My opinion is that Symantec should be prosecuted under the Rico
racketeering law. The last time I had anything by them was a purchase
I made after upgrading my OS and I called them to find out whether
they were compatible. I was assured they were. I later found out that
compatibility meant that it was it had been disabled so as to not
launch and crash the computer like the previous version. Completely
nonfunctional as to the prior condition when its behavior was
indistinguishable from a really bad virus.
Now antivirus software companies are offering $10,000 prizes to
hackers who can find a security hole in Mac OSX and using the results
to sell their software never telling you that they did not notify
Apple in order to delay the fix that would make their software
unsalable. Sometimes there is a fine line between business and a
criminal enterprise.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On May 18, 2007, at 10:40 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> I well remember angrily removing Norton Antivirus from my and my
> daughter's computers. I was still finding bits and pieces 6 months
> later but I'm extremely happy I did it. It was positively infuriating
> to discover that, not only didn't their automated removal tool work,
> they knew it didn't and offered a long, long list of steps for manual
> removal on their site. It was doubly infuriating to discover that the
> manual process wasn't complete either which was the cause of
> continuing
> to find bits and pieces for a long time. That's a development process
> totally out of control.
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