Why we hate Norton

[excuzzzeme]

5 hours ago

WASHINGTON - Symantec Corp.'s leading antivirus software, which protects some of the world's largest corporations and U.S. government agencies, suffers from a flaw that lets hackers seize control of computers to steal sensitive data, delete files or implant malicious programs, researchers said Thursday.

Symantec said it was investigating the issue but could not immediately corroborate the vulnerability. If confirmed, the threat to computer users would be severe because the security software is so widely used, and because no action is required by victims using the latest versions of Norton Antivirus to suffer a crippling attack over the Internet.

Symantec has boasted its antivirus products are installed on more than 200 million computers. A spokesman, Mike Bradshaw, said the company was examining the reported flaw but described it as "so new that we don't have any details."

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[elmers]

Looks like your gonna need an anti virus for your anti virus

Anyway I don't hate Norton, I just don't use it

[sweeper2]

Quote:

Originally Posted by elmers

Looks like your gonna need an anti virus for your anti virus

Anyway I don't hate Norton, I just don't use it

that's why Norton SUCKS .....

[DasShrubber]

Well I'm not supprised by this article. I've been using Norton successfully for about 8 years now. Last year a Downloader/Trojan slipped by Nortons defences and infected my computer. Along the way it disabled Norton.

When I called to get help I was informed it would be extra $$$ to fix the problem.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[batmeat]

norton utilities sucked years ago, due to the high amount of resources it required, and complete takeover of some of the simplest things you should be able to do on your computer, such as copy and move files, delete data, uninstall/install programs....not sure how it is now, but I'll stick with AVG and Network Associates.