I recently bought and downloaded the latest versions of Mercalli on to my new computer and Norton made no objection. The downloads were succesful and I've had no problems that I know of.

Richard

Should I be worried?Ouch! Maybe I should be worried. The screenshot displays my Yahoo ID. Have I ever sent you a link?

...Jerry

No, you shouldn't be worried. Flickr.com is part of Yahoo! now, and Yahoo! wants you logged in or to log into your account whenever you access any part of their system. The page merely fetched your Yahoo! cookies and displayed your username from there.

Phew! I thought the Login panel was the screen capture - my bad.

...Jerry

Norton gives a lot of false positives. They have some heuristic scanner which is far too strict. It's almost as if it reports every ZIP file with an EXE inside as a potential thread regardless if it detects a virus or not. It's really ridiculous. Personally I would never allow Norton software on one of my systems (and I get it for free from my ISP).

~jr

I dumped Norton a while ago. Too intrusive and took up ALOT of space. It was into everything.

There are plenty of free alternatives out there.

I see no reason to use norton on a video pc, it takes over your whole system. if you have to connect your editing pc to the internet, use AVG Free, i've used it for years on multiple pcs. .

I just had AVG wreak havoc on my editing machine.

In the past month my CPU started to choke, cough, sputter, and freeze up like never before.... WHY ????

Hadn't changed anything, no new software, nada~
I spent 48 hrs last weekend backing up all my files expecting that some hardware (RAID controller? ) was giving me its warning shots.

Took my machine to the repair shop and they just couldn't find anything wrong. Asked me to try and 'crash' it. Opened a V8 HDV project and set it to render.
That did it again....using 90+% computing power (quad6600) instead of the usual 50-60% when rendering. Could not open anything else including explorer, and then it just froze up and quit rendering altogether. Most often Ctrl-Alt-Del would not even shut down the machine, had to hit the OFF button to close it down, not good.

The techie mentioned that the recent AVG updates have really screwed up a lot of computers. We immediately removed the AVG and ran the same render...
VOILA' back to normal, no more freezing, no more problems like I was having. Now able to render and open other instances of V8 etc. I'm very grateful for a cheap fix this time!

I am installing "Microsoft Security Essentials" (free download) right now to replace the AVG that screwed up all kinds of things as per the techies' recommendation.

Hope that helps the next AVG 'victim' save the headaches and cost of trying to fix the mess left behind.

AVG worked great for me until this happened~

Eileen

whatever norton reports, mywot reports no problems with mercalli website.

Really, if you have a secured NAT router running with Windows firewall, and you can resist the urge to open links and attachments in emails from those you do not know, you are 99.9% safe. An occasional virus scan is one thing, but fulltime processes are a nuisance and unnecessary. Times have changed.

JMO, you understand.

Thanks for the responses.
I sent the shot to Prodad as well and they emailed back and said it happens a lot with Norton and it's safe.
I don't have enough space to have one computer just dedicated to the internet etc.
Plus I'm too lazy I did it for a while but felt it to be a pain in the ass you have to download a file and copy it to a thumb drive, then copy it to the other computer.
Too much. Norton is a resource hog though I have to admit.
Anyway thanks, and I have since downloaded and installed Mercalli V2 and it is awesome, way better than version 1 and way better than the one that comes with Vegas 10.

I stopped using AVG a long time ago. Got too heavy, I now use Avast. Very light and unobtrusive, but seems effective in catching viruses.

Dave T2