My father had some trouble with his PC recently and try as I might, I could not talk him through getting Logmein working so that I could get on and diagnose the problem. The key symptoms were lots of pop-ups demanding money for visiting porn sites that were never visited and an immense slow-down.<\/p>\n
O.K. well that’s odd as Norton Internet security is running, up-to date and should have blocked any nasties.<\/p>\n
But it didn’t.<\/p>\n
One screwdriver-themed visit from my very charitable brother-in-law, Ian and a load of bubble-wrap later and the hard disk has arrived in the post for a bit of surgery by yours truly. I plug it into a machine that is patched-up, secure and if push-comes-to-shove sacrificable to see what the problem is.<\/p>\n
Lo and behold, a nasty “generic” trojan sits smugly in c:\\windows. AVG Free spotted it straight away and killed the blighter off. Hang on. AVG FREE as in the not-paid-for anti-virus solution you can just download and use<\/em> managed to find a virus that Norton couldn’t deal with? Didn’t Dad have to pay for Norton?<\/p>\n Norton is a great security software house and I’ve used their products for years but now I am truly swayed away from pay-for Norton AV towards the free AVG solution.<\/p>\n