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Originally Posted by GeoffC
Neko-chan, it is both the login prompts and the passwords.
It seems that it is something that Symantec have issued as part of the auto-updates to their security programs, following the Firefox3 release.
It doesn't only affect me....
It does also affect IE 7....
Luckily for me, and despite a Symantec advisor's warning not to, I was able to remedy by restore from my most recent login/password backup.
problem solved, for me anyway, and until the next time ....
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<sigh>
You are discussing the reasons I don't use Norton Internet Security. Too many problems.
For A/V, I use Symantec Corporate, which has never caused a problem. For firewall, I have layered defenses. There's a hardware firewall in my Linksys router, the old freeware Sygate Personal Firewall on desktop and laptop, and Windows Firewall was left enabled because it doesn't conflict with anything.
I don't use "active" anti-spyware defenses. I have Ad-Aware and Spybot Search and Destroy, run them occasionally, and never find more than tracking cookies.
My biggest security measures are three things:
1) I keep Windows fully patched, with auto updates on. (And I just got the first critical security patch for IE 8 beta 1...)
2) I
don't use Internet Explorer for regular browsing. Half of the spyware/malware/etc. out there targets IE. Don't run IE, and it bounces off.
(I have IE around for occasional testing, with carefully selected destinations.)
3) My primary email account it GMail. The other half of the nasty stuff tends to arrive as disguised attachments to email messages. GMail is wen based, and while I could have it downloaded through POP, I prefer the web interface. Attachments stay on Google's servers, and don't reach my machine unless I specifically choose to download them. I know who they are from and what they are before I do.
I've never had a problem with adware/spyware/malware, and the only stuff Symantec ever finds tends to come from newsgroups which I harvest with an automated process. (Binary newsgroups are problematic because of that.)
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Dennis