Re: Norton or McAfee
From: donnie (donnie_at_queyosepa.org)
Date: 03/31/05
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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:48:35 GMT
On 29 Mar 2005 20:56:53 EST, winged <winged@nofollow.com> wrote:
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>> I have seen symantec products conflict w/ a lot of things over the
>> last 10 years. The most recent being Norton was stopping a friend of
>> mine from saving a Word Doc.
>> donnie
>
>Was it stopping the document save due to a Word macro virus?
>Yes, through the years Norton/Symantec have had various hiccups, though
>if one looks at the AV community issues are not unique to Symantec.
>There have been some issues with MicroTrend and McAfee recently. It is
>not a simple business.
>
>My most disturbing issue with Symantec is the inability to remove the
>product from the system completely without manual editing of the
>registry.
>
>I can understand your frustration, but I suspect I could give similar
>examples to the other AV products on the market. I have had excellent
>support from Symantec, which is more than I have received from other
>vendors.
>Winged
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I'll answer a few of the points you made. No, there was no macro
virus.
Yes, I'm sure there are issues w/ some of the other AV programs which
is why I try to avoid being put into a corner as to "which side are
you on"? type of thing. Notice I didn't pick McAfee, I just said I
wouldn't use Symantec. Constantly, someone wants us to choose,
republican or democrat, leader or follower, Arab or Jew, New York
Times or the New York Post.. Do I really have to pick one? I don't
like any of those choices. .
I don't have any AV program on my PC and I never get a virus The
last time I updated and ran Spybot S&D, it said Congrats, no problems
were found..
Yes, I agree on the unistall problem of having to make registry
changes. In fact, there is a Symantec product worse then that in
regards to uninstall. WinFax Pro. If you try to uninstall it and if
you don't choose 'yes to all' when prompted for the removal of certain
files, you have to either go into the registry or re-instrall the OS
in order to re-install WinFax.
In conclusion, all the years that I have been either using PCs, it
seems that the conflicts will never stop and the price just keeps
rising. That's enough for me to boycott symantec.
donnie
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