Serious Discussion Norton seem to become "Tears of the Era"

[mlnevese]

But they seem pretty fast to fix FPs. In the case of Emsisoft, I need to wait 24 hours compared to an hour or two as you said.

Yeap I actually commented about it earlier in the thread. Report a false positive or negative and you may expect it to be fixed in the next streaming update.

 

[paradise2013]

Do you have a new link to norton_360_online_setup-24.exe, when is the final version? where did you get this version?

 

[nickstar1]

The disk defrag was always in Norton. It’s calling the Windows built-in tool. On SSDs it just runs the trim command.

They took it out for some reason but put it back now not sure why maybe a possible bug?

 

[mlnevese]

They took it out for some reason but put it back now not sure why maybe a possible bug?

Or it's beta

 

[VAR_123]

Do you have a new link to norton_360_online_setup-24.exe, when is the final version? where did you get this version?

Download Link:

Presently it's in beta stage; I think the final version will be around year end, or when I searched their community form, someone mentioned it will release at the end of the year. I got the setup from some website (presently only limited users get beta link setup from the Norton team). Because it's in the testing phase.
I used New Norton 360 v24 for about 15 days, uninstalled, and came back to older Norton 360 v22. I will try after the final version rolls out. Let them fix the bugs.

 

[VAR_123]

Download Link:

Presently it's in beta stage; I think the final version will be around year end, or when I searched their community form, someone mentioned it will release at the end of the year. I got the setup from some website (presently only limited users get beta link setup from the Norton team). Because it's in the testing phase.
I used New Norton 360 v24 for about 15 days, uninstalled, and came back to older Norton 360 v22. I will try after the final version rolls out. Let them fix the bugs.

New Download Link [Expires in 90 Days]:

 

[Junho]

Looking at the signatures folder in my Avast Free VM which I last opened and updated in August 03 before tonight, it seems August 2 is the date when their main definition folder which contains the full signatures was updated the last time.
The name of the current version folder is, "24080204" where 24 probably means the current year, 08 is probably the current month and 02 should be the date when it was released. Not sure what 04 refers to. So, August 2, 2024.
Since then, it's been only streaming updates. If I'm not wrong, I think they usually update their main definition folder once/twice per day. When it's released, all the streaming updates on your device which has now become part of the main signatures are removed and new streaming updates for the day starts downloading.
For whatever reason, the method of combining streaming updates to the main definition hasn't happened since the 2nd of August. Maybe it's a bug that they are working on, or they have decided that it's not useful to update the whole database folder daily. The streaming updates are tiny.
This is the size at the moment of all streaming signatures combined since August 2:
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@Trident pointed out a few days ago in this or another thread that last month an Avast patent has been granted that enables them to reduce the size of their signatures. This case could be or could be not related:

Patents Assigned to AVAST SOFTWARE S.R.O. - Justia Patents Search

Justia - Patents - Patents and Patent Application Resources

patents.justia.com

Check if your Norton 24 folder has these streaming signatures files. If yes, everything should be okay.
On Avast it's located at: "C:\Program Files\Avast Software\Avast\defs"
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Also, Avast UI accurately shows current date and time for signatures:
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The new norton v24 are similar to Avast:

Stream folder for virus defs: