Norton evading questions?

**Blackshear** · 10th March 2009, 17:54

Google 'Pifts.exe'
Come here.

Discuss.

On Nortons forum site, any posts mentioning pifts.exe is deleted within seconds of being posted. Norton/Symantec will not say anything about it.

Guys/Girls, what the hell is going on?
It's an undeleteable file. That's no biggie, but Norton sure is going head over heels trying to ignore this.

**Blackshear** · 10th March 2009, 17:56

Also, any threads involving this filename are deleted, and the username banned.

CONSPIRACY THEORISTS UNITE!

**Sollyboy** · 10th March 2009, 18:00

I thought Norton stop making bikes years ago , who remembers that cool rotary?

**Blackshear** · 10th March 2009, 18:01

Originally Posted by Sollyboy

I thought Norton stop making bikes years ago , who remembers that cool rotary?

There's a new rotary on the block, budday.

**The Pastor** · 10th March 2009, 18:10

i found this on the internet

"From what I understand it seems to be some kind of a virus that is linked to terrorism. If you disassemble it you can see that the IP it connects is in northern africa. A cyber attack may be imminent. Back up your data, folks"

it certainly fits the bill.

http://www.tech-linkblog.com/2009/03...piftsexe.html/

**Blackshear** · 10th March 2009, 18:14

Originally Posted by renegade master

i found this on the internet

"From what I understand it seems to be some kind of a virus that is linked to terrorism. If you disassemble it you can see that the IP it connects is in northern africa. A cyber attack may be imminent. Back up your data, folks"

it certainly fits the bill.

http://www.tech-linkblog.com/2009/03...piftsexe.html/

I'm not trying to be a tinfoilhatman, but it seems as if Nortons servers were messed around with, and a not nice man could have just slipped through...
There's a shitload of ruckus about it.

**Ixion** · 10th March 2009, 18:15

Please do not use the holy name of Norton when you are not referring to a motorcycle !

Call it Symantec.

**nallac** · 10th March 2009, 18:21

Originally Posted by Ixion

Please do not use the holy name of Norton when you are not referring to a motorcycle !

Call it Symantec.

or more simply ...crap

**Cr1MiNaL** · 10th March 2009, 18:36

Originally Posted by Ixion

Please do not use the holy name of Norton when you are not referring to a motorcycle !

Call it Symantec.

Norton is a biek??

**wbks** · 10th March 2009, 18:40

Dude... I googled the file and loaded a page and it isntantly froze the window's up and brang up a firefox message saying it had to close... Weird... Load it again and again isntantly it freezes up. WTF is up with that? Am I just being a tinfoilhatinhismothersbasement guy or is something going on here lol

**jonbuoy** · 10th March 2009, 19:12

Googling the name of an uncured virus might not be the smartest thing to do.

**The Pastor** · 10th March 2009, 19:26

yeah i first thought this was about a new norton or somthing, then i realised it was KB bike talk is not allowed

**YellowDog** · 10th March 2009, 19:32

But seriously, you need to address this sooner rather than later.

Try starting in safe mode and deleting the file.

Failing that, change the file attributes to remove the read only status use 'attrib -r' from command line.

Failing that, remove the hard drive and clean it from another computer.

Failing that I charge $85/hour.