No one should have Norton or any other virus software on their computer. It slows down everything. Also, if you are using "safe computing" as I recommend, you would never need that type of software. I have never used it, and I have never gotten a virus or trojan since my first IBM-compatible PC back in 1989. Here are my rules:
Don't let your email program show previews of emails. That runs malicious code.
Don't click on links in emails until you check to make sure the links are to the sites claimed by the text of the link.
Don't double click on attachments from anyone. If you get an attachment that you want, save it to your desktop. Then open appropriate software and try to open the file. If it won't open, it's not the file you're looking for.
Don't go to porn sites. They are just like real life whore houses. You are likely to catch something there.
I use the Brave browser, so I can use a "private window" when I want to look at a site without logging in. I am on a lot of sites, which the browser remembers for me, but sometimes, I like to see the sites as a new user. The "private window" allows this. Also, if you really want to, you can turn off the feature that saves passwords, and you can reject all cookies.
Oh thanks!~ "If you get an attachment that you want, save it to your desktop. Then open appropriate software and try to open the file." I did not know that one.
You're welcome. I've been doing this a long time. I started learning about computers over 50 years ago and was able to buy my first simple one in 1982.
That is about the same time I got my first PC. What was it? My first was a DOS "trash" 80 HA! But I could use the DOS commands back then and it worked, with its little memory and NO overhead programs like all the stuff they stuff on us nowadays!
AND I am behind the times, I just now want to be a USER and have the hardware and software do what I want it to! and not go off on its own changing things! Is that too much to ask?!?
Like can we have DOS again instead of Windows?? I could relearn it. HA!
My first one was a Timex-Sinclair. It had the same processor as the Trash 80. I bought a machine language book from Radio Shack, and it was totally compatible with my computer. I had that little $88 toy system playing various organ sounds by creating my own waveform tables and loading them into memory. I had the 16K memory pack that would wiggle and crash the computer. I could type about a page long program before filling the memory. I did the classic bubble sort.
My second computer was a Radio Shack Color Computer. It had the gray case, but it had a better keyboard than the original Chiclet keys. I then got the next Color Computer with the off-white case. I did a lot with that one. I had subscribed to "Rainbow" and "Hot CoCo" by then and was typing in some huge programs. The biggest was a weatherfax program that allowed me to connect the computer to the headphone jack of my shortwave receiver to receive and decode weather maps and satellite photos as well as a $10,000 machine. I also found that I could put a MIDI plug on one end of a serial printer cable and connect the computer to a Yamaha keyboard. I had software that I could copy sheet music note by note into and have it play the keyboard. Just playing the keyboard by hand, I could only use one sound at a time. Using the computer, I could use four instruments simultaneously. My first big piece of music was "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies."
I still have all the computers and all the magazines (20x24 home office that I can barely walk through).
You can still download DOS from Archive.org and run it on a modern computer. There are still people writing DOS software, including browsers that will work on the current internet. WordPerfect, the best word processing software ever created, has a DOS version that is still supported by a university. I can't remember who, but I think I have it saved somewhere. They even create printer drivers for newer printers. There is an old software called GoScript which will emulate a Postscript printer driver, allowing you to print some fancy stuff using an old HP DeskJet printer. I spent many hours back in the 1990s learning and doing stuff. I had a night job, so I got home after my wife was in bed. I'd have the wee hours all to myself to play.
I can still use DOS and still have disks for various versions. I used MS-DOS at first, but switched to DR-DOS for later versions.
Google it, and you can find all the old stuff to play with again.
I'm past 70, but I still learn new stuff and play on my computer. The phone company just this past week took away my copper DSL internet and put in fiber optic. Now my printers don't work. I'll fix it soon, but I wish I didn't have to. They should just work with whatever free wi-fi is available. There's only one, as I live away from people. It took me a while to get the wi-fi back to my office again. Copper was simpler, but the fiber is faster. And they say my phone bill will go down a bit.
My husband has tears in his eyes anytime someone mentions Radio Shack. He got his HAM License at 16.
Our phone company transitioned to Fiber also and made obsolete our classic Model 200 black phone that had been in our home for 70 years! My Paternal Grandfather built our home in the 1930's and had the same landline phone number for all of that time! The phone still sits gleaming in our hallway nestled in the little phone niche that everyone's home had. We bought another phone that rings for our landline and got cheap from a called OOMA ...of course it's VOIP, the bain of my existence from my corporate working days.
We still have our number, which is the only number this house ever had. We also have the old black telephone that my wife's grandparents used. We don't have VOIP as far as I know. The tech had a hard time getting our current phone system to work with the new stuff. We have a big box screwed to the wall and another box sitting next to the TV and current phone.
