Norton Internet Security-"U must be an Administrator to view all threat details"

[HrtOfSword]

I've got two hard drives, HDD A and HDD B.
HDD A is installed with the Windows 7 Professional OS.
HDD B is installed with the Windows XP Home OS.

What I did was I plugged both HDDs up, with HDD A as the "master" and HDD B as the "slave", and scanned HDD B using the Norton Internet Security 2010 that was installed on HDD A.
I found two viruses on my HDD B.
I could read the "Details" of the two viruses. However I could not read the "Activity" of the two viruses and got this message instead:
You must be an Administrator to view all threat details.

Is there any way for me to become the "Administrator" of the files on HDD B while still using HDD A as the master drive?

I really want to read the "Activity" section of the virus report because the file risk of those two viruses are said to be high.

[vuzedome]

Boot into XP and clean it all.

[Xiong Chiamiov]

Ugh, Norton.  That's one of the worst pieces of software I've ever encountered, at least in the domain of "serious" software.

[HrtOfSword]

Boot into XP and clean it all.

The virus has already been quarantined by norton. i doubt i need to boot into XP.
Anyway all I want to know is only how I can access the activity log of the virus..

[Meomix]

Your using norton...? Godspeed.

[xShadow]

... Norton 2009 was great. From what I've read online, Norton 2010 is even better.

I don't understand why everyone just hops on the "let's diss Norton" bandwagon just because their pre-2009 releases sucked (and they really only sucked for home use, just because they were too protective and thus draining on resources).

Either way, I seriously doubt that you not being the owner of the files could be solved by using another antivirus software. The activity report is probably meant to be hidden, under the assumption that you installed it on a computer that was used by multiple people, and those files didn't belong to you. As for how to solve that, I have no idea. Maybe try to transfer ownership (I don't know how you would do that).

I'm just slightly peeved that people wasted just wasted posts on dissing Norton in this topic (with absolutely no basis; have any of you idiots actually even used 2009? I have, and I can tell you that it's rather amazing), rather than actually helping.

[Xiong Chiamiov]

If every release of a piece of software has not only not done its job well, but lead to system instability and avoided being properly removed when using the bundled uninstaller, I tend to be skeptical of any newer releases.  It is very rare that the quality of software changes so radically, and that usually only results from a complete change in management.

[HrtOfSword]

Ugh, Norton.  That's one of the worst pieces of software I've ever encountered, at least in the domain of "serious" software.

Your using norton...? Godspeed.

If every release of a piece of software has not only not done its job well, but lead to system instability and avoided being properly removed when using the bundled uninstaller, I tend to be skeptical of any newer releases.  It is very rare that the quality of software changes so radically, and that usually only results from a complete change in management.

True, my Norton Internet Security 2004 became corrupted on its own and caused some troubles on my old computer such as system instability; some component of NIS 2004 would often encounter an error and be terminated, causing my explorer.exe to have to reload. NIS 2004 also lagged my computer many many many times because it seems to adore scanning thumbs.db, which was freaking annoying.

BUT it did block out unwanted porn ads on some bittorrent-search sites, and that was in 2008 about 3 years after my Live-Updates license expired and 3 years after I haven't had a single Live-Update date.
How did I know that Norton was the one blocking those porn ads? The moment I uninstalled Norton Internet Security 2004, the porn ads appeared on those sites to my surprise because I had been using those sites for a year or so and hadn't seen them before.

And I tried numerous other Anti-adware programs and Anti-virus (with anti-adware bundled with them) in an attempt to solve the porn-ad program, but none of them worked.
That is the reason why I believe Norton Internet Security is one of the best there is out there.

With Norton Internet Security 2009 onwards (I just bought and installed Norton Internet Security 2010; no problems so far) boasting of a fast & lightweight Smart Interface and NIS 2010 coming bundled with anti-adware, I think Norton has just reinforced its position in my choice of Firewall & Anti-Virus & Anti-Adware products.

[Xiong Chiamiov]

BUT it did block out unwanted porn ads on some bittorrent-search sites, and that was in 2008 about 3 years after my Live-Updates license expired and 3 years after I haven't had a single Live-Update date.
How did I know that Norton was the one blocking those porn ads? The moment I uninstalled Norton Internet Security 2004, the porn ads appeared on those sites to my surprise because I had been using those sites for a year or so and hadn't seen them before.

