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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. Don't like Symantec? Try an alternative... by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 4, Informative

    AVG Antivirus is a great alternative to Symantec's Norton AntiVirus.

    It's free for home users, has a memory-resident scanner, scheduled updates, limited scheduled scans and doesn't bog down your system with unnecessary crap like the Norton or Mcafee anti-virus programs.

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    "Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."