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Symantec Labels Vicars' Software as Spyware

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the should-fight-back-with-the-vicars'-machine-gun dept.

ukhackster writes "The curse of Norton Antivirus has struck again. This time, Britain's vicars have been hit. Norton mistook a legitimate file for a piece of spyware, and those who followed the instructions found that their sermon-writing application no longer worked. Norton was once an essential application. Is it turning into a joke?"

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  1. Norton? McAfee? by Colin+Smith · · Score: 0, Troll

    What are these strange things you speak of?

    find / -name \*norton\* 2> /dev/null

    Nope, nothing. Can't be very essential.

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