And I tried numerous other Anti-adware programs and Anti-virus (with anti-adware bundled with them) in an attempt to solve the porn-ad program, but none of them worked.
That is the reason why I believe Norton Internet Security is one of the best there is out there.

AdBlock Plus + NoScript will do wonders, and a little hosts file blocking wouldn't hurt, either.

[morrefule]

The New Norton stuff isn't as bad as the old norton stuff, but it is still NORTON...  Personally i'm a fan of Kaperski and Trend Micro.  But no Anti-Virus program is flawless...

Hey but norton is greater than AVG and Mcafee.  Not by much... But it is better

[Meomix]

BUT it did block out unwanted porn ads on some bittorrent-search sites, and that was in 2008 about 3 years after my Live-Updates license expired and 3 years after I haven't had a single Live-Update date.
How did I know that Norton was the one blocking those porn ads? The moment I uninstalled Norton Internet Security 2004, the porn ads appeared on those sites to my surprise because I had been using those sites for a year or so and hadn't seen them before.

And I tried numerous other Anti-adware programs and Anti-virus (with anti-adware bundled with them) in an attempt to solve the porn-ad program, but none of them worked.
That is the reason why I believe Norton Internet Security is one of the best there is out there.

AdBlock Plus + NoScript will do wonders, and a little hosts file blocking wouldn't hurt, either.

NoScript was caught busted red headed modifying AdBlock Plus so that Adblock did not block the ad's on NoScript's website.

Needless to say millions chose ABP Over NoScript.

[Xiong Chiamiov]

BUT it did block out unwanted porn ads on some bittorrent-search sites, and that was in 2008 about 3 years after my Live-Updates license expired and 3 years after I haven't had a single Live-Update date.
How did I know that Norton was the one blocking those porn ads? The moment I uninstalled Norton Internet Security 2004, the porn ads appeared on those sites to my surprise because I had been using those sites for a year or so and hadn't seen them before.

And I tried numerous other Anti-adware programs and Anti-virus (with anti-adware bundled with them) in an attempt to solve the porn-ad program, but none of them worked.
That is the reason why I believe Norton Internet Security is one of the best there is out there.

AdBlock Plus + NoScript will do wonders, and a little hosts file blocking wouldn't hurt, either.

NoScript was caught busted red headed modifying AdBlock Plus so that Adblock did not block the ad's on NoScript's website.

Needless to say millions chose ABP Over NoScript.

Millions is a bit of an overstatement.  It was corrected in the next release, and it only affected you if you visited NoScript's website, anyways.  While I was disappointed in NoScript's author, I saw no reason to give up a valuable addon simply for minor philosophical reasons.

[NaRu]

Norton sucks...get AVG

[wolkec]

Norton sucks...get AVG

lol what?

[NaRu]

Norton sucks...get AVG

lol what?

AVG is so much better

[vuzedome]

I find this, a good solution.

[suhaib]

Kaspersky is so far the best internet security i've ever tried ..

i've just bought the new 2010 version ( a month ago )
and i've never had a proplem with my computer since then ...

[DaggerLite]

Who pays for internet security on a personal (home) computer? ;;

I haven't used Norton in a while. It's supposed to be good, but like ZoneAlarm, it is rather overprotective the way I see it. I personally use AVG for active shield, ZoneAlarm for firewall and Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware for scanning and cleaning. I'm thinking about swapping ZoneAlarm on my next reformat, mainly because of certain compatibility issues which I'm not certain whether exist or not. It doesn't allow full port control and program update functions unless you pay for the full suite anyway. AVG misses a lot of more serious infections, but it's active shield works fine for me. Malwarebytes' is amazing currently, and I might pay to use its active shield sometime when I'm not a student any more. I'd recommend it to anyone.

I don't bother with anti spyware or registry cleaners now a days. I used AdAware before, which is great, but I found it rather useless to bother with it constantly. I'm not that paranoid. I do use tools like HijackThis to monitor activity and clean unnecessary stuff manually from the registry, though.

[rheffera]

..Norton *Twitch*