Getting rid of Norton (To Twayne) LightningSand.cfd corruption
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From: JeanPaulo on 18 Feb 2010 02:08 Twayne was the most helpfull for my problem, but no one could tell me WHAT is that damned LightningSand.cfd file that kept to get corrupted after reboot. It was in the NORTON 360 directory, but only present after the error. Norton (Symantec) was no help at all, so after changing my disk and rebulding Win from scratch,Ii finally obeyed the general advice : 'Get rid of Norton' Well, I did on Feb 2, and instead used Avira Antivir. Since then, NOT ANY PROBLEMS !!! More, now the system stops in less than 1 minute (instead of 3), with no error messages, and Avira found more than 30 'dormant' virus or trojans (but not any active). Jean-Paulo
From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 18 Feb 2010 12:18 One hopes you ran the Norton Removal Tool before you installed Avira AntiVir, yes? JeanPaulo wrote: > Twayne was the most helpfull for my problem, but no one could tell me > WHAT is that damned LightningSand.cfd file that kept to get corrupted > after reboot. > > It was in the NORTON 360 directory, but only present after the error. > > Norton (Symantec) was no help at all, so after changing my disk and > rebulding Win from scratch,Ii finally obeyed the general advice : > > 'Get rid of Norton' > > Well, I did on Feb 2, and instead used Avira Antivir. > > Since then, NOT ANY PROBLEMS !!! > > More, now the system stops in less than 1 minute (instead of 3), with > no error messages, and Avira found more than 30 'dormant' virus or > trojans (but not any active). > > Jean-Paulo
From: Twayne on 18 Feb 2010 12:40 In news:eUFJB6LsKHA.4360(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl, PA Bear [MS MVP] <PABearMVP(a)gmail.com> typed: > One hopes you ran the Norton Removal Tool before you installed Avira > AntiVir, yes? > > JeanPaulo wrote: >> Twayne was the most helpfull for my problem, but no one could tell me >> WHAT is that damned LightningSand.cfd file that kept to get corrupted >> after reboot. >> >> It was in the NORTON 360 directory, but only present after the error. >> >> Norton (Symantec) was no help at all, so after changing my disk and >> rebulding Win from scratch,Ii finally obeyed the general advice : >> >> 'Get rid of Norton' >> >> Well, I did on Feb 2, and instead used Avira Antivir. >> >> Since then, NOT ANY PROBLEMS !!! >> >> More, now the system stops in less than 1 minute (instead of 3), with >> no error messages, and Avira found more than 30 'dormant' virus or >> trojans (but not any active). >> >> Jean-Paulo Avira seems to be a decent tool, but use caution: it sometimes mis-ID's "rogue" files and offers them up for deleteion. In my case it was a setup.exe file. And realize that the Norton removal tool removes ALL NOrton programs on the computer, not just one of them. So if you use Ghost, etc, you'll have to reinstall it/them. -- -- Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
From: David H. Lipman on 18 Feb 2010 17:04 From: "Twayne" <nobody(a)spamcop.net> | In news:eUFJB6LsKHA.4360(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl, | PA Bear [MS MVP] <PABearMVP(a)gmail.com> typed: >> One hopes you ran the Norton Removal Tool before you installed Avira >> AntiVir, yes? >> JeanPaulo wrote: >>> Twayne was the most helpfull for my problem, but no one could tell me >>> WHAT is that damned LightningSand.cfd file that kept to get corrupted >>> after reboot. >>> It was in the NORTON 360 directory, but only present after the error. >>> Norton (Symantec) was no help at all, so after changing my disk and >>> rebulding Win from scratch,Ii finally obeyed the general advice : >>> 'Get rid of Norton' >>> Well, I did on Feb 2, and instead used Avira Antivir. >>> Since then, NOT ANY PROBLEMS !!! >>> More, now the system stops in less than 1 minute (instead of 3), with >>> no error messages, and Avira found more than 30 'dormant' virus or >>> trojans (but not any active). >>> Jean-Paulo | Avira seems to be a decent tool, but use caution: it sometimes mis-ID's | "rogue" files and offers them up for deleteion. In my case it was a | setup.exe file. < snip > That's what a quarantine is for. If the file is falsely accused of being malicious, it can be restored from quarantine. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: JeanPaulo on 19 Feb 2010 00:02
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:18:41 -0500, "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP(a)gmail.com> wrote: >One hopes you ran the Norton Removal Tool before you installed Avira >AntiVir, yes? > That was the only positive thing that Norton support told me ! |