Posts Tagged ‘symantec’

Thank you Symantec

I’ve always liked their software, but now I really like them because of their business. This is great. I’ve spoken about this before. This is very important for all computer users.

Thank you Norton, for wasting an hour of my life

I gave you the best hour of my life!
Ok, it wasn’t that bad.
Symantec, apparently deployed a new version of Live Update today, and it apparently wasn’t well tested. After days of serious virus catches, it updated, and live updated, doesn’t function. I uninstall, reinstall, uninstall again, clear registry out a bit, [...]

Viruses

W32.Sobig.F is getting very annoying. So is W32.Blaster.Worm.
Why can’t people just take proper precautions:

Firewall. I have 3, Win XP firewall/OS X Firewall, Sygate Personal Firewall (laptop), and a Netgear Hardware firewall (w/ SPI). All you really need is 1.
Virus Scan
Secure up to date software. At the very least, update Windows. [...]