We had a built-in phone shelf outside the kitchen in our previous house. When I was preparing the house for sale, I removed the phone shelf, as people don't use them any more.
Nortons is retarded. Disable all your AV stuff, never use it again. These commercial AV software companies CREATED THE VIRUSES they eliminate. Use clamAV instead its open source
Use linux not windows. Or apple. Don't use windows. Do not....use windows.
Keep your system updated normally. Don't store any private info in your browser like passwords. Use a password manager with the db on a usb stick so you have to plug it in to use the pw mgr. Use it, unplug (airgapped)
Use privacy extensions
Don't download executables
Don't run untrusted executables
Run your browser exclusively within a VMware or equivalent VM
use linux
Run open source up to date AV once in a blue moon (clamAV is open source)
Run a rootkit detector but absolutely don't freak if it finds things, there are MANY false positives like with AV
Man Norton was the death of some of my former pc’s. That program is a virus in itself. When I switch to another antivirus, Norton literally attacked it and messed up everything in my pc. Another one I just let it run out, wanted of the subscription and again, all kinds of problems afterward. I don’t even use a pc anymore. Done with them. But if I had one, I wouldn’t install anything on it. I’d let the base defender do its job and done. My sons are pretty knowleged about computers nowadays and they went the no antivirus route themselves. Which honestly with how expensive theirs was, made me kinda nervous. But they have had zero issues thus far. Although some of my problems I’m sure was because of a certain sinful act I partook in, or was chained up by. The P word. But again, antivirus wasn’t helping! lol. Thankfully my sons have Jesus, back then I didn’t. Thank you Lord for breaking those chains and saving my life.
Thanks! I haven't noticed problems created BY Norton itself, but it has gotten harder to deal with. The McAfee comes installed on my latest computers, and even when I uninstall it, it comes BACK, and keeps pestering me. Best to you and your sons, Merry Christmas fren~!
it's cookies to save your info so you don't have to log in every time
This is the correct answer.
A little off subject but I'm not sure using Norton is the best option.
Don't always trust the reviews that can be manipulated with $$...
I honestly think every website tracks me if I don’t have my VPN on.
if there's cigarette butt's in your backyard start worrying .
Keklarious top comment George! 😉😸
Some tracking is needed for a site to offer a better experience.
No one should have Norton or any other virus software on their computer. It slows down everything. Also, if you are using "safe computing" as I recommend, you would never need that type of software. I have never used it, and I have never gotten a virus or trojan since my first IBM-compatible PC back in 1989. Here are my rules:
Don't let your email program show previews of emails. That runs malicious code.
Don't click on links in emails until you check to make sure the links are to the sites claimed by the text of the link.
Don't double click on attachments from anyone. If you get an attachment that you want, save it to your desktop. Then open appropriate software and try to open the file. If it won't open, it's not the file you're looking for.
Don't go to porn sites. They are just like real life whore houses. You are likely to catch something there.
I use the Brave browser, so I can use a "private window" when I want to look at a site without logging in. I am on a lot of sites, which the browser remembers for me, but sometimes, I like to see the sites as a new user. The "private window" allows this. Also, if you really want to, you can turn off the feature that saves passwords, and you can reject all cookies.
Oh thanks!~ "If you get an attachment that you want, save it to your desktop. Then open appropriate software and try to open the file." I did not know that one.
You're welcome. I've been doing this a long time. I started learning about computers over 50 years ago and was able to buy my first simple one in 1982.
That is about the same time I got my first PC. What was it? My first was a DOS "trash" 80 HA! But I could use the DOS commands back then and it worked, with its little memory and NO overhead programs like all the stuff they stuff on us nowadays!
AND I am behind the times, I just now want to be a USER and have the hardware and software do what I want it to! and not go off on its own changing things! Is that too much to ask?!?
Like can we have DOS again instead of Windows?? I could relearn it. HA!
My first one was a Timex-Sinclair. It had the same processor as the Trash 80. I bought a machine language book from Radio Shack, and it was totally compatible with my computer. I had that little $88 toy system playing various organ sounds by creating my own waveform tables and loading them into memory. I had the 16K memory pack that would wiggle and crash the computer. I could type about a page long program before filling the memory. I did the classic bubble sort.
