My Norton asked me if I wanted to allow PIFTS.exe this morning at around 7:00 CMT, and I had no idea what it was! Processlibrary.com turned no results, Norton's Forums were all being deleted, and links on common search engines brought me to malicious sites (so I'm pretty sure my PC is infected now ).

What I do know is that I have been following this thread for nearly 4 hours, and it seems Norton is either up to some shady business, or they made a huge mistake within their most recent update and are handling the affair with terrible presence and effiency. Now, I can see why they would delete all of the spamming threads (because spam takes up a gigantic partition of bandwidth), but what I find interesting is that Norton deleted the initial threads simply asking what PIFTS.exe is (most spamming threads, however, resulted in sheer frustration at Norton's response to these questions); seems very very shady to me, but who knows?

If anyone has any more information, please post!!!

Edit: Spelling Error

[edit on 10-3-2009 by yetijones]

[edit on 3/10/2009 by yetijones]

The site is up and all post regarding PIFTS have been removed.

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It is not 4chan's fault.
Actually ebaumsworld did it.
Moreover you think it's really trolling?
I doubt it honestly. Why would norton's mod delete posts than?
And why no offical statement has been given so far?

Before the Symantec forum went down to remove the pile of Anon postings, there was a serious and polite thread on there asking if Norton was able to detect or remove the goverment keylogger mentioned earlier in this thread. That got deleted too, despite having no mention of Pifts (or mudkips).

Hey guys,

I want to get some more info on those ip adresses that PIFTS send it's info too.
But i can only find 2 out 3 ip adresses. What's the third one?

so far i have:
67.134.208.160:80
207.46.248.249:80

I am a computer illiterate. I use Norman Antivirus and Iolo System Mechanic. As I understand this issue, it appears to be a Symantec problem, only.
Quick enlightenment, anyone?

IMO

Norton's, McAfee's, or any large commercial anti-virus is worthless.


Avast

Super Anti-spyware

They are free, trusted and really good.


I gave up on Nortons 12 years ago.

Originally posted by kokoszka
It is not 4chan's fault.
Actually ebaumsworld did it.
Moreover you think it's really trolling?
I doubt it honestly. Why would norton's mod delete posts than?
And why no offical statement has been given so far?

the problem was that they deleted the first thread related to this subject .... if they didnt had, and if they had answered ... we wouldnt been discussing it right now

All good noobs use Norton to begin with.
I remember back in the day I actually paid for it once
Then eventually most people realize it uses half your computer as one of symantecs personal pc's, and detects the same stuff as other free AV's.
And is loaded up with opinion orientated false positives.
Basically if symantec doesn't like someone, its a security threat

[edit on 10-3-2009 by CaptainCaveMan]

Some of you who are saying that it is just a huge troll are forgetting something important: Symantec is actively erasing posts about PIFTS.exe on their forums. This is a fact.

It doesn't matter whether they were actually in on something or not. Hell, even if some troll just made a random exe file and then said "ZOMG IT WAS INSTALLED BY NORTON!!!!!", Symantec failed moment they started deleting posts. Trying to censor any kind of information is the one single thing you must never ever do online, the only cardinal sin on the internet. Censorship online will ALWAYS backfire.

I hope Norton loses lots and lots of business over this, whether there is any truth to it or not.

Everyone keep spreading this story.