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Why you should never buy Symantec / Norton products
Built a computer for my nephew a couple years ago. It was so nice at the
time, that it's still a decent gaming machine. He's living with mom's boyfriend, who was trying to be helpful. So he (mom's boyfriend) upgraded the system from (sygate personal firewall plus AVG anti-virus) to Norton Internet Security 2006. My nephew said he was having trouble connecting to the Internet after that, but I didn't know about Norton. So my nephew came over to stay with us for a few weeks, and brought the whole computer system with him. I couldn't get his computer to connect to our network at all. Plus I found some files in the startup tab that looked suspiciously like virus activity. But the system was protected by Norton, so it couldn't be virus activity, could it? Anyway, from previous experience, I know that Norton anything usually causes more problems than it attempts to fix. But I didn't want to leave the system unprotected. So I disconnected the system from the Internet temporarily. Then I installed an old (but still works great!) version of sygate personal firewall, plus the latest versions of AVG and Avast! antivirus software. So the system is still disconnected from the Internet, and I'm attempting to uninstall Norton. Norton takes forever to uninstall (several minutes). DURING THIS TIME, Avast! pops up a warning saying it's found a trojan on the hard drive. (****!) Later, Norton is still in the process of uninstalling and AVG pops up a warning that it found a virus on the hard drive. (double ****!!!) So I finally got Norton uninstalled, connected the LAN, rebooted, and confirmed that the system was connecting just fine to the Internet again. (but now protected by a hardware firewall, a software firewall, and two antivirus programs). Then I scheduled a virus scan (on boot) with Avast! On reboot, Avast! ran a complete scan and found MANY DOZENS of trojan and virus files. And how much did the helpful "mom's boyfriend" spend on that worthless Norton software? I don't want to know. -Dave |
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"Abe" wrote in message ... He should sue Symantec for defamation of character. You mean for trashing his legacy. Exactly. |
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He may have installed but never made sure it was kept up to date.
"Dave" wrote in message ink.net... Built a computer for my nephew a couple years ago. It was so nice at the time, that it's still a decent gaming machine. He's living with mom's boyfriend, who was trying to be helpful. So he (mom's boyfriend) upgraded the system from (sygate personal firewall plus AVG anti-virus) to Norton Internet Security 2006. My nephew said he was having trouble connecting to the Internet after that, but I didn't know about Norton. So my nephew came over to stay with us for a few weeks, and brought the whole computer system with him. I couldn't get his computer to connect to our network at all. Plus I found some files in the startup tab that looked suspiciously like virus activity. But the system was protected by Norton, so it couldn't be virus activity, could it? Anyway, from previous experience, I know that Norton anything usually causes more problems than it attempts to fix. But I didn't want to leave the system unprotected. So I disconnected the system from the Internet temporarily. Then I installed an old (but still works great!) version of sygate personal firewall, plus the latest versions of AVG and Avast! antivirus software. So the system is still disconnected from the Internet, and I'm attempting to uninstall Norton. Norton takes forever to uninstall (several minutes). DURING THIS TIME, Avast! pops up a warning saying it's found a trojan on the hard drive. (****!) Later, Norton is still in the process of uninstalling and AVG pops up a warning that it found a virus on the hard drive. (double ****!!!) So I finally got Norton uninstalled, connected the LAN, rebooted, and confirmed that the system was connecting just fine to the Internet again. (but now protected by a hardware firewall, a software firewall, and two antivirus programs). Then I scheduled a virus scan (on boot) with Avast! On reboot, Avast! ran a complete scan and found MANY DOZENS of trojan and virus files. And how much did the helpful "mom's boyfriend" spend on that worthless Norton software? I don't want to know. -Dave |
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I've been using Symantec products for years and have never had a problem.
For a short time, 'cause I was broke, I tried AVG and it worked okay, but I went back to Norton when I built my new PC. 'Guess it's kind of like cars, you have a bad experience with a Ford and you never buy one again! |
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Nice story but if you have a list of viruses that AVG found, I would be
willing to bet those viruses are list at www.sarc.com, Symantec anti-virus research center. It is more likely the virus definitions were not kept up to date. However, I agree with others, I do not think Norton products are as good as they used to be. -g |
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Don Freeman wrote:
I had a similar experience, only I could never get Norton completely uninstalled, I had to manually delete some of the files and there are still some registry entries it left behind. My employer bought a used Apple computer. He bought new Norton Internet Security Suite from Symantec. The computer already had the program installed. The uninstall program demanded the product key to uninstall. Didn't have it, couldn't get it. The guy in India said he'd send a program to remove it. He didn't. Another time, Symantec sales sent a disk that the computer could not read. After waiting a half hour, the guy in India gave me another phone number. Another half hour, another guy in India told me the first phone number. Glad I was getting paid, but I and we are so done with Symantec. |
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"HDRDTD" wrote in message news He may have installed but never made sure it was kept up to date. Every anti-virus I've ever installed has kept itself updated automatically, by default. Why would norton be different? Oh, yet another reason not to buy norton, I guess. -Dave |
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"Geoff" wrote in message k.net... Nice story but if you have a list of viruses that AVG found, I would be willing to bet those viruses are list at www.sarc.com, Symantec anti-virus research center. It is more likely the virus definitions were not kept up to date. Again, shouldn't anti-virus software update itself automatically, by default? While using Norton, he was connected to the Internet via DSL modem at least every other day. (though Norton itself was causing intermittent Internet connection problems) My point is, if the software wasn't updated regularly, that's a built-in bug, errrrr . . . feature, of the software itself. -Dave |
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Was the subscription up to date? It's not a free program, you have to pay
to renew the subscription each year, otherwise it's going to stop retrieving updates when it runs out. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Dave" wrote in message nk.net... "Geoff" wrote in message k.net... Nice story but if you have a list of viruses that AVG found, I would be willing to bet those viruses are list at www.sarc.com, Symantec anti-virus research center. It is more likely the virus definitions were not kept up to date. Again, shouldn't anti-virus software update itself automatically, by default? While using Norton, he was connected to the Internet via DSL modem at least every other day. (though Norton itself was causing intermittent Internet connection problems) My point is, if the software wasn't updated regularly, that's a built-in bug, errrrr . . . feature, of the software itself. -Dave |
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Why you should never buy Symantec / Norton products
"Seymour Bigby-Heinz" -stuff wrote in message ... On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 02:19:43 GMT, "Dave" wrote: (snip) Dave, you don't even know if the 'mother's boyfriend' left the software in it's default configuration. Many people shut off automatic updates on a variety of software when they prefer to control when the updates are done. Anecdotal evidence of one bad experience is completely lame. I use a variety of antivirus packages for maintaining my machines and Symantec is among the better ones. I quite agree, and we have SAV (the modern name for Norton) running on about 2000 boxes at work. I use it at home because our corp license lets employees use it free at home. The firewall alert lights up avery few minutes when I am online. Damn spammers and botnet twerps are gonna kill the internet..... aem sends... |
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