Sorinade Posted January 9, 2015 Posted January 9, 2015 Norton just decided that Mod organizer was a virus, while I was changing a mod to a newer version of itself and then proceeded to delete and quarantine it without giving me the option to say no?!? (this is a problem with AV programs as the file has just been updated so the AV has no history from other users that it can check against). Having finally found how to restore and un-quarantine it - it says that most of the files exist already and offers to replace, then it asks me where to re-store something to, but doesn't name the file... ... as if I know where a random file was before it was deleted I'll have to find out how to force it to ask me in future, but at this rate I might end up having to clean install skyrim, MO, CK, FNIS, SKSE, the ENB setup... etc... etc so many hours I might lose. I was just about to try modding?!?!? So i'm not amused. Anyone who hasn't considered that this posibility might occur to them - should consider looking at your options on your antivirus. Never occurred to me that it wouldn't ask. edit - just guessed at the location... it gave me back MO, so I guess I got the location right - but there are no profiles listed anymore. So now I have to investigate to see If I still have profiles and saves somewhere it isn't finding.
Xilyana Posted January 9, 2015 Posted January 9, 2015 Ive been using webroot a few weeks now. This guy at best buy talked about it. So far i havent had any problems with it. Anyway your not the first person to get mad at norton. Tons of gamers have complained about it. I think it hates us <.<
Sorinade Posted January 9, 2015 Author Posted January 9, 2015 It seems to work stopping risks... if it was anything but MO (with all the interlocked other programs such as FNIS) I probably wouldn't mind as a restore would solve all but the possibility of losing a couple of horus to re-installing the game and additional programs... then the time to re-install the ENB and the 250 mods I was running. It is not an appealing situation to me - going to make a cup of Tea, maybe that'll help.
Sorinade Posted January 10, 2015 Author Posted January 10, 2015 Ok... now i've had the chance to go through and check. BUGG** so it looks like Norton has given me back the original version of MO I installed - minus everything i've done in it since October I've lost all my MO profiles half the installed versions of the mods in MO are gone , and the remaining ones are probably out of date and all my save games have gone . Except the first few I created 2-3 months ago when I joined LL So, i'm back to square 3... thankfully not square 1 as I know a lot mroe about mods and such than I did then, but it's still like falling 7/8 of the ways back down a hill when you almost at the top and about to build a fort Sorry for the excessive smileys, but emotions are running high, can't believe I didn't uncheck autoremove in my anti virus program. Don't think I have a choice now, but to check I've got copies of all the more obscure mods and then clean install everything again. SOoo many hours i'm about to lose
Darkwisdom Posted January 10, 2015 Posted January 10, 2015 Don't use paid anti-viruses, even if they come with your copy of windows or were free as some sort of offer. They throw up loads of false-negatives and miss real viruses, dismissing them as legit files. I remember Mcafee had some of sort of problem where it was actually uploading viruses to find something to detect, never used MCafee, thought it was funny. Anyway, norton also uses a lot of system resources and requires lots of exceptions to be made. It's an atrocious piece of software. I use windows defender (comes with windows 8) and Malwarebytes. Never had a virus problem. Just being cautious is good enough.
Rayblue Posted January 10, 2015 Posted January 10, 2015 Those paid AVs used to be great back in the day, now they're bloatware.
gvman3670 Posted January 10, 2015 Posted January 10, 2015 I've been using MS Security Essentials and Malwarebytes. Never an issue of any sort, especially nothing like this. And MSSE isn't a friggin' resource hog either.
Sorinade Posted January 10, 2015 Author Posted January 10, 2015 Been meaning to get malwarebytes. Norton seems to work fine when i'm surfing sites of questionable morals, just seems to be set up as if the user is an idiot (like most recent windows software). If only i'd realised it wasn't going to ask... i'd have avoided this issue. I agree, Mcafee is appauling. I'm never going to own a copy of windows 8. Having had to try to fix issues on other peoples copies i've never used a less intuitive version of windows, i'll change straight to 9 or 10 rather than use it. Currently downloading a lot of mods I originally installed using MO the first time, so don't have copies on my hardrive. However Nex has decided to go down for maintenance - so although the downloads i'd setup are continuing - i've no idea when I can resume new ones again. At this rate i'll be lucky to be back up at all this weekend. Edit - Nex is back up. Back to work then.
Guest Vendayn Posted January 11, 2015 Posted January 11, 2015 I prefer AVG antivirus. It was slower and more system intensive early on...but unless its just because my PC is better than last time I used it...I don't see it using intensive resources barely at all. It also does a better job than norton, and its easier to retrieve deleted files. Norton annoyed the hell out of me by removing files without my consent/notice and it didn't even find any legit viruses to begin with...just deleted legit programs/files and ignored the real viruses. It was fail.
Sorinade Posted January 11, 2015 Author Posted January 11, 2015 Managed to locate about 80% of the mods I was using, mostly in MO backup files I didn't even know it kept (no wonder my Tb hardrive was 2/3rds full I had mods in 3-4 places). I've downloaded the rest and uninstalled Skyrim and all the add-on mods and cleaned back to do a fresh install. Learnt I should keep a copy of my MO profiles somewhere else, none of those survived the removal and restoration.
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