Norton Antivirus software came with my computer.
The day my subscription to online updates ran out..it began interupting me online repeatly with annoying reminders that my antivirus software was out of date and I needed "purchase" updates.
I ignored these "reminders", and closed them everytime they appeared.
Within a few weeks these Norton "reminders" turned into warnings, in shocking red colors telling me my computer wasn't properly protected and I needed to purchase Norton updates!
I ignored them..though I was getting irritated and considered deleting all Norton software from my computer.
But I didn't.
Before long the Norton program started producing these pop-up alarms...telling me that it had detected files infected with viruses on my computer but wasn't able to neutralize them because my Norton Antivirus program was not up to date.
I found this pretty amazing since the entire time my Norton Antivirus program was paid for and up to date...it didn't find a single infected file on my computer.
So I located and checked out the files that Norton was warning me about...and I found they contained no virus..in fact... contained no data at all. Nothing. They were always empty files.
I simply deleted these files Norton said it couldn't handle...pretty easy ...OK?
I had this happen a few times, and am convinced that the Norton Antivirus program generated these files and claimed they were infected in order to scare me into purchasing updates it claimed I needed to handle this "virus"...since I didn't respond to it's initial sales pitch.
I considered reporting them for deceptive business practices.
Anybody else have this experience with Norton?