Update:
Now that the poll is over it seems most people agreed with me that suites aren't the
way to go anyway:
Readers dubious of suites, want to mix and match
The tremendous response to our request for your opinion on the best approach to
securing your PC gives us much to ponder as we prepare the next Security
Baseline update.
The first is that individual antivirus, anti-spyware, firewall, and other specialty apps
are preferable to such all-in-one security suites as Symantec's Norton Internet
Security 2009
The second is that a security solution that works great on one PC or network may
flop miserably on another.
The Article**********************************************************
And more Symantec errors:
Symantec's Norton AV oops causes a big headache
(From the Paid Version)
For some reason, Symantec sent an unsigned file a few days ago to users of its
Norton antivirus product. As a result, many Norton users were alerted to an
unknown file that was requesting access to the Internet.
After determining that the "suspicious" file had actually come from Symantec, users
went online to the company's forums and posted questions. The resulting increase
of questions and concerns led to Symantec staffers, at one point, deleting valid
messages from the forums in an attempt to calm the angry crowd.
As reported in a CNET article, Symantec failed to tell users ahead of time that it
was sending out a diagnostic file. Symantec's failure to digitally sign the file caused
it to generate alerts on firewalls. The company did a poor job of handling the
resulting firestorm of concern.
Although some unwanted spammers did manage to post junk in the forums to take
advantage of the confusion, Symantec should have been up-front about the
problem and not deleting entire threads. Let this be a lesson to all vendors: come
clean about what you're doing. Let's hope they get the hint.
Thump
Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:42 am
