scan in safe mode.

  Avast Anti-virus installation
  http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

  How to configure Avast ?
  http://www.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/soe/antivirus/avast4home.pdf

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