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Symantec Error Gets Vicars In A Twist
News The Church of England's publishing arm has advised clergy to ignore Symantec threat warnings, after its Norton Antivirus product wrongly identified church software as spyware. Thomas Allain-Chapman, head of publishing for CHP, claimed CHP had been...
[August 3, 2006, 14:35]
Norton AV Flaw Opens Door To Hackers
News Norton AntiVirus, one of Symantec's most popular Internet security products, contains a security flaw that could allow malicious users to easily disable the software's auto-protect feature, according to an advisory by security Web site Secunia.
[October 19, 2004, 11:30]
Norton Update Kills AOL Connections
News AntiVirus and Norton Internet Security, Symantec said in a statement sent via email on Thursday. An incorrect update to Symantec's Norton security software on Wednesday blocked Internet access for some America Online users.
[March 17, 2006, 15:35]
Symantec Security Products Hit By High-risk Flaw
News According to an advisory issued by Secunia, the bug affects most of Symantec's products, including enterprise and home user versions of Symantec AntiVirus, Symantec Norton AntiVirus and Symantec Norton Internet Security, across both the Windows...
[December 21, 2005, 12:00]
Symantec Announces Norton Updates
News Symantec on Tuesday announced Norton AntiVirus 2007 and Norton Internet Security 2007, updated versions of the company's widely used security software for consumers. The updates to Symantec's traditional Norton products precede the launch of a next...
[September 13, 2006, 9:30]
Symantec Flaw Putting Users At Risk
News The vulnerability affects an antivirus library used by the majority of Symantec's antivirus and anti-spam products, including Norton SystemWorks 2004 and Symantec Mail Security for Exchange, the security provider said on Tuesday.
[February 10, 2005, 8:30]
Symantec Releases Norton 360
News Symantec, the world's largest PC antivirus maker, on Monday unleashed Norton 360, the company's latest salvo in the battle for consumer security dollars. Norton 360 is Symantec's new flagship consumer security product, unseating its Norton Internet...
[February 27, 2007, 8:13]
US Report: Symantec Buys Intel Anti-virus Business
News Symantec's existing Norton AntiVirus technology will be integrated into a new anti-virus product that Intel has had under development for most of this year. As part of the agreement, Symantec will support Intel's 18,000 registered anti-virus...
[September 28, 1998, 15:57]
Symantec Blames VeriSign For Norton AV Woes
News The problems caused a flurry of angry posts to the Symantec area of support forums from users saying they would ditch Symantec's Norton AntiVirus. Neither Verisign nor Symantec could immediately explain the exact sequence of events, but according...
[January 9, 2004, 15:20]
Symantec Slams The Door On Live Update Flaw
News Last Friday, Symantec's support forums were flooded with Norton AntiVirus users complaining of slow and unstable computers after the latest signature updates. Security company Symantec, developer of the popular Norton AntiVirus software, fixed a...
[January 13, 2004, 15:55]
Symantec Patches Four Critical Firewall Flaws
News Security firm eEye on Wednesday published details of four security holes that affect a range of Symantec's client-based applications including Norton Internet Security, Norton AntiVirus and Norton AntiSpam.
[May 13, 2004, 13:20]
Norton AV Flaw May Put PCs At Risk Of Virus Attack
News Symantec has admitted its flagship consumer security application, Norton AntiVirus 2005, has a security vulnerability that allows certain types of malicious script to infect a user's personal computer with a virus.
[November 9, 2004, 9:28]
Symantec Raises Norton Prices
News Symantec has quietly raised renewal prices for its Norton antivirus and other products, a move some see as a parting shot before Microsoft enters the consumer security fray next year. Symantec has also cut the upfront price of Norton AntiVirus by...
[October 13, 2005, 10:40]
Antivirus Vendors Crack Down On EBay Licence Cheats
News A quick surf around eBay today by ZDNet UK sister site Silicon.com uncovered dozens of sales offering software from Symantec's Norton range, as well as McAfee products. John Thompson, chief executive of Symantec, last month said, "The Norton brand...
[May 18, 2006, 8:55]
Symantec Slams The Door On Live Update Flaw
Talkback I did not feel like paying to renew my NortonAV subscription, so I uninstalled Norton and downloaded Symantec AntiVirus for free off my university's website. I used to have Norton AntiVirus, and for some reason it suddenly stopped being able to...
[April 22, 2006, 19:12]
Chinese Lawyer To Take Symantec To Court Over XP File Deletion
Blog A Beijing Symantec customer has also filed a lawsuit seeking 50,000 yuan compensation for data lost from his laptop due to the Norton update. According to China View, Liu Shihui, a lawyer with the Hongmian Law Firm in southern Guangdong Province...
[June 4, 2007, 15:19]
Personal Firewalls Could Leak Private Info
News Tom Powledge, group product manager of Symantec's Norton Internet Security, agreed, saying that while the company will investigate the issue, it has always advised its customers to use the personal firewall in conjunction with antivirus software.
[November 12, 2001, 10:36]
Worms Create Rough Ride For Symantec
News Consumer sales, meanwhile, got a boost from both Norton AntiVirus and Norton Internet Security products. Through its Norton products -- such as Internet Security, Personal Firewall, SystemWorks and AntiVirus -- it is one of the companies able to...
[April 27, 2004, 15:20]
Microsoft Accused Of Withholding Vista APIs
News The timing of this is crucial for Symantec, as it is due to ship a Vista-compatible Norton antivirus product to PC makers in October. Now we're good, but we're not good enough [to integrate Norton with Defender] in that time," said a Symantec...
[September 27, 2006, 12:35]
Another Day, Another Virus
News These include Symantec's Norton AntiVirus for Internet Email Gateways and Norton AntiVirus for Lotus Notes and Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange. Besides making sure your customers are safe behind constantly updated anti-viral programs...
[April 8, 1999, 16:48]
