Symantec Hit by Product Activation Glitch

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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[John Paul Jones]

He also recommended that customers who encounter the problem not restart their computers.

Obvious jab at Windows and the three-a-day reboot plan aside, this is just dumb. In fact, the whole situation is just dumb. Why does it seem that Symantec/Norton <insert product here> consistently makes a bad situation much, much worse?

should i be the first to do so?

[segment]

/nick LiNuX4eVeR
h4h4h4h d4ts why 1 rUn LiNuX BeCaUsE mIcRoSoPhT sUcKs
/exec -o uptime

I run Solaris, BSD, and ocassionally Linux. I've yet to get hit with a virus, worm, or spyware. I'm not running zilch on one of my desktops and worry little about MS' security flaws since I keep nothing important on this particular machine. Sure it's shitty having a gap bigger than Bella Donna's teeth, but what 'impact' this has is small to me, at most I'm just going to have a slew of workers stop me in the hall whining because they're too clueless to stop downloading crappy tools filled with spywayre, or opening emails that promise to show britney or jho's panties... opefully there are others who'd look at this and say 'who cares' ... Give me some real news...

MOD DOWN PARENT! Troll Fink.le.stein

[Anonymous Coward]

Mod it down. That's a troll, not Seth FinKELSTein.

Re:FP UP MY A$$

[SiliconBateman]

There is an interesting follow-up thread in the Nero Tech Center's message boards. Check it out.