Critica a Norton Antivirus

Fonte: IMHO, Symantec has done more damage themselves!

It makes me cringe whenever I hear Symantec making these "predictions" about potential attacks on computers.

I have run into *countless* numbers of damaged Windows installations, directly attributable to Symantec's own products. Just last week, I struggled for hours with a customer's XP Home Edition because he was "having problems getting any streaming audio to work properly".

Upon closer examination, the XP firewall was in a corrupt state, refusing to allow connections for his Internet radio stations. I was unable to view the advanced firewall properties, etc. After looking up event log error codes and trying several methods that repaired the problem for some people, it became obvious that I was looking at the result of a botched uninstall of a Symantec Personal Firewall or "Internet Security Suite" product.

Not only can these things happen, but you'll often see computers with errors with the "32-bit subsystem" when going to an MS-DOS command prompt, due to Norton products screwing up system registry settings due to an improper/incomplete uninstall or installation/upgrade.

Furthermore, when their anti-virus and "security suite" products do work properly, they still bring older, slower PCs to their knees in many cases. The "on-demand scanning" feature lags far behind the rest of the system when working with large numbers of small files (extracting a ZIP or the like), causing a window to constantly pop up, informing you to "please wait" while it scans them... And their "activation" process they now require for their AV products in Windows is every bit as bad as Microsoft's XP activation procedures! I remember purchasing a 25-pack of OEM Norton AV licenses last year, only to find that 6 or 7 of the key codes refused to work, claiming they were "used too many times" or the like. (I guess pirates with keygens hit upon them already or something?) Thiis is *not* the type of B.S. you want to fool around with when you're on a client site, getting paid by the hour to fix a virus problem for them!

I won't even go into the disk corruption their "Disk Doctor" for Macintosh did to MANY customers after they upgraded to newer versions of OS X and Symantec didn't keep up with needed changes/patches to the product!

Their company went down the tubes ever since Peter Norton quit coding their products and started getting royalties for having his photo thrown on the front of the packages.