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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Mr_Tricorder on February 11, 2006, 06:41:26 pm
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I just saw this on Slashdot, and because of the general sentiment towards Norton Anti-Virus that most people here (myself included) seem to share, I just had to share this one.
Slashdot post below can be found here http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/02/11/2259232.shtml
IT: Microsoft Anti-Spyware Removes Norton Anti-Virus
Posted by Zonk on Saturday February 11, @06:32PM
from the that's-a-big-oops dept.
Security
An anonymous reader writes "According to a story over at Washingtonpost.com, the latest definitions file for Microsoft's Anti-Spyware beta flags Symantec's Norton Antivirus products as a password-stealing trojan and prompts users to delete portions of the program. Users who follow the instructions hose their installation of Norton, requiring delicate Windows registry edits and a complete removal/reinstall of Norton. Microsoft's support forum is quickly filling up with complaints about this problem, many from businesses that have been pretty hard hit. This should be a cautionary tale about deploying beta products in production environments."
The above post contains this link to an article from washingtonpost.com http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/02/microsoft_antispyware_deleting_1.html
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:rofl: I love it. Too bad it wasn't intentional. I'm still pretty steamed at Norton for disabling my step-father's internet connection forcing him to pay for phone support and a subscription renewal in order to be able to access the internet again... I chastised him for caving in to their extortionist tactis. Ugly, really ugly.
Oh well, there's one born every minute as they say...
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:rofl: I love it. Too bad it wasn't intentional. I'm still pretty steamed at Norton for disabling my step-father's internet connection forcing him to pay for phone support and a subscription renewal in order to be able to access the internet again... I chastised him for caving in to their extortionist tactis. Ugly, really ugly.
Oh well, there's one born every minute as they say...
:rofl: :rofl:
Thats hilarious, reminds me of what AOL software did to my original Nav install. This is a turf war and MS will prolly win.
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:rofl: I love it. Too bad it wasn't intentional. I'm still pretty steamed at Norton for disabling my step-father's internet connection forcing him to pay for phone support and a subscription renewal in order to be able to access the internet again... I chastised him for caving in to their extortionist tactis. Ugly, really ugly.
Oh well, there's one born every minute as they say...
:rofl: :rofl:
Thats hilarious, reminds me of what AOL software did to my original Nav install. This is a turf war and MS will prolly win.
I just hope that people's PCs don't become a no-man's-land during the battle.
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I just hope that people's PCs don't become a no-man's-land during the battle.
Too late for that... its been the case ever since Peter Norton left MS. ;)