Spyware in Q4 Echelon?

Post by **dzjepp** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:12 am

a) false positive

b) something on your comp infected the echelon exe

c) it's the real deal

?

Post by **jagwah** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:06 am

geee,

There's only one thing scarier than that,

and thats the fact that you use a Nortons product, o_0

the mind boggles...

never mind me..., as you were...

oh...,

I'm an idiot...

Post by **Oeloe** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:02 pm

jagwah wrote:geee,

There's only one thing scarier than that,

and thats the fact that you use a Nortons product, o_0

the mind boggles...

Agreed.

It's Symantec now btw.

Post by **GODLIKE** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 6:28 pm

Symantec's stuff is good, though.. Not cheap, but good..

Post by **Essobie** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:59 pm

I got this notice here at work this morning as well. Also from Norton... so likely it's a false positive.

Post by **Hex** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:31 pm

The symantec corporate edition has been good to me. (and the hundreds of machines I've used it with) The new spyware stuff in 10 catches things that some folks really wouldn't call 'spyware'. But sometimes it provides an eyebrow raiser, at least.

Post by **Hex** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:00 am

Agreed. The consumer symantec stuff isn't nearly as efficient.

Post by **GODLIKE** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:01 pm

(All my experiences with the product have been the corp editions, too... I have it running on 1400+ PCs currently, and I'm pretty happy with it.)

Post by **Gez** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:43 am

Well I'm pretty sure I didn't put any spyware in it

.
Interestingly it only seems to be norton that decides it has spyware (for whatever reason), I think if you check for the symptoms:

eg.
Creates the following files:

* %UserDesktop%\StatWin.SeeStat - Statistics viewer.lnk
...

you should find they don't exist

.

Another interesting fact, norton throws up the same information about the EF Echelon setup.

Post by **waY2Kool** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:17 pm

dzjepp wrote:a) false positive

b) something on your comp infected the echelon exe

c) it's the real deal

?

d) duh

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:49 pm

GODLIKE wrote:Symantec's stuff is good, though.. Not cheap, but good..

norton has always been a symantec product..

Post by **Tormentius** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:54 pm

MKJ wrote:
GODLIKE wrote:Symantec's stuff is good, though.. Not cheap, but good..
norton has always been a symantec product..

They're in entirely different classes. Symantec's enterprise-grade antivirus is excellent.

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:21 pm

thats true. it can be a bit confusing

i remember having symantec norton fastfind installed on os7, 8 and 9 because sherlock was such a hog