Hi neozoon,

Sorry to have to say this but:

symantec:ended by getting disabled and the process is even killed after windows strats
kaspersky: keeps running but doesn't say that the file is actually a worm and file keeps getting copied
i had to kill and delete most the copies by hand on many machines
I am afraid that all that tells me is that NEITHER product did their job, which is to protect you? You ended up doing it manually?

To be perfectly honest, I doubt if any of the other products on the market would have fared much better. Research indicates that the best of them will only detect about 40% of new or well obfuscated malware

As for Norton/Symantec, I have their free security assessment tool running alongside McAfee's equivalent. McAfee detects no problems.........but Norton says that a 10+ year old space shooter game is a security risk and that I should buy Norton 360 or somesuch. It is a single user desktop game, and will only run if I deliberately launch it.............Norton does not recognise it, so it must be bad? That is tantamount to scareware to me!!!

Incidentally, were you warned that Norton had ceased to function? Didn't Windows squeal that your AV wasn't working? In a way that might not be too bad if you were warned........at least that tells you something is going on.