Comments on: Symantec sucks

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:29:22 +0000

@ # Dave – your an idiot, John W Thompson prior to Symantec ran a $90B sector at IBM. It's a good thing they put a picture up so you could figure out he is a "negroe". Maybe if you email them they'll put up a picture of his fake degrees so you can do more visual research.

The idea of virus protection is flawed so how do you expect it to work anyway. The only reason any of you have success with other lesser known products is because they are not installed on a large percentage of consumer machines. Your arguing the same way Mac users argue that they don't get viruses. They very well could if someone was dumb enough to write a virus for 4% of the worlds computers as opposed to the smart guys who write viruses for Windows which runs on 73% of the worlds computers.

In conclusion if you run Windows you will have to deal with viruses. You may skirt around most of them but eventually you'll get stuck with one.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:30:00 +0000

The negroe John W Thompson, currently chairman of Norton, promoted from being its CEO for the past decade, received his position as a result of stockholder vote. After he received his position, he received an honorary degree in something (the Norton website doesn't say what, but from the context I would guess business management or administration); after college he obtained a master's degree in management science. There is no evidence on the website that he actually knows anything about information technology. So why did those stockholders vote for him? Did they want a negro for the sake of affirmative action? And who were these voters? I can only suspect, based on the following: I once met a Jew who knew some super rich Jews who would covertly buy up stock in a company, use their voting power to install who they wanted in a key position, then sell their stock and move on to their next target. If it's not good for the company, they don't care because they no longer own the stock. And if their chosen company officer is incompetent, then his subordinates will be able to get away with mischief. A double agent wouldn't be noticed. Maybe even viruses or spyware wouldn't be noticed, or hidden back-doors accessible to third parties who pay for the privilege. When checking an outfit out, Napoleon would first ask, "Who are the generals?" Was Thompson the natural leader of software inventors and technologists? In my view the answer is no; something's wrong there. So I wouldn't use their software even if they paid me to use it.

By: DjLizard

DjLizard — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:02:40 +0000

Thanks steven "mcaffee" ;)

By: steven mcaffee

steven mcaffee — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:32:58 +0000

Norton 360 2010 will trash your puter… oh it protects alright… from anything you want to do. no more movie previews, no more java, no more anything. AND they will not help with their ethiopian workers. No refunds.. buyer beware. slow your puter down totally.. Crap ala Norton .. If you wanna toss out a $100 spot.. send it to Hataii

By: bubba

bubba — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:08:19 +0000

i am in the same boat as the rest of you…as an IT professional who has to work on many different people's computers, i have seen NORTON fuck up sooooooo many things. where to start…..
1)resource hog
2)totally ineffective antivirus scanning
3)it blows up random apps such as :
autocad, photoshop, windows!,
4)impossible to fully uninstall
5)shitty customer support
6)YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR ALL OF THIS!

point is: i would rather cut off my own nuts with a rusty spoon than use ANY norton/symantec product!!! get a real antivirua program…..AVG, avast….or dont even bother…still better than norton!

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By: dell gx620

dell gx620 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:08:05 +0000

i have avira anti virus which works absolutely fine…i recommend all of you out there to use it.

By: still have virus

still have virus — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:39:26 +0000

Twice I've contacted the Symantec help for 2 different viruses Norton 360 couldn't identify. Both times I just got a bunch of "drop down selection" answers. They wanted an extra $99.99 to remote access my computer to have a technician remove the virus. Isn't that Norton 360's job?
I Didn't pay, but now need to find a real program that will detect and delete any virus.
Only wish I had read this before I installed the lame program, looks like I'm in for a fight just to remove 360.

By: pjbee

pjbee — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:16:03 +0000

Bought "EndPoint Protection" for a client, spent a bundle of time and money. It was a near-disaster. All kinds of network problems, drives filling up with quarantine data, etc. Symantec rep claimed that he had never heard of such problems. Nonetheless, Symantec issued a full refund even though it was past their "no-exceptions" evalulation period. The client wouldn't even consider going back to the previous good version, the corporate "Symantec Client Security" v10.x (which is, in fact, pretty good, and much better than their resource-hogging consumer stuff). The corporate version, mind you, has many fewer "features" but it's been fine for corporate and most home use for years.

By: rere

rere — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:35:14 +0000

i hate it so much! they blocked two of my favorite website! i can't buy virtual clothes in stardoll.com, or connect w my friends in friendster.com, i dont know what they'll block again T-T

By: SymantecEmployee

SymantecEmployee — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:54:23 +0000

Im a Symantec employee ans have never seen such poor quality and consideration towards its customers… im obviously looking for work. (TRUE STORY)

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:29:38 +0000

How many stupid peoples there are! What should you do for 30GB crap in Quarantine? They should be "genius" to accomplish that "task".
I have using NAV corporate on my home PC for years and in my Quarantine are 5..10files (less then 1MB). I have tried several antivirus programs – most of them sucks (NOD32 kills my computer's performance). i can't say anything about Avast now, but i'll check this soft

By: Andy S

Andy S — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:38:11 +0000

Since my SAV has gotten corrupted somehow I will not be reinstalling it, I am going to go
with AVG or NOD32. I am a little leery about uninstalling SAV10 with all the problems I have read about, I may just set it not to load anymore.

