Symantec details flaws in its antivirus software

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Symantec=No problems for me=head in sand

By the heading of your message we can all tell what kind of expert you are (check your spelling). I've had nearly 30 years of computer experience, including more than 20 years of PC experience; and Norton Antivirus hs definitely slipping. Running the IT side of a consulting company I can tell you that Norton's quality has been continually slipping - especially in the last 3-4 years - when it comes to antivirus. They are late to detect threats and in some cases never catch them. We have clients that are switching by the droves to other software such as Eset's NOD32 and Computer Associates eTrust Antivirus because Norton misses trojans and virus applications as well as impacts performance on systems. Their corporate antivirus version 10 impacts performance so severely that it has forced some enterprise clients to make sure that all of their systems are at least 2.66Ghz Pentium 4 systems with a minimum of 512Mb of memory.

Before you start attacking everyone's abilities, perhaps you should take a look at real-world computing where not everyone uses AMD Athlon 64 3000+ processors. There are a LOT of 2.0Ghz and 2.4Ghz systems out there with 256Mb of RAM that Norton antivirus solutions from 2004 and 2005 will bring to their knees because of being so CPU intensive.

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