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Symantec Hit by Product Activation Glitch

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the humbled-beginnings dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to this article, Symantec has hit a snag in their product activation scheme. On a certain machine, the software machine would always ask for the activation when the computer is started or restarted, despite the fact that they have thoroughly tested the scheme." According to the article, Symantec has finally managed to replicate the problem, and those hit by the bug are asked to contact Symantec's support channels. However, there's no mention of a fix yet.

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  1. Re:How Do They Not Get It? by i_want_you_to_throw_ · · Score: 4, Informative

    This reminds me of what Eric Raymond said in the Cathedral and the Bazaar. He pointed out that better code is generated when there's an actual love for it versus some boss just coming to you and saying "we need this, this, this and this put in".

  2. Re:Honest users the victims by TheMidget · · Score: 5, Informative
    There is no point in buying PowerQuest Drive Image anyways, as there is plenty of free alternatives:

    And with these kinds of application, the OS which it uses is of no concern anyways: these tools usually come with their own bootdisk, and there is absolutely no problem to duplicate a Windows partition using a Unix based tool!