I went to watch a video on youtube and before it could come up on Safari I received a pop up saying Norton Online Sevurity Scan has detected some adware/spyware that are flagged as potential security threat! Told me to visit norton.com or call a number. No one answered on the phone. HELP!
iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
Ignore such messages, they are a scam.
Norton Antivirus (made by Symantec) has a very long and illustrious reputation for mangling Mac OS X systems, sometimes to the point where a complete reinstall is necessary. Among other things, it installs kernel extensions which are known to cause kernel panics and system freezes; it contains known and documented bugs which can silently corrupt Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign files, destroy a user's ability to authenticate as an administrator, and (on PPC systems) can cause Classic to stop functioning; and Symantec has on at least two occasions now released flawed .dat file updates which erroneously report certain critical Mac OS X files as "viruses." (Deleting these "viruses" causes damage to the system that in some cases renders it unbootable.)
Norton has also been reported as damaging iPhone backups.
Norton Removal Tool (Symantec Uninstaller):
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH103489&locale =en_US
And now this, from 11 January 2012:
Lawsuit Claims Symantec "Scareware" Warns Of Fake Threats To Sell Upgrades
Ignore such messages, they are a scam.
Norton Antivirus (made by Symantec) has a very long and illustrious reputation for mangling Mac OS X systems, sometimes to the point where a complete reinstall is necessary. Among other things, it installs kernel extensions which are known to cause kernel panics and system freezes; it contains known and documented bugs which can silently corrupt Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign files, destroy a user's ability to authenticate as an administrator, and (on PPC systems) can cause Classic to stop functioning; and Symantec has on at least two occasions now released flawed .dat file updates which erroneously report certain critical Mac OS X files as "viruses." (Deleting these "viruses" causes damage to the system that in some cases renders it unbootable.)
Norton has also been reported as damaging iPhone backups.
Norton Removal Tool (Symantec Uninstaller):
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH103489&locale =en_US
And now this, from 11 January 2012:
Lawsuit Claims Symantec "Scareware" Warns Of Fake Threats To Sell Upgrades
The same thing happened on my iPad and now I can't close the page in safari or get to any other pages. I don't have Norton installed on my iPad so I can't remove it. Any ideas besides reinstalling a previous back-up?
You will get a better response if you start your own thread in the iPad forum. 🙂
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