dolphins
Miami Dolphins
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Westville, NJ
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Re: Belarc Advisor / Missing Security Updates
Out of the mouths of lurkers. 
Thanks for that rerun of 2004.  I will check into this more tomorrow because I believe Norton 90 day trial came with this machine?
Still the Mcafee episode is eating me up inside. I am currently testing Comcast's free Mcafee Security and I'm almost sure is what caused this?
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AB
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join:2006-04-04
Leesburg, VA
| said by dolphins  :. . Thanks for that rerun of 2004. I will check into this more tomorrow because I believe Norton 90 day trial came with this machine? Still the Mcafee episode is eating me up inside. I am currently testing Comcast's free Mcafee Security and I'm almost sure is what caused this? McAfee, Symantec-- what's the difference? A turd by any other name . . . .  |
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dolphins
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| I remember the days when those 2 were top of the heap, king of the hill, "A" number one. 
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AB
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Leesburg, VA
| said by dolphins :I remember the days when those 2 were top of the heap, king of the hill, "A" number one. That's right. Things change. |
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Mele20
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Hilo, HI
| said by AB :said by dolphins :I remember the days when those 2 were top of the heap, king of the hill, "A" number one. That's right. Things change. And it all started with Symantec firing all their USA techs and moving to DRM.
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Exidor
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Brampton, ON
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said by dolphins :Thanks for that rerun of 2004. I will check into this more tomorrow because I believe Norton 90 day trial came with this machine? Here's a rerun from the summer of '06:
»Re: [POLL] Spyware Programs - 2006 Members Choice
Some would say Norton can hose your system in 90 minutes, never mind 90 days or 60 days. 
(not that I would know anything about that) |
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dolphins
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Westville, NJ | Aha!
Thanks for the rerun, my memory isn't what it used to be. |
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pudelein
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Oak Ridge, TN
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I can now confirm that one route through which capicom.dll can sneak into the system32 folder and remain there till found is via Symantec software. The copy that I had (version 2.0.0.3) was created 01/08/2004, modified 01/02/2004, last accessed 11/15/2005. I used Norton Antivirus until about August 2005. On 01/08/2004, Symantec LiveUpdate downloaded an update to LiveReg, one of the Norton components. The copy of capicom.dll was certainly delivered at that time. There could possibly have been a copy of an earlier version before that, but version 2.0.0.3 already existed in early 2003, as shown by the copy of capicom.dll that accompanied my HP printer software. I am sure there are other vectors also. Symantec should not have stored the thing in system32; it should have been in a private folder where it could be removed by an uninstaller. Just junk programming, I guess! |
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