My second computer was a Radio Shack Color Computer. It had the gray case, but it had a better keyboard than the original Chiclet keys. I then got the next Color Computer with the off-white case. I did a lot with that one. I had subscribed to "Rainbow" and "Hot CoCo" by then and was typing in some huge programs. The biggest was a weatherfax program that allowed me to connect the computer to the headphone jack of my shortwave receiver to receive and decode weather maps and satellite photos as well as a $10,000 machine. I also found that I could put a MIDI plug on one end of a serial printer cable and connect the computer to a Yamaha keyboard. I had software that I could copy sheet music note by note into and have it play the keyboard. Just playing the keyboard by hand, I could only use one sound at a time. Using the computer, I could use four instruments simultaneously. My first big piece of music was "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies."
I still have all the computers and all the magazines (20x24 home office that I can barely walk through).
You can still download DOS from Archive.org and run it on a modern computer. There are still people writing DOS software, including browsers that will work on the current internet. WordPerfect, the best word processing software ever created, has a DOS version that is still supported by a university. I can't remember who, but I think I have it saved somewhere. They even create printer drivers for newer printers. There is an old software called GoScript which will emulate a Postscript printer driver, allowing you to print some fancy stuff using an old HP DeskJet printer. I spent many hours back in the 1990s learning and doing stuff. I had a night job, so I got home after my wife was in bed. I'd have the wee hours all to myself to play.
I can still use DOS and still have disks for various versions. I used MS-DOS at first, but switched to DR-DOS for later versions.
Google it, and you can find all the old stuff to play with again.
I'm past 70, but I still learn new stuff and play on my computer. The phone company just this past week took away my copper DSL internet and put in fiber optic. Now my printers don't work. I'll fix it soon, but I wish I didn't have to. They should just work with whatever free wi-fi is available. There's only one, as I live away from people. It took me a while to get the wi-fi back to my office again. Copper was simpler, but the fiber is faster. And they say my phone bill will go down a bit.
My husband has tears in his eyes anytime someone mentions Radio Shack. He got his HAM License at 16.
Our phone company transitioned to Fiber also and made obsolete our classic Model 200 black phone that had been in our home for 70 years! My Paternal Grandfather built our home in the 1930's and had the same landline phone number for all of that time! The phone still sits gleaming in our hallway nestled in the little phone niche that everyone's home had. We bought another phone that rings for our landline and got cheap from a called OOMA ...of course it's VOIP, the bain of my existence from my corporate working days.
We still have our number, which is the only number this house ever had. We also have the old black telephone that my wife's grandparents used. We don't have VOIP as far as I know. The tech had a hard time getting our current phone system to work with the new stuff. We have a big box screwed to the wall and another box sitting next to the TV and current phone.
We had a built-in phone shelf outside the kitchen in our previous house. When I was preparing the house for sale, I removed the phone shelf, as people don't use them any more.
I'm so happy to hear you still have your same phone number! That's a rarity!
WOW Aspie~!!
I think It’s common practice these days
"anti virus" is a grift.
Yes it is. I know an antivirus software company insider who said they had a russian dept that made the viruses
Nortons is retarded. Disable all your AV stuff, never use it again. These commercial AV software companies CREATED THE VIRUSES they eliminate. Use clamAV instead its open source
Use linux not windows. Or apple. Don't use windows. Do not....use windows.
Keep your system updated normally. Don't store any private info in your browser like passwords. Use a password manager with the db on a usb stick so you have to plug it in to use the pw mgr. Use it, unplug (airgapped)
Use privacy extensions
Don't download executables
Don't run untrusted executables
Run your browser exclusively within a VMware or equivalent VM
use linux
Run open source up to date AV once in a blue moon (clamAV is open source)
Run a rootkit detector but absolutely don't freak if it finds things, there are MANY false positives like with AV
Man Norton was the death of some of my former pc’s. That program is a virus in itself. When I switch to another antivirus, Norton literally attacked it and messed up everything in my pc. Another one I just let it run out, wanted of the subscription and again, all kinds of problems afterward. I don’t even use a pc anymore. Done with them. But if I had one, I wouldn’t install anything on it. I’d let the base defender do its job and done. My sons are pretty knowleged about computers nowadays and they went the no antivirus route themselves. Which honestly with how expensive theirs was, made me kinda nervous. But they have had zero issues thus far. Although some of my problems I’m sure was because of a certain sinful act I partook in, or was chained up by. The P word. But again, antivirus wasn’t helping! lol. Thankfully my sons have Jesus, back then I didn’t. Thank you Lord for breaking those chains and saving my life.
Thanks! I haven't noticed problems created BY Norton itself, but it has gotten harder to deal with. The McAfee comes installed on my latest computers, and even when I uninstall it, it comes BACK, and keeps pestering me. Best to you and your sons, Merry Christmas fren~!