Norton Screws Up Counter-Strike

[Thortok2000]

I use Avast, and don't disable it while I play. I haven't really noticed any problems.



I use it because it's free and automatically upgrades itself without interaction from me. It's the only one I've found that matches both categories.

[ALT+F4]

Zips wrote..

Steam hasn't updated since June 27th. Norton updated July 7th, the day that these troubles began.

Symantec AV had been humming along happily on this machine with no problems until I ran Steam last night for the first time in weeks; it updated the platform and BANG! the problem appeared.



Don't you just hate it when the facts destroy all counter-arguments?

[Linux]

Just go get avast (www.avast.com), free and works 1000 times better than anything, or AVG or STOP Sign, what ever your pick is. Norton has done this in the past with other games and products, they really need to learn some real programing and anti-virus techniiques from these other companies :)



Enjoy.



BTW if you use Norton your a Terrorist and you support terrorist actions in Counter-Strike!

[Thortok2000]

ALT+F4, to my knowledge, the problem is in Norton blocking the playing of CS:S and other steam games.



As you admitted, you haven't been playing CS:S or Steam for weeks. Therefore, the problem was there all along, it was just not important to you since you felt no need to play Steam or CS:S.



To my understanding anyway.



Norton always 'ran fine' for me. However, uninstalling it was horrible (the website actually instructed me to MANUALLY remove EVERY mention of it from the registry via regedit). It's easier to reformat the hard drive than it is to uninstall Norton software. And it sucked in terms of detection. Other virus software is simply better, on all counts. Norton is the worst in all ways except advertising.

[Zips]

ALT+F4 wrote..

Symantec AV had been humming along happily on this machine with no problems until I ran Steam last night for the first time in weeks

Duuuurrrrrrr

[ALT+F4]

Zips wrote..

Duuuurrrrrrr

This may indeed be a Norton/Symantec problem.

[DevgruSeal H.E]

Lol.



I don't care who you are. When you see a grown man utter the phrase, "Duuuurrrrrrr" you can't help but roflolmao.

[tcviper]

Symantec has released a patch now and the latest virus defs fix all this :)

[Zips]

tcviper wrote..

Symantec has released a patch now and the latest virus defs fix all this :)

Ah, glad to see that Symantec has fixed their mistakes.

[DevgruSeal H.E]

Zips wrote..

Ah, glad to see that Symantec has fixed their mistakes.

Nono, they haven't fixed all their mistakes yet.



They're still selling their product.

[Incursion]

Just to be safe, uninstall that crap program.