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Microsoft Anti-Spyware Removes Norton Anti-Virus
An anonymous reader writes "According to a story over at Washingtonpost.com, the latest definitions file for Microsoft's Anti-Spyware beta flags Symantec's Norton Antivirus products as a password-stealing trojan and prompts users to delete portions of the program. Users who follow the instructions hose their installation of Norton, requiring delicate Windows registry edits and a complete removal/reinstall of Norton. Microsoft's support forum is quickly filling up with complaints about this problem, many from businesses that have been pretty hard hit. This should be a cautionary tale about deploying beta products in production environments."
Norton could be described as spyware. Norton assumes your system is there to do nothing but run Norton.
MS Antispyware isn't useless after all!
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Who ever rolled out a beta product in a business environment deserves be publically flogged, shamed, tarred and feathered. And then they should lose their jobs and never be able to do anything more then service a commodore 64.
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I havn't RTFM since it won't load here at work, but how in the world does something like that happen accidentally?
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Shouldn't it be the other way round?
For once MS did something right. If only it removed Norton and installed AVG...
Norton AV 200$ continues to be total crap, may every rep from Symantec who bitchs about this have to spend a month only working on systems that have been hosed by their very own horrible AV package.
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"This should be a cautionary tale about deploying beta products in production environments."
Then how are we supposed to use Microsoft products? I thougt all Microsofts products was more or less beta.
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install DOJ's Anti-Trust© to remove the offending product. Of course, it has been a little buggy since the Jan 2001 release.
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and make their anti-spyware utility remove Windows.
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Hmmm..must go stop everyone using most of Google's stuff then.
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Yes. It's called "obscurity".
If it sucks up all the system resources, it does guarantee that viruses have no CPU cycles, so it is technically anti-virus...
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Just because these products must use continuous system resources doesn't mean they need all of them. That would kind of defeat the purpose of having a computer.
But the purpose of having a computer is to run anti virus software, spy ware detectors, and firewalls. Between running those tools and updating the system there is not much time or resources for anything else.