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My Norton Anti Virus is showing the lobby of Bovada as an online attack on my computer. Has anyone had this problem recently? I play most of my ring games there and this development is starting to bum me out.
 
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Sounds like an accurate description of Bovoda to me.
 
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Yep I got the same thing. Its something like SONAR.exe I was in the middle of an overnight session and they shut down for 4 hours for maintence. Been happening since. You can still get on right?
 
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Ali > Norton (imo). What odds are they giving?
 
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Sounds like an accurate description of Bovoda to me.

haha LOL. typical norton flag legit programs. cant you guys just turn off the message? im on bodog tho some times running norton 360 6.0 myself
havent had any probs like that. is bovada diffrent?
 
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Sounds like an accurate description of Bovoda to me.

lmfao

I actually came here to make a thread, my Norton is saying it is acting suspiciously. I have found 3 sections in my firewall and have allowed them all, and while it is now getting further it will still not load all of the way.

Stupid security, does anyone have any suggestions?
 
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My Norton Anti Virus is showing the lobby of Bovada as an online attack on my computer. Has anyone had this problem recently? I play most of my ring games there and this development is starting to bum me out.
Yes,I have nortonav 2012 and I have to turn it off to open up Bovada.It dont define it as a virus,it removes it because of *suspicious activity*.So just turn norton off,to open bovada,then turn it back on after you sign in at bovada.Its fine after that...but you have to go thru this every time you start bovada..
You may have to undo nortons removal of the bovada files,which is possible...but forgot how i did it right now..but you can undo it..when you get the norton message.
 
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My Norton Anti Virus is showing the lobby of Bovada as an online attack on my computer. Has anyone had this problem recently? I play most of my ring games there and this development is starting to bum me out.
YES, mine too ... shows Lobby.Exe and removes it each time. I went in and added Bovada as approve, re-booted and still rejects Bovada. What can we do? Delete Norton altogether ?
 
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Yes,I have nortonav 2012 and I have to turn it off to open up Bovada.It dont define it as a virus,it removes it because of *suspicious activity*.So just turn norton off,to open bovada,then turn it back on after you sign in at bovada.Its fine after that...but you have to go thru this every time you start bovada..
You may have to undo nortons removal of the bovada files,which is possible...but forgot how i did it right now..but you can undo it..when you get the norton message.
How do you turn it off?
 
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Turned Norton Firewall OFF

Even with Norton turned off (and re-started computer), Norton still will not allow Bovada client to come up...what's one to do? DELETE NORTON?
 

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How do you turn it off?

My husband just showed me, right click the icon, then click to disable the auto protect.
I will miss the game today because he wants to go to lunch...
 
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From Charade in another thread:

All you have to do is "unquarantine it".

Open Norton Security Suite,
click on tasks,
select check security history, it will be listed somewhere in red.
Highlight it and on right there will be a Options link under recommended action.
Click it and select restore.
 
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thanks for the advice folks...im going to give it a try...
happy poker play all...
 
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Spent about 2 hours with Norton rep taking over my computer and now works ok after many many re-boots etc...he also brought me totally up-to-date on software and had to un-quarantine the Lobby.exe file etc.

When will next one of these be conducted? Looking forward to it if I'm eligible.
 
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From Charade in another thread:

All you have to do is "unquarantine it".

Open Norton Security Suite,
click on tasks,
select check security history, it will be listed somewhere in red.
Highlight it and on right there will be a Options link under recommended action.
Click it and select restore.

Just got back from lunch and tried this, it is spot on, thank you!
 
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You have to do that everytime the client updates unless you get the popup window SONAR warning, in which case you can also do it from there (I think).
 
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I disabled norton for 15 minutes, thinking that if I could get past the login problem, I would be okay. I am on two tables with my blinds paid and in a pot and guess what happened. Norton turned itself on and closed Bovada. The next time I disabled Norton and set it to turn back on when the computer reboots. This worked and I have played a couple of times since this way. I don't use any other sites while I am playing. I normally liked to play my music from the Google music cloud, but now I stopped. I don't know how dangerous this would be as I am playing now. How susceptible would my computer be to a hack job with Bovada as my only open program?
 
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I disabled norton for 15 minutes, thinking that if I could get past the login problem, I would be okay. I am on two tables with my blinds paid and in a pot and guess what happened. Norton turned itself on and closed Bovada. The next time I disabled Norton and set it to turn back on when the computer reboots. This worked and I have played a couple of times since this way. I don't use any other sites while I am playing. I normally liked to play my music from the Google music cloud, but now I stopped. I don't know how dangerous this would be as I am playing now. How susceptible would my computer be to a hack job with Bovada as my only open program?
In my opinion I wouldnt worry about a virus. Apparantely its new software they're implimenting bc the first time I got it Norton said something like less that 100 users have ok'ed the program. Must be new. But all you need to do is tell your norton to make an exception to the program. When you see the sonar.exe popup in the bottom right (when your trying to open Bovada), just click view details. Then under options it will either ask you to restore the program or allow it. It will fix the problem permanently. Hope it helps.
 
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I found this a bit frustrating when I downloaded but after a few tries worked out that you can disable the problem file in Norton. After you do that it should not be a problem. If they update the software you might need to go through the process again
 
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I noticed that Norton now accepts the program because the lobby.exe has been run enough by Norton users and is no longer "suspicious". Until next time it is updated. True enough.
 
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It is common for several different types of Anti-Virus programs to flag poker room software right after an upgrade/update. It does not mean the software has gotten any more dangerous.

Not sure about Norton, but generally there is an exceptions list where you can list the program so it is 'allowed' or 'trusted' (at least on McAfee)
 
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To be honest. It sounds like Bovada is snooping around where it shouldn't.

Seems like it's accessing files it isn't privy to.

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To be honest. It sounds like Bovada is snooping around where it shouldn't.

Seems like it's accessing files it isn't privy to.

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Its just a new program. I dont think bovada invented spyware. When I made it an exception (the first hour they were back up after updates) it said less than 10 users are currently using this software. Just a new program
 
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