Hacker says to release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday

http://news.yahoo.com ^ | 1-14-2012 | (Reporting By Frank Jack Daniel)

[Red Badger]

Why? It doesn't work well anyway.........maybe someone can fix it.............

[Red Badger]

Ping!.........

[trumandogz]

Good for Yama Tough for showing the world how inept Norton is at computer security.

[bigbob]

Not to condone theft of IP, but maybe someone can now figure out what makes it darn near impossible to remove all traces of Nortons useless crapware from a PC!

[Dallas59]

Ugh. Norton.

[apoxonu]

Only one way I know of - you have to edit the registry. Symantec has instructions buried somewhere on their website.

I actually wound up saving all my data and files, then wiping the drive and starting over. I now use ESET which is far simpler, isn't continually broadcasting information about my computer to who-knows-who and doesn't hog resources.

[Gaffer]

Loaded NAV up once. Slowed my system down to a damned snails pace. Deleted it immediately....never again.

[Celtic Cross]

Crap. I have norton on my dell xps, today I shut the computer down, and it won’t start back up. It doesn’t get by the initial startup. I wonder if this is related...

[the invisib1e hand]

It reduces victims of hacking by being such an annoyance that people shut their computers off and use the telephone.

[Brandonmark]

Reporting By Frank Jack Daniel

Sounds like a plan to me...

[BobL]

Say what you will, but I generally leave my computers unprotected against the horrible outside world.

In general, it’s worked fine. I don’t open unknown attachments and I’m somewhat careful what sites I click to. I only pay with credit cards, knowing that a fake charge will be dealt with by the credit card, with little or no risk to me. One time, a non-computer savey friend picked up a a root kit. Yes, it was a pain to get rid of it (I needed a clean computer to advise me), but I did.

Other than no problems. My computers run MUCH FASTER without that garbage watching them.

[Red Badger]

If you think Norton is slow, try MaCafee, it’ll make Norton look like a Ferrari...

[Gaffer]

I’ve had both. Never again....using MSE now...works great!

[null and void]

Why? It doesn't work well anyway.........maybe someone can fix it.............

Why?

Maybe someone can figure out how to actually uninstall it!

[wally_bert]

They are both horrid. Many years back I liked Nortons. For the past few years I have run VIPRE and have had no complaints.

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[DManA]

Get a cheap laptop that you only use for internet use. Make an image of the pristine machine. Once a week reload the image.

For your important work keep a machine that never gets connected.

[BipolarBob]

At first I was going to ignore this article . . but then I sat up and took notice.

[6SJ7]

Release Norton!

[dfwgator]

Good for Yama Tough for showing the world how inept Norton is at computer security.

But they're really good at taking up all of your computer's CPU.