My Account is Back!!! YEAH!!

Oh dear, that's not good my friend. I have had both Norton and McAfee in the past and preferred the latter as Norton slowed my machine up badly. I now have Avira as recommended by some XP geek and it's been very good. In fact, I have had the upgraded version for nothing during the last 30 days but I will have to go back to the free version as I don't have money to buy it. I can't understand why we have to pay extra for all this, anyway. One would've thought that it would be all built-in...it used to in the "old days."

Oh no sulsisles, that's terrible..We had norton the first two years we had a computer..Did you just download norton or did you buy the 70 plus dollar Cd you get every year to hook up to the parent company? That is what we had, but couldn't afford it anymore, so we started using road runners CA because my neighbor said she had no problems with it and she had kids downloading limewire and stuff..but eventually our computer crashed, whether it was something we did or that CA didn't catch, I don't know. Now we have AVG and so far we are doing well and it sometimes does catch a trojan virus and took care of it for us..

Yes yes yes mylot listened to me I am so happy your account is back even though everyone is in suspense lol why I started a Discussion Ask Alice (who never turned up lol) then I was advised by another Member how to get a faster response, I did that and yes you re back I am so happy Sweetie and Welcome back Big Hugs to you I might not have had a reply from mylot but they acted and that is all that matters you are back

well guess what when i was told not to respond to gabs discussion, i didnt.so maybe im just not real stubborn glad its taken care of. gabs is the best and her gissi also

Hi sulsisels! I didn't know you before, but I am a very close friend of Gabs and she told me your predicament and I told her to keep at mylot admin until she got through to them and I am so glad it worked! I haved both McAfee and Norton only and am now listening to the other Lotters and when my "computer guy" gets back from his vacation will ask him about this other one that everyone is recommending! I know nothing about computers so I am at their mercy! I am just glad that you are back and so sorry for what has happened to you! I am always so afraid when I shop online that this is going to happen to me sooner or later too! I am sending you a friend request so don't get scared! Gabs can vouch for me!

Hello sulsisels and welcome back, Sad to read all your problems. You may have a key logger in your computer and an antivirus is not enough. Try to download and install a firewall -- the free one from CIS will work here : http://www.comodo.com/ -- to detect it ; you will have to remove the trojan key logger by hand though.

Herro sulsisels Let's see, where to start. I'm an experienced surfer, been working surf to earn for about 10years. I've experienced a lot of virus programs. from free ones to Norton. I didn't have any real problems with Norton, except reports from my friends. I had used Panda in the past and loved it. I get it through an organization I belong to. It updates automatically and so far, has stopped any threats. I've used it for approx 3yrs. There are some trojans that will come in and do the kinds of things you describe. If you had Norton and had these problems I would change programs. I had another option when my Norton expired and had a program I liked so switched. Prosperous mylotting

I've been using Norton for many years now. I use Nortons 360. Never once have I been hacked etc. Sorry about your issues. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~

I had problems with Norton and was nver able to resolve so I switched to Webroot and have a had no more problems. I would never use or recommend Norton. Hope you get everything sorted out.

Norton use to be the best one for detecting viruses. But it has lost it's ratings and lets things come through all the time. I use to count on them as they were the best, not anymore. I now use AVG which is much better.

well thats sad. thank goodness my account is still alive though for the past few months i can only count the times that i log on here. got so busy with other stuff. i hope your new account will be fine. in regard to Norton issue, haven't tried or experienced trouble with them.

First I'd like to say welcome back. Now getting to Norton. You said your email was hacked. Hackers are after a lot bigger things. They don't mess around with sending junk email. You were phished which means that some how your login information was stolen. This usually happens when someone is tricked into putting their login information into a false login form that looks like it comes from a legitimate site. Norton does have anti phishing protection. As long as you have it turned on and keep it updated it should work. They can't always catch every thing though and its up to us to look at the address bar to make sure that what we are logging into is the official login page for whatever site we are using. Norton has been alright for me so far. Its blocked a lot of attack attempts on my computer. Downside is its a damned memory hog. You couldn't pay me to use McAfee again. We had so much trouble with that one I felt like it was more of a virus than antivirus.

WOW ! It really does happen................I too lost a computer due to Norton tho a long time ago. I was using AVG but started using McAfee too in this new puter. I like it too. I WILL NEVER, EVER USE NORTON AGAIN ! That should answer that question ! God bless and hugs, quita

congrats man u got ur account back and that's a good thing and beware of it next time ur account cant be hacked enjoy eaRNING IN MY LOT ENJOY TALKING WITH PEOPLE

Well, now we know what all the suspense was about with Gabs..she's so funny! Glad to see you're up and running again. It's just horrible when stuff like this happens because you feel so helpless while the perpetrator sits back and laughs. It's disgusting to me and I wish some day that we could reverse the situation and send those virus's back to them. I used Norton for many years up until about 2 years ago. I had nothing but trouble with my computer and couldn't figure out what to do and Norton didn't find anything. Then finally, after doing much research, I ended up finding "Malwarebytes" which controls Malware and Spyware on your computer. It was a free download, and within seconds found the Vundo H Trojan right smack inside my registry, and quarantined it. That is a nasty trojan and very hard to get rid of. Norton found absolutely nothing during this time. So, I dumped Norton and took the loss on money, kept the Malwarebytes, and have had no problems since. You can also buy Malwarebytes and it will scan all day long for you just like any virus or spyware program. The free download (can't afford to pay for it right now as I'm out of work, but would in a second if I could) that I have right now I have to manually scan myself because it's free, but I love it! It can ALSO work besides a virus control such as McAfee as double protection with no effects on the computer. Glad your back and safe and sound!!