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Norton hears a virius

Postby ABURRITO » 03 Apr 2014, 04:13

by just clicking on your downloads link on the homepage NORTON ANTI VIRIUS freaked out and told me not to even visit the page because it contains COMPUTER AIDS

P.S. im new to the site and FA, ive played supcom 1 and 2, i have a 2006 PC but it handeled a 4v4 with all of us over 500 units with out desyencing or slowing down the game so i think its fine
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Re: Norton hears a virius

Postby Xinnony » 03 Apr 2014, 04:38

Norton ? lol
Disable temporary this Anti-Virus and download FAF.

or change your Anti-Virus, "Anti-Vir" "MSE" is good.
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Re: Norton hears a virius

Postby ABURRITO » 03 Apr 2014, 05:14

Sorry I was just wondering if there was something i should know about because this is an old site I didn't know if it had been discontinued

I also figured it was probably just my norton because it wasn't always my PC it belonged to my mom but it got handed down because I needed it for college but as it turns out my mom has no idea what the words DRIVER UPDATE and ANTI VIRIUS UPDATE mean every year when she renewed her norton membership she thought buying it every year was auto-magickly updating it, so of course I face-palmed and (while removing my palm from the back of my skull) tried to repair the damage the 7 years of abuse my mother did to the Poor PC but the drivers are still from 2009 (2006 PC) and Norton shits itself on a daily basis

By the way u guys still do galactic war?
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Re: Norton hears a virius

Postby Deering » 03 Apr 2014, 12:12

Galactic war is currently in a working (but not very well) condition and is fairly quiet at the moment because of this. There are a few things zep needs to fix for it to get going properly again. However more players playing it will make it look less dead and hopefully attract even more players and maybe those fixes.
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Re: Norton hears a virius

Postby ColonelSheppard » 03 Apr 2014, 14:35

ABURRITO wrote:by just clicking on your downloads link on the homepage NORTON ANTI VIRIUS freaked out and told me not to even visit the page because it contains COMPUTER AIDS

This is why you don't use Norton in the first place.
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http://www.avira.com/de/index
http://www.zonealarm.de/security//de/home.htm
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These links can solve your problem.
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Re: Norton hears a virius

Postby E8400-CV » 03 Apr 2014, 17:20

Nothing a format C:/ won't solve. If I were to get a PC from someone else, it would be the 2nd thing I do (the first one being a basic check if the whole thing boots up properly).

In fact, I do this with notebooks as well. Brand new from the box: I turn 'm on and after five minutes it's formatting.

And Norton... yeah :lol:
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Re: Norton hears a virius

Postby ABURRITO » 04 Apr 2014, 02:29

yea i know norton sucks but im not going through the process of getting a new anti-virius bc im getting new computer soon anyway
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Re: Norton hears a virius

Postby ZaZen » 04 Apr 2014, 03:17

Have Avast and never heard a thing using this site.

Why do people pay for norton when there are equal programs for free?? Simple, the thing about Norton is the more noise it makes and the more sites it says its protecting you from the more likely you are to pay them every year.
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Re: Norton hears a virius

Postby Vicarian » 06 Apr 2014, 09:57

I don't have any trouble with Microsoft Security Essentials either - it's free, gets regular updates via Windows Update, doesn't eat a whole lot of resources while it's running, etc. Norton might just freak out because of the direct link to the MSI package on the page, or maybe a bad ad got into the rotation somehow. Not sure since I haven't seen ads on any Web site for years.
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Re: Norton hears a virius

Postby RedX » 07 Apr 2014, 02:33

You probably clicked on the big banner ad that likes to show up that says "Start Download", yes? Yeah, don't click that.
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