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Symantec Adds Product Activation
maliabu writes "GlobeTechnology/CNET reports that Symantec has added an antipiracy technology to the new version of its main virus-zapping program, in the form of compulsory product activation. It is intended to protect consumers from widespread counterfeit copies of Symantec programs. The company estimates at least 3.6 million bogus copies of its programs are sold annually, causing headaches both for Symantec and unsuspecting buyers, who find out too late that the software isn't doing the job."
LOL lolz LOL WTF OMG LOLZ FTP omg!!!!
you made me spit coke out my ears
hmm...two comments in a row about AVG.
i smell shill here.
I hope the rest of the readers here will see through this desperate cry for publicity.
Cfdisk the shit. mkfs ext3 Works every time, no more bullshit Windows software tax.
OH THE SHAME I fell off the wagon and use sigs again!
why does anywon need so much payper virot 'protection' anyway? like they're being held hostage buy some Godless greed/fear based georgewellian fuddite southern baptist freemason corepirate nazi stock markup FraUD execrable, & have to pay for their hostagedumb? sheesh.
.asps. take yOUR time dough, we'll be here for you too, as your only 'offense' is being MiSled buy whoreable ?pr? ?firm? MiSinformaNTs/felonious larcens.
.asp for va lairIE's whoreabull pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) devise?, used against the truth/to protect robbIE's payper liesense stock markup bosses/corepirate nazi 'sponsors'. yuk.
no matter, it'll all be overt/solved soon (by our measure). that could be quite a while (many more killed/damaged innocents, each one resulting in the aforementioned badtoll, that must/will be repaid by you/us), if some of you fudgeheads continue to refuse to have your befuddulled heads removed from your infactdead/hostaged
fuddles.con is running linux now. no DOWt about that.
fauxking phonIE payper liesense stock markup FraUD execrable that they remain.
that's right, after the walking dead finish exterminating themselves, & sadly enough, some of us, it won't take long to clean up this cesspool of greed/fear execrable.
we're calling it the planet/population rescue program (formerly unknown as the oil for babies initiatve).
the Godless wons are helping by continuing to show where their hearts lie.
what's wrong with folks selling their kode? if it causes convenience, & interoperates with all the other kode on the planet, we say, no harm, no foul, so long as you fail to employ gangsterious/felonious practices to asphyxiate the 'competition'. sabotaging your free version of anything is a tad dastardly. if there's value added, without FUDging up the compatability, we'll pay. same with music. no more gouging dough though.
fortunately, mr stallman et AL, etcetera, is now offering comparable/superior software, to the payper liesense spy/bug wear feechurned models, in almost every circumstance. there'll be few, if any more softwar billyonerrors, as if there's a need for even won. tell 'em robbIE. you are won of the last wons whois soul DOWt, right?
back on task.
what might happen to US if unprecedented evile/the felonious georgewellian southern baptist freemason fuddite rain of error, fails to be intervened on?
you already know that too. stop pretending. it doesn't help/makes things worse.
they could burn up the the main processor. that would be the rapidly heating planet/population, in case you're still pretending not to notice.
of course, having to badtoll va lairIE's whoreabully infactdead, pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) devise, robbIE's ego, the walking dead, etc..., doesn't slow us down a bit.
that's right. those foulcurrs best get ready to see the light. the WANing daze of the phonIE greed/fear/ego based, thieving/murdering payper liesense hostage taking stock markup FraUD georgewellian fuddite execrable are #ed. talk about a wormIE cesspool of deception? eradicating yOUR domestic corepirate nazi terrorist/gangsters will be the new national pastime.
communications will improve, using whatever power sources are available.
you gnu/software folks are to be commended. we'd be nearly doomed by now (instead, we're opening yet another isp service) without y'all. the check's in the mail again.
meanwhile... for those yet to see the light.
don't come crying to us when there's only won channel/os left.
nothing has changed since the last phonIE ?pr? ?firm? generated 'news' brIEf. lots of good folks/innocents are being killed/mutilated daily by the walking dead. if anything the situations are continuing to deteriorate. you already know that.
the posterboys for grand larcenIE/deception would include any & all of the walking dead who peddle phonIE stock markup payper to millions of hardworking conservative folks, & then, after stealing/spendin
until they just call it compulsory product de-activation for the virii they produce to keep themselves in business.
Symantec can't even stop hackers from putting out new viruses that can compromise your computer without putting out a new virus defs file every few days -- what makes them think they can come up with a product activation scheme that won't be obsolete just as fast as their latest virus defs?
Let's face it, even if they could lick the virus problem once and for all, that would mean they'd be out of a job, now, wouldn't it? Now why would they go and do a thing like that?
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
What exactly is your point? I hate people who like to instigate others by "sitting on the fence". If you want to side with Symantec, great. If you are on the "free software dork's side", great. Otherwise, shut the hell up.
real geeks hate soap operas.
no .contest. these foulcurrs will priNT ANYthing that the georgewellian fuddite corepirate nazi execrable pay them to.
.asp.
&, as if buy pavlovian whoredoggIE MiStraining, robbIE reposts it here, to garner some eyeballs, for the deception fest.
mynuts won again, eh robbIE, you little whoredoggIE you. you ought to scrap that whoreabull PostBlock(tm) devise, as it shows the ineptitude of the SourceForgerIE's(tm) "product" LIEn.
stuff that matters, my
any notion you have that you are in charge of/control ANYthing, is just another MiSnomer of the corepirate nazi hypenosys/debt load that you have been MiStrained to bulleave will immunize/protect you from the big flash.
lookout bullow. J. et AL, ain't buyin' it anymore.
thanks anyway robbIE, for the 4 stories about stuff that really matters, that you posted last weak.
the rest of it, all sucks more/better than the phonIE vacuum storIEs.
Oh, I'm sorry.. perhaps I should just submit stories to slashdot saying "hear ye, hear ye! code unhacked for 2 years! who is the mighty codesmith who shall smite me, the lord of reasonably protected software! pr0n and geek adoration for the successfull challenger! headaches and lost profits for me!"