BF2 Demo + Nortan 2005 = Unauthorized access logged

The_Neon_Cowboy · Jul 16, 2005, 02:39 AM

Whats the deal with this? Getting a buch of alerts....
Anyone else seeing this in thier logs??

http://home.insightbb.com/~mwlady386/DH/Alerts.txt

dsdsdk · Jul 16, 2005, 02:45 AM

you should put Norton 200X = biip, as your title..

use Kaspersky Personal..

you've got BF2, a real ressource hogger + Norton 2005 a real ressource hogger.. do you have 2gb ram?

the deal is with Norton, not BF2 since it is not a virus but a game..

The_Neon_Cowboy · Jul 16, 2005, 02:52 AM

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Originally Posted by dsdsdk

you should put Norton 200X = biip, as your title..

use Kaspersky Personal..

you've got BF2, a real ressource hogger + Norton 2005 a real ressource hogger.. do you have 2gb ram?

the deal is with Norton, not BF2 since it is not a virus but a game..

Not get a virus alert but an alert that it's trying to acess my anti virus and firewall files.
Games can be insecure and people can acually use then as a gateway to gain acess
to your PC. I find it stange that I'm seeing this stuff in my logs but only during long
gameing sessions.

Norton AV+ uses about 60Mb of ram, No biggie! Unless you have less then 512MB
or a weak system you'll never know it's there. Kapersky is way to easy to disable
a 5 year old with a little help could probubly write a simple to script bypass/close it.
were as Norton is intreched and you can't complely unload it with one click like kapersky.

dsdsdk · Jul 16, 2005, 02:58 AM

i only do "on demand scans" of my computer.. never had a virus. using agnitum outpost as firewall.

i have 1gb ram, and i'm upgrading to 2*1gb just to run BF2 at high 4xAA 1280*1024. BF2 loads 1,4gb mem, so ~400mb will be hdd swap file. So saving 60mb of ram-load does a difference.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Jul 16, 2005, 04:03 AM

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Originally Posted by dsdsdk

i only do "on demand scans" of my computer.. never had a virus. using agnitum outpost as firewall.

i have 1gb ram, and i'm upgrading to 2*1gb just to run BF2 at high 4xAA 1280*1024. BF2 loads 1,4gb mem, so ~400mb will be hdd swap file. So saving 60mb of ram-load does a difference.

Not really most of it gets paged out to swap anyways

Stop It · Jul 16, 2005, 10:59 AM

The evil Norton strikes again, I just love how bloody vague those logs are, "Unathourised access", yes, ok, Symantec, at least tell the user what you mean, anyway, Try E-Mailing EA/DiCE tech supoort with that log, you never know they might help, hehe

Oh, just a little FYI, its just as easy for a virus/trojan to shut down Norton as it is with many other AV software, dont let the bloat make you think its actually useful.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Jul 16, 2005, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Stop It

The evil Norton strikes again, I just love how bloody vague those logs are, "Unathourised access", yes, ok, Symantec, at least tell the user what you mean, anyway, Try E-Mailing EA/DiCE tech supoort with that log, you never know they might help, hehe

Oh, just a little FYI, its just as easy for a virus/trojan to shut down Norton as it is with many other AV software, dont let the bloat make you think its actually useful.

the differeance is it takes virtually one click to disable 100% of you protection and unload everything from memory. Nortan you can disable but it's still loaded. Even handy capped it still doing stuff, logging etc... Processes you can't termanate! Many processes handling many things insted of one or two doing "everything".

Of course a trojan or a virus could take out an non updated anti virus / firewall.
But that is if it gets past heristic scanning. As for kapersky it seems like elementy
school kids could easily remotely disable it. I mean come on you should never be
able to just exit your protection or the process to be so easily killed.

As for the longs that was just a record of the "alerts" alot more is logged then
I'm displaying. Bf2 shouldn't be acessing or trying to alter NAV / NIS processes
It the only program i've seen do that. It also dosn't always happen only during
verry long gameing sessions. Ity wouldn't be the 1st time I'd herd of people
comeing in threw a game useing a flaw or security hole. Especally a buggy as
BF2 is I wouldn't put It past them.

MousePotato · Jul 17, 2005, 07:17 PM

did you install GameSpy with BF2 ?

I know Norton also dectects it as spy ware ( Adware.GameSpyArcade ) , so i'm wondering if your alerts are from this ?

Jul 16, 2005, 02:39 AM	#1
The_Neon_Cowboy HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 16,009 Rep Power: 90 System Specs	BF2 Demo + Norton 2005 = Unauthorized access logged Whats the deal with this? Getting a buch of alerts.... Anyone else seeing this in thier logs?? http://home.insightbb.com/~mwlady386/DH/Alerts.txt __________________ Last edited by The_Neon_Cowboy; Jul 16, 2005 at 02:45 AM.

Jul 16, 2005, 02:45 AM	#2
dsdsdk DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Denmark, CPH. Posts: 586 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	you should put Norton 200X = biip, as your title.. use Kaspersky Personal.. you've got BF2, a real ressource hogger + Norton 2005 a real ressource hogger.. do you have 2gb ram? the deal is with Norton, not BF2 since it is not a virus but a game.. __________________ No more Kitty!

Jul 16, 2005, 02:58 AM	#4
dsdsdk DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Denmark, CPH. Posts: 586 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	i only do "on demand scans" of my computer.. never had a virus. using agnitum outpost as firewall. i have 1gb ram, and i'm upgrading to 21gb just to run BF2 at high 4xAA 12801024. BF2 loads 1,4gb mem, so ~400mb will be hdd swap file. So saving 60mb of ram-load does a difference. __________________ No more Kitty!

Jul 16, 2005, 10:59 AM	#6
Stop It HHs' Resident Kitty Lover Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Biggleswade, UK Posts: 1,389 Rep Power: 73 System Specs	The evil Norton strikes again, I just love how bloody vague those logs are, "Unathourised access", yes, ok, Symantec, at least tell the user what you mean, anyway, Try E-Mailing EA/DiCE tech supoort with that log, you never know they might help, hehe Oh, just a little FYI, its just as easy for a virus/trojan to shut down Norton as it is with many other AV software, dont let the bloat make you think its actually useful. __________________ Sig Courtesy of Mousey

Jul 17, 2005, 07:17 PM	#8
MousePotato HardwareHeaven Lover Join Date: May 2002 Location: N.S., Canada Posts: 124 Rep Power: 60 System Specs	did you install GameSpy with BF2 ? I know Norton also dectects it as spy ware ( Adware.GameSpyArcade ) , so i'm wondering if your alerts are from this ?