Never had this until the last ED update. What to do?
Norton Data Protector warning about Elite exe
- Thread starter Frankymole
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Wait until Norton updates its database to stop a false positive?
Or just remove the exclusion and play...
Uninstall Norton DP.
Do I want to add ED as an exclusion? Excluded from what?
From your screenshot: You were given the option to remove the target from exclusion, which should stop the false positive.
I stopped using the "one size fits all" protection aplications years ago, being more trouble than the protection they offered, in the main.
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Yeah ED should not need to lock that file, only read it. I would report that to ED support using the direct form so they can address it in .08.
Hmm, but I got the same blockage/alert BEFORE I added it as an exclusion? Seems to make no difference.
Another one that cropped up a couple of times seems to be an ED/Frontier file to do with the crash reporter (even though I had no crash) on elegantly exiting the game.
Norton was never good. 20-ish years ago, I was playing an online game and it just decided to restart my pc without asking for my input. For a weekly update. And then it took 27 minutes to scan my (admittedly very slow) harddrive before it allowed me to use my pc again.
As this wasn't the first time that had happened, I cancelled my subscription and tried to uninstall the app (we called them programs back then.) - only to be denied access.
...So I re-partitioned my system drive, reformatted it, and installed a new OS. And swapped to a free alternative to Norton. These days, Microsoft Defender is really all you need.
As this wasn't the first time that had happened, I cancelled my subscription and tried to uninstall the app (we called them programs back then.) - only to be denied access.
...So I re-partitioned my system drive, reformatted it, and installed a new OS. And swapped to a free alternative to Norton. These days, Microsoft Defender is really all you need.
Consumer-level third-party security software might have actually been useful in the past (no idea about Norton specifically), but not today. Now it's a racket.
These days it's better to keep Windows Defender active and to practise good cybersecurity habits; e.g. using an adblocker, not browsing or downloading from dodgy websites, being wary of spam texts and emails, and so on.
These days it's better to keep Windows Defender active and to practise good cybersecurity habits; e.g. using an adblocker, not browsing or downloading from dodgy websites, being wary of spam texts and emails, and so on.
It always was.
Windows Defender for general protection. Periodically run Malwarebytes for extra checks (although that's not as good as it used to be.... we need a new one that works as good as Malwarebytes used to).