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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Product Activation doesn't work.

[Seth Finklestein]

Hi, folks. I'm Seth Finklestein.

As most of you know, concerns about privacy on the Internet have been growing. More than 45% of users now run a personal firewall. Of those, more than 80% are "very concerned" when a seemingly non-Internet-related application such as a disk diagnosis tool starts sending packets across the firewall.

The fact of the matter is, people will steal Symantec's products if they want to. It's just like in the movie and music industries: people have the right to download whatever they want, and the right to choose whether the content creators deserve compensation. It's very sad that Symantec doesn't trust its users who have made the conscious decision to send them money.

For that reason, I will continue to liberate Symantec's products off of KaZaA Plus, and I urge all of my followers to do the same.

Re:Honest users the victims

[saden1]

I just did a technote on product activation for one of our products, and in it I said it will cause more problems than solve. Our product isn't consumer product so I asked why do it in the first place (may because it will costs 3-4 million to purchase, guessing here). Also told them that once it is out of our hands any determined individual can compromise our product by doing memory profiling.

Now I'm I going to make the decision to incorporate product activation in our product? No!!!!! The business people will make those decision.

Re:Honest users the victims

[Dun Malg]

Just like XP, you have to let your machine either contact Adobe over the internet, or phone their customer service number to get the activation code that's locked to your individual computer.

Heh. How long do you think it'll take for someone to come up with an activation code keygen? Honestly, do they really think this stuff works?