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Story: Symantec blames VeriSign for Norton AV woes
Posted by: Tironianae (Wednesday 14 January 2004, 2:07 PM)
Both Symantec and McAfee products are extremely poorly developed, and especially as related to their "live updating" features. Not only do their products miss substantial numbers of events and viruses etc, the live update features continually bog down the processors killing services at the host, which requires numerous unecessary reboots. That and the fact that the products do the same downloads between 10 and 50 times per day(tracked and verified), of the same exact updates is completely ridiculous.
Another apparent design flaw is the ability to turn off the live update feature, in Norton products specifically, to set to manual "notify me when updates are available" does not work, except that the cute little update icon goes away, but the product continues to update, causing the above problems with host processors
I, for one, will not renew my subscriptions when time, nor will Symantec products ever run on my corporate servers in the future.
Full Talkback thread
Story: Symantec blames VeriSign for Norton AV woes
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i think it has help as i having problem with inter... chris -
While I understand that Symantec and Verisign are... Anonymous
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You will see more of these events affecting all so... Anonymous
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The problem is that Norton Anti-Virus is automatic... Phil Wallace
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Now that's interesting. Since that AV download wh... Rob T-P
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Well, I didn't notice any slow-down in my system,... Anonymous
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Both Symantec and McAfee products are extremely po... Tironianae -
I recently downloaded NAV2004 and I regret it. It... Brian Fall
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I recently downloaded NAV2004 and it has left me w... ken griggs
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I e-mail the following to symantec and have still... Paul Sheaf
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I have the same problem with Norton Internet... Carolyn Huffmon
