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Norton AV is Bad 4 U

I've been a software engineer for 20 years, and I can't believe people buy Norton. It acts like a virus itself--just try to uninstall it. People, we've lost the virus war. The problem domain is too huge--the only way to counter it is to get the latest updates for the OS, and to tune your firewall, and reduce your attack footprint (the things a virus could attack). I only recommend Norton as maybe an occasional scan/fix. But, the default installation makes your pc nearly unusable.

Those people in china won't have XP cd's. There's still people in china that don't have toilets, do you really think they bought legal cd's, when some poor guy sells copies at every street corner for a dollar?

Economically speaking, what's going to happen to the Chinese economy if the top 1% of the people that can afford PCs can't use them for 3 days. I'm thinking that if a million important, educated, people can't boot their machine, the GDP of china will probably go down by .5% this year. THAT will make a really interesting lawsuit against Norton.

Posted by: jwinkler2083233   Posted on: 05/25/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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