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Symantec (Norton) details flaws in its antivirus software
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Posted on 03/30/2005 9:50:57 AM PST by holymoly
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To: USF
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posted on
03/30/2005 10:48:09 AM PST
by
USF
(I see your Jihad and raise you a Crusade ™ © ®)
To: Fresh Wind
Symantec will never get another penny of my money. They: 1. Screwed me out of about 9 months of updates for which I paid. 2. Screwed me out of a mail-in rebate. 3. Gave me no end of trouble with a certain email-borne virus. For some reason, they could not detect it until the email that carried it was added to the inbox file. Once that happened, they locked up the whole file and couldn't fix it, so all I could do was delete the file. Then my entire inbox was gone. Their support people were unable or unwilling to do anything about it. I was also diddled by Symantec when I sent in a rebate form for Norton Systemworks. I meticulously and carefully fulfilled all of the rebate requirements and sent it it. After about a month, I went online to see the status. It said that my rebate could not be found. About a month later I received a post card stating that my rebate was rejected because I did not abide by the rebate rules. Nonsense.
This rebate game has become a tiresome racket. I avoid products with mail-in rebates.
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posted on
03/30/2005 10:49:57 AM PST
by
Blennos
(hoste, opto ut seis felicior.)
To: holymoly
SmartScan is designed to scour for viruses hidden in file extensions, as well as in executable and document files. Does anyone have a clue what this means, or is this just another Dumb Journalist Alert? |
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posted on
03/30/2005 10:53:55 AM PST
by
Nick Danger
(You can stick a fork in the Mullahs -- they're done.)
To: Nick Danger
You just never know when a virus will be lurking in between the "h" and the "t" in ".html" :^/
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posted on
03/30/2005 10:57:17 AM PST
by
general_re
("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
To: Blennos
About a month later I received a post card stating that my rebate was rejected because I did not abide by the rebate rules.That's EXACTLY what they did to me.
To: Blennos
all my Microsoft court settlement rebates were rejected.
Oh well.
To: Blennos
Of course, when I reformatted my hard drive at home last week, and reinstalled NAV 2004 it restarted my subscription for another year....
To: holymoly
Symantec (Norton) = BLOATWARE...
To: holymoly
AVG is the best. I would highly recommend it over Norton or MaCafee (and I've had both.)
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posted on
03/30/2005 11:09:14 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
("Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence" - R. Kirk)
To: gura
ClamWin is OK for a back-up scanner only, since it doesn't offer full/real time system protection (unless this has been changed with the 0.83 relase)
I see no mention of full/real-time protection being added in the
0.83 release announcement.
There were some other things I personally didn't like about ClamWin. As I recall, it didn't offer the option to clean infected files (only quarantine or delete), and it didn't completely un-install on my test machine.
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posted on
03/30/2005 11:18:12 AM PST
by
holymoly
("A lot" is TWO words.)
To: Fresh Wind
I think most of the rebates are handled by a subcontractor, a firm that specializes in this sort of thing. They probably are paid on a sliding scale: the more rebates that are actually sent out, the less money this outfit gets to keep. Thus rebates are an annoying racket.
Some of electronics retailers such as Circuitcity and bestBuy have 2 or 3 three different rebates on a single item. Thus they can advertise a much lower price.
I let salesmen in the store know that I do like the rebate game
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posted on
03/30/2005 11:45:46 AM PST
by
Blennos
(hoste, opto ut seis felicior.)
To: holymoly
AVG is very good and I recommend it to students in the classes I teach. I personally prefer McAfee, but that's me. Symantic is crapware.
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posted on
03/30/2005 12:05:33 PM PST
by
RJS1950
(The rats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
To: Lady Jag
I changed to AVG and have never been happier.Me too. I really like it because it's free, simple, free, intuitive, and did I mention free?
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posted on
03/30/2005 12:13:16 PM PST
by
Terabitten
(A quick reminder to the liberals. The election in Iraq was done NOT IN YOUR NAME.)
To: Terabitten
On top of that, it works, it's free, it's reliable, quirk-free, and just plain free as well as being free.
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posted on
03/30/2005 12:26:06 PM PST
by
Lady Jag
(Honor and dignity)
To: 1L
"it picked up more viruses after I ran it following the use of AVG."
You had multiple viruses? Are you talking about spyware or something similar instead of actual viruses?
To: Fresh Wind
There was an article (Znet?) about how Symantec hasn't updated NAV's engine in years, so it really slows down the
machine, when compared to "real" companies.
What a pain in trying to disable NAV so I could test
other vendors' products.
To: Blennos
I let salesmen in the store know that I do like the rebate game Oops. I let salesmen in the store know that I do NOT like the rebate game
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posted on
03/30/2005 6:21:22 PM PST
by
Blennos
(hoste, opto ut seis felicior.)
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