lol @ all the farkers that were saying that there was no way the theft of a 16 year old source code could affect Symantec :D

Funny, I've considered Norton to be pretty much a virus for years, so another products from them falling into the same category doesn't surprise me.

PCAnywhere must have had government backdoors....

revvoice: I'm using LogMeIn to access my computer to see this site so I'm really getting a kick out of...

ASSUMING CONTROL

Kenny wasn't like the other kids...

I use VNC, RDP, TeamViewer, Join Me, Logmein and DameWare occasionally. PCAnywhere? People actually use that crap?

Doesn't surprise me. The SysAdmin must have allowed the CEO and CFO to choose their coporate antivirus of choice. Symantec regularly does not update properly on any floor computers, causing them to slowly build up larger and larger daily VDB files. At least once a month I come across a computer that has completely run out of hard drive space because of Symantec. It's also slow as shiat, making all systems with it installed nearly unusable around 10AM - 11AM when the antivirus is set to do a daily scan. Every time I've complained (several times over the last 5 years) to the SysAdmin and begged him to switch to something better, he's informed me there is nothing he can do because they are locked into a 2 year contract.

I have been fighting Symantec for as long as I can remember, at several different companies... yet somewhere there's always someone in the chain of command insisting we use it because they're the market leader.

Yep - market leader. So, they're the biggest target of those trying to circumvent protection, and they have no excuse for being as crappy as they are.

They're winning purely on marketing to the PHBs.

Celerian: Doesn't surprise me. The SysAdmin must have allowed the CEO and CFO to choose their coporate antivirus of choice. Symantec regularly does not update properly on any floor computers, causing them to slowly build up larger and larger daily VDB files. At least once a month I come across a computer that has completely run out of hard drive space because of Symantec. It's also slow as shiat, making all systems with it installed nearly unusable around 10AM - 11AM when the antivirus is set to do a daily scan. Every time I've complained (several times over the last 5 years) to the SysAdmin and begged him to switch to something better, he's informed me there is nothing he can do because they are locked into a 2 year contract.

Trend Micro isn't much better. It routinely finds pointless heuristic hits in peoples' browser temp files, while missing and then being blocked from fixing much more problematic, insidious malware.

Somehow, the best resident anti-malware software I've seen working in the modern day is MSAV.

I'm pretty sure it's been a LONG time since pcanywhere was anywhere near popular

netweavr: PCAnywhere must have had government backdoors....

Slut!