midiwall

HAHAHHA...

I've always hated Symantec's pompus attitude!

Corey

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I have never ever ran anything Norton, and I never ever will.
It is crap.

It is a system hog, and hard to get rid of.

Try and sue me for saying this Norton, but its the truth.

d0ubledown

ever since i switched to mac, i havent had to deal with any of that crap anymore. woohoo!

addware? virusware? spyware? tupperware? whaaat...?

calrockx

macs can get viruses too, so don't be too carefree.

you've got to be an idiot these days to run a pc and get a virus. it's not that hard to protect against one.

d0ubledown

yeah...been readin up on the latest on the potential of mac viruses... i've had this one for over 3 years (bought it used, its an oold DP450 G4 running OSX 10.3) and not a single problem thus far.

..of course im still careful about things like viruses...just not as paranoid. and just like dell...its 'great for PORNO' haha

Churnd

The thing is, viruses aren't the main concern anymore. Spyware is. Rootkits are hell, and most can't be ridden without a reformat/reload. Basically what a rootkit does is it rewrites one of your needed system files, or adds itself into the actual system file, and will spread from there. You think you're getting rid of the infection by deleting the files it's spreading, but you're not. It comes right back next time you start up. Can't delete the file, and you can't clean it.

We use Symantec Antivirus at the University I work for. It's got pretty low overhead, and does an average job removing infections. What we need is something to prevent infections, and we have nothing. I personally have been using Windows Defender simply because it's free. It's better than nothing.

How we deal with this security flaw will be interesting to say the least. This is the first I've read about it...

boogyman

it doesn't even affect the home version... it only affects the crappy corporate version. from the article: "eEye said it appeared consumer versions of Symantec's Norton Antivirus software -- sold at retail outlets around the country -- were not vulnerable to the flaw, though consumers who are provided Symantec's corporate edition antivirus software by their employers for use at home may be affected."

snap-on

I used to use noton 7 years or so ago. before it got all bloated and system hogish.

now i use e-trust Antivirus that i "aquired" from the office. seems to do a fare job of keeping the systems virus/trogan free.

i use a couple of other freewares to clean spyware/adware off, but really dont have that much of a problem given my tin foil hat browseing techniques

Jeffires

Not a big Norton fan either... I use Avast and Panda on my personal machines, and they seem to work well without taking too many resources. On my project where I worked with installing a hospital network, we went with McAfee, and we were happy with the interface and did not have any problems either.

If you use common sense, you can usually avoid websites or spam that put this crap on the machines anyway.