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A Bad Week for Symantec

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the seen-better-days dept.

Evan Hughes writes "NeoSmart Technologies has published a scathing editorial regarding 3 high-profile mistakes by Symantec Corp. — all in less than a week. In what seems to be a string of stupid mistakes culminating in the infection of CNN-parent Turner Broadcasting Systems by Rinbot— a virus dedicated to the eradication of Symantec from the known world."

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  1. maybe... by User+956 · · Score: 5, Funny

    NeoSmart Technologies has published a scathing editorial regarding 3 high-profile mistakes by Symantec Corp. -- all in less than a week

    Maybe they're not mistakes... maybe it's just a form of viral marketing.

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  2. Symantec - semantics by L.+VeGas · · Score: 5, Funny

    a virus dedicated to the eradication of Symantec from the known world

    That's not a virus. That's a feature.

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  3. Re:AVG by nsayer · · Score: 4, Funny
    every reboot or once a day which ever comes first.

    Since we're talking about Windows machines, I can tell you for certain which comes first.