Norton scared the shit out of me before I realised it was just a scummy ad.
ScummyAd is Norton’s middle name.
I’m really curious though how they propose to remove your information from those websites, unless they are the ones hosting the websites in the first place.
Malwarebytes, unlock origin, windows defender
norton is malware, get rid of that garbage asap
“We found your data on 10 hacker sites… because we gave it to them! And we’ll give it to 10 more if you don’t pay up”
There RED warnings are the worst. Oh, I need to to do a disk cleanup? Thanks for scaring the shit out of me.
Yeah Norton is the spam king - there is a YouTube video out there that shows how to put the product into “classic mode” so you can shut off all their up sell pop ups
Norton in and of itself is just another virus…
I haven’t used an antivirus software for the last 15-16 years. The only thing i needed to use 2-3 times is Malwarebytes.
haha that’s okay that info is already out there
companies like truepeoplesearch fuckin nuts how much data they have like 20 years back
This happend to my friend once he used macafee about 10 years ago the day his subscription ended it didn’t tell him and did a “autoscan” and like 200 things popped up including CP files/warnings my friends was scared to shit taking pics to prove his innocents incase cops were notified etc. Only to find d out it was a fake scan and scare tactic to get you to resub…don’t ever use Norton or macafee
Not as bad as Norton but I recently retried CCleaner and couldn’t believe how insane it’s gotten. Almost a brand new computer, had pretty much just gone to reddit and like one click to Facebook since clearing everything from Chrome, upgrade to CCleaner Pro for $15/month to clear the 5000+ trackers from my system… Maybe I haven’t stayed up to date on how cookies work but I’m gonna call BS on that, or else it seems like CCleaner is the culprit since that was the only change and suddenly they claim I have thousands of sites tracking me.
Software developer here. Windows defender is all you need. Uninstall those shitty third party “anti-virus” apps. They’ve sold you a lie.
Or if you believe that you need them, then I’m sure you also have anti-virus software installed on your phone, right?
Avast does this shit too
Antivirus are almost not needed in this time anymore. Not that there aren’t any viruses, but windows defender is a really good antivirus itself and will stop a lot of them. Combined with knowing what you are doing online and not clicking on shady links or downloading shady software also helps a lot
Always first thing when having a new computer- delete Norton/McAfee.
Honestly, you shouldn’t even be scared. It’s probably like that anyways, but Norton definitely won’t prevent that.
Mcafee did this once, but with virusses. I got a message saying that i had 28 virusses and that i needed to care of em’. And that they SO coincidentaly had a bargain of 45% off. So i checked my antivirus, nothing. Fuck off mcafee
It’s probably not wrong though.