Symantec warns users over Bluetooth security

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How about Bluetooth warning us about SYMANTEC?

Consider the source:

Symantec has personally and maliciously destroyed several high end USEFUL products and have caused the parent companies to go out of business, because they were basically one-product companies.

First was NORTON. Originally Norton was a very helpful guy who wrote several good books back at the dawn of the PC. He knew several tricks that helped us keep our 8088's running at full speed, all 5 MHz of it. Nevertheless, they guy was a genius at sharing exactly how to get the best of our PCs, and when then Symantec "obtained" his ideas and immediately made the first "NORTON UTILITIES" bundle for Dos 6.2: A product which DESTROYED all of my schoolwork in 1994, because two of Norton's processes were not intended to be run at the same time, and the Norton bundle bundles the two processes together and the result was one 20 MB WD hard Drive that cos me about 150 bucks back them was obliterated.

I had thought for a long time it was Norton's fault, but over the years, I see, he was the victim like I was the victim.

Then when I had one of my first windows 98 systems, I installed another SYMANTEC bundled product. My system which was satisfactory, once again was destroyed by SYMANTEC.

Then, Symantec "obtained" the company that made GHOST, and they destroyed that as well. And then they targeted WRQ "AT Guard" Firewall and bundled it into their POS "Norton Personal Security" - And so in one fell swooop fell the best firewall that was ever made, for PC users, easy to install and use, and the only Firewall that gave the user direct personal control over each connection coming into the user's machine: WRQ was so upset about this HOSTILE takeover that they kept their AT GUARD Product website OPEN, against Symantec Wishes, and offered LICENCED downloads of AtGuard FOR FREE. FOR FREE.

I used to use a product called Clean Sweep: It was useful, then Norton Obtained/Destroyed it. I used to use Power Quest Partition Magic, I stopped using the product when it became SYMANTEC partition Magic.

Ironically, PowerQuest Partition Magic 8 and Norton PM8.x ARE EXACTLY THE SAME PRODUCT: But Norton built things into their version that took away the versatility of that PowerQuest Product, and also took away several KEY features which allowed us to copy our hard drive and partition contents from one drive to another.

And that did Power Quest do? They leaked the final version of their Partition Magic to the FOSI cracking group, and I switched to that version, even though I had my own version of the Power Quest product: and with it, I was able to make BOOT DISKS that ran the PM program and allowed be to copy full partitions in half an hour compared to 3 hours like the Norton product: CDs that ran the product in full capability under a primitive DOS interface. It was just wonderful, and kicked Norton in the B***s big time.

Other great products have fallen PREY to Symantec's SUCKING TENTACLES: The list is too long to post here in its compleatness.

It has taken almost 10 years for Acronis to create True Image Workstation and Disk Director.

I am, keeping my eye on this product, SYMANTEC will be swallowing it up soon.

Now, Norton and/or Symantec Anti Virus, along with the worthless System Works, is the most invasive pile of steaming PooPoo ever seen: And the smell is to be avoided.

I have spent the last seven years, deleting Norton/Symantec products with a vengeance and gleefully installing other, BETTER, AV products.

Among the replacement products used to me Mcafee AV: It seemed to be the only AV that WORKED. But the problem was, once you turned on the activity monitor... It cost you any speed of your PC.

This was extremely bad with those 1 GHz Athlon (K7s) - even with 512 PC-133 Ram, the system would star taking up to 15 minutes to compleatly load.

And do not get me started on CELERONS. A lot of the Celeron machines I worked on in 2005, had to be sent back for a refund and Pentium IVs bought instead.

So, I switched to ESET NOD32. Between ESET and Ad Aware, it finds almost all of the real irritating stuff: But I am not worried, real bad disgusto Malware programs like Spy falcon are easily deeleted once you find the affected system files and DLLS which are attaching to IE.

Therefore, I find it OFFENSIVE that Symantec DARES to issue this warning, and I refuse to take it seriously until I hear it from ESET. And I also refuse to download any of Symantec's "Quick Fixes"- I had to do that for that double damned BLASTER worm, and Symantec's Rediculo-Fix was worse than the rebooting problem- I basically kept my computers shut off until MS came out with their REAL Blaster fix.

Anyway: A person who does not know how to protect themselves from Network attacks will depend on Norton's worthless products, which is fine by me, cos inevitably, usage of Norton Products to "Fox" so-called security holes will ultimately cause the persons PC to crash, and then they will be off the net until they buy their next crummy GatewayDellHPFujitsu 500 dollah computer made in China, out of floor sweepings, and then the process will start again, cos those crappy PCs all have Norton/Symantdreck Dreck bundled into the system, which is a major cascade failure ready to happen.

So, we can safely ignore this "warning" until we hear about it from a more reliable source.

It is not to be doubted that ANY wireless networking connection into ANY Laptop or Desktop or Blue Tooth Router (Is there anything like that?) - Can be gotten into by clever kids, but most of the time, this activity happens because the owners of the gadgets that have the blue tooth connections don't know whit one about setting up computer security.

It is very easy to set up safeguards to keep people out of your system, and to "depend" on Symantec to do it for you, is ludicrous. Real Security does not come when you guy a product marked SYMANTEC on a box: REAL security comes when the PC user does his own research and finds out FOR HIMSELF how to keep invaders out of his system.

And this can be done, without the use of security products, I say it can be done cos I do it, and I only use those two items I mention. Any sufficiently suspicious person, will not have to even read the headers on the email, but just dump them all into the deleted bin: Cos thats where most of the gunk comes from. The rest of it comes from Porn websites, which I think may be Symantec's silent partner- Cos the worst virii come from porn sites, and Symantec SEEMS to have a fix for it immediately. Ergo, it may be that Symantec is actually making the crud and giving it to porn sites.

To Blazes with Symantec, use useful programs like ESET. Even Mcafee.

Posted by: XweAponX   Posted on: 09/22/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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