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Symantec Anti-Virus Supresses Privacy Tool

Posted by timothy on from the could-be-an-unfortunate-mistake dept.

salimfadhley writes "Symantec's 'Norton Antivirus' now attempts to remove Freegate, a program designed to help Chinese internet users view websites blocked by the government firewalls. Symantec offered no reason why the program (which is not spyware) was marked as a 'trojan' in Chinese versions of the software, however even an unattuned conspiracy theorist will guess that this was done at the request of the Chinese government. "

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  1. I for one welcome our new... awww forget it by macz · · Score: 3, Funny

    The thing about Chinese Virus Scanners. After an hour you are still infected and need to scan again.

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    ...But I digress. TREMBLE PUNY HUMANS!ONE DAY MY SPECIES WILL DESTROY YOU ALL!