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Symantec's Genesis to Usher in a New Age of Trust?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the grand-designs dept.

eldavojohn writes "Symantec has announced that they will be creating a massive security package called Genesis. Semantec has set their goal to 'Security 2.0' which is proposed to be 'a new age of trust on the Internet.' From the article: 'Symantec plans a one-stop software service tying together anti-virus, anti-spam, firewall and a host of other PC optimization technologies...' This is certainly something the common computer user could buy instead of having to fork over cash for every component. I don't think I'll be purchasing it though."

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  1. Now if they can get their cpu use down... by ChaoticLimbs · · Score: 4, Informative

    Symantec and Norton antivirus and security packages (on machines I have experience with) use an absurd amount of memory and processor resources. Any hope that this will change someday?

    1. Re:Now if they can get their cpu use down... by WhiteWolf666 · · Score: 5, Informative

      I can't think of one major software package that has reduced bloat over the years.

      OS X, for one.

      KDE, during major versions, for two. 3.2 was faster than 3.1, 3.5 is way faster than 3.4, or 3.2

      There's a school of software development that involves making your software leaner and meaner as it "ages".

      New versions are more bloated. New revisions are LESS bloated.

      --
      WhiteWolf666 an exBush supporter. All you new-school,compassionate,save the children Republicans can rot in hell
  2. What useless crap by RyoShin · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have unyielding hate for Symantec. I've spent countless hours trying to get their products to properly allow connectivity for various programs for other people, and even more hours uninstalling it after it wouldn't listen to my yelling.

    Nothing Symantec has is good, or can't be replaced by a free alternative.

    Anti-Virus? AntiVir (If you want to pay, they have a premium version, too)
    Firewall? SP2 comes with a moderate firewall that works well. There are a good deal of free firewall programs out there, not to mention that many routers now have some sort of firewall software on them.
    Ad-aware and MAS have taken care of any spyware problems I've had to deal with (except for some of the really evil ones.)

    Any and everything else can be taken care of by good judgement and learning some PC common sense. Don't arbitrarily accept downloads that IE pops up with. Don't open every attachment that claims to be a dancing Ronald McDonald. Don't listen to every e-mail propogated by the feces of the internet that various programs in your windows folder are viruses.

    There is absolutely no need to pay $100 for Symantec's horrible piece of crap. People would be better off without it.