Norton Antivirus is at it again, and by 'it', I mean sucking.

This customer's machine has OVER 70 GIGABYTES of viruses QUARANTINED. They are all the EXACT SAME FILE. 47,713 BYTES times a kajillion. I couldn't even tell you how many files there were because it would have taken hours to get a directory listing. I've begun an rmdir /s /q (because explorer.exe is too slow for this).

What is wrong with Symantec? Why do they continue to make (and furthermore, how are they continuing to sell so many copies of) a program where the quarantine folder can take up your entire hard drive (ruining Windows completely)? Why is it always impossible to install or uninstall their products, and why does it usually break the BITS service (ruining Windows Update, which Dial-a-fix can fix, thankfully) when you try to use their horrible SymNRT to remove their horrible product? Why do their products break each other, and why is it nearly impossible to install a new version of one of their programs after an older version has been removed? Why does every brand new product of theirs (such as Antivirus 2006) already have 30MB of core updates, right after it was shipped (not including virus/spyware definitions)? Why isn't there yet a symantecsucks.com or something? :P

It's been deleting for ~5 minutes, and I have 2.5 GB of free space back so far… ~67 more gigabytes to go. :(

Edit: This is why I use avast! (on customer machines; on my own personal machine I don't use antivirus or spyware protection)

Edit 2: 2:37 PM (EST) and 20 GB has been deleted thus far.

Final edit: It took approximately 6 hours to delete ~75 GB worth of the same exact 47,713 byte file.