MaggieMae
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- Apr 3, 2009
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My sister attempted to download Adobe Flash Player 10 and received the message that she needed to disable Norton antivirus protection before Adobe would load. She's reluctant to do that, first of all because it's the first time any Adobe upgrade has required that, and second I recently installed it and was not instructed to disable my AVG antivirus protection first.
Anyone know what the story is? She's worried it's a backdoor attempt by some type of malware posing as Adobe which will gain access to her system if she temporarily removes Norton.
I tried to find something related to Adobe/Norton problems, and could only find some complaints that were posted way last summer, and nothing at all indicating this is a new virus threat.
Any help you wizards can offer would be much appreciated, other than the fact that Norton sucks, which I already know.
I'll come back later.
Thanks,
Maggie
Anyone know what the story is? She's worried it's a backdoor attempt by some type of malware posing as Adobe which will gain access to her system if she temporarily removes Norton.
I tried to find something related to Adobe/Norton problems, and could only find some complaints that were posted way last summer, and nothing at all indicating this is a new virus threat.
Any help you wizards can offer would be much appreciated, other than the fact that Norton sucks, which I already know.
I'll come back later.
Thanks,
Maggie