I did notice that Trend Micro's online scan found 26 backdoors that Norton was unable to.
Norton popped up during the scan and said that they were detected and deleted, but it had never found them before.

Norton Systemworks 2003 also trashed my system awhile back with the erroneous "Your boot record has changed" message. I hit enter to clear my screen saver without realizing that I was agreeing to restore an older version of the MBR. I didn't know about the fdisk/mbr switch, perhaps that might have worked. I didn't lose data though, I just slaved the trashed drive with a new master.

By: Kevin McNamara

Kevin McNamara — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:58:56 +0000

Just another person in total agreement that Symantec sucks! From their dirty licensing schemes to the hours upon hours I have lost due to their products, I have came to hate them.

My PC was performing very poorly last year (5-10 minutes plus to simply bring up a web browser, for example). I uninstalled several programs to no avail. Then I noticed the amount of resources Norton AV was using, and tried uninstalling that. NIGHT AND DAY!!! After that, performance was immediately great.

Now, I had assumed at the time that something else had corrupted my Norton AV installation, not visa versa. Symantec is such a well-known name, I just assumed it couldn't be their fault (I guess that is how the scumbags continue raking it in). But this week, I installed Norton AV 2008 on the same machine. Guess what? Immediately my system started crawling – 5-10 minutes to simply open a browser and get to a web page.

P.S. Very interesting that symantec treats this page a a trojan – dishonest fascist creeps that they are.

By: Eric Hack

Eric Hack — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:01:17 +0000

Did you know that if you copy and paste this pages link (http://djlizard.net/2005/11/18/102/) to a text file symantec detects it as a trojant?!

By: Eric Hack

Eric Hack — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:08:16 +0000

i recently installed SEP 11 with management console for a company with more than 500 clients. it realy f***ed up my brain. when i finished installing the manager it didn't work properly because of interface problems. it took about 4 days to understand what the problem is. it was because of scripting and security policies applied to the whole network by the admin. the client had the same problem too.Another installation problem occurred when updating SAV 10 to SEP 11. The SEP couldn't uninstall SAV 10. i read about 1000 pages of documents and i found the solution. but before reading i used an uninstaller to remove the SAV 10 called Your Uninstaller. it is a good software and i am using it for years. but it couldn't remove the SAV 10 completely and it ruined everything modems,network adapters and …and also it couldn't be reinstalled!!!! it is an absolute SH**.

By: Sanan

Sanan — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:14:16 +0000

I installed SEP 11.0 Management Console. While I've got no complaints on workstations, it was a mistake to deploy the client onto the servers. After installing it, no one in my organization could access AD (my fault for not testing, but hey "it's an improved version of SAV"). If hijaking your computer is an improvement, it's one I don't want. It's not a good product.

Anyway, you'll need a removal tool like the one found at http://downloads.jmlamb.net/symantec/SEP1132bitRemoval.exe

It's an executable that carries out the commands found here http://service1.symantec.com/support/ent-security.nsf/854fa02b4f5013678825731a007d06af/5db8e519e16d42f2882573290005aa1d?OpenDocument

Also, you will get constant errors in Event Viewer\System because you need to get RASMan back to its pre-SEP state. To do this, you'll need to restore your backed up registry settings or manually change them. In registry, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RasMan\PPP\EAP and in the "13" and "25" folders, change any values in the right pane that refer to "Symantec Endpoint Protection" to "C:\WINDOWS\system32\rastls.dll". Run services.msc, start Remote Access Auto Connection Manager service and Remote Access Connection Manager service and you're good to go. Go through these steps on any XP, 2003 and 2003 SBS machine that you installed SEP 11.0 on and you'll pretty much get back to an SEP free system.

Good luck.

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:10:44 +0000

Symantec is no longer an organization to be taken seriously.

This is because their financial problems have left Symantec demoralized and without integrity.

Who's gonna purchase their stock?

By: I HATE SYMANTEC

I HATE SYMANTEC — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:03:31 +0000

I installed Symantec Endpoint Protection on a SBS 2003 box. The Symantec support people said this was the new version ov the antivirus program and I needed to install it.
The install took 10 hours and several reboots and a lot of downtime. After it was installed, SEP would lock up the server every few hours and the only way to make it work again was a hard reboot. I uninstalled SEP – which also locked up the server. But, by that time, with all the hard reboots, the Exchange database was corrupt. This led to 12 hours of fixing an 18 GB Exchange database.
SEP is the worst application I have ever used.

By: DjLizard

DjLizard — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 06:40:55 +0000

Thanks Jeffy.
Here's one for you: AV sucks

By: JeffyPooh

JeffyPooh — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:15:32 +0000

I got so sick and tired of all the obvious bugs with Symantec's Norton Internet Security 2007 that I was forced to start a blog.

There were SO MANY problems that I simply could NOT allow them to go unreported.

Link= http://symantec-sucks.blogspot.com/