A Bad Week for Symantec

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."

Comments

Re:How much will it take?

[El Lobo]

Idiot.

Not nearly as bad as the week was for the BBC:

[gd23ka]

Mod me up, mod me down, tell me to shutup or give me nazi looks and frown.. Since slashdot
isn't going to carry this voluntarily we'll just have to find a place for it..
and talking of having a bad week this certainly sounds like a valid venue.

If you think Symantec had a bad week, you should stick a finger into the hot
water the BBC is boiling in right now as I'm typing this:

First they report the "collapse" of WTC7 26 minutes too early with the building
still visible in the interview .. then on monday that was discovered and exposed ..
and then all they could come up with was a lame excuse they lost the tapes they
had of their 911 coverage.

All in all it was also a very busy week for video.google.com and youtube deleting
the videos exposing this maximum faux pas.

But don't take my word for it and instead check out the facts yourself:

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=bbc+wtc+7

You can read the BBC's official reply here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/02/part _of_the_conspiracy.html

Here's an excerpt from that reply:
4. We no longer have the original tapes of our 9/11 coverage (for reasons of cock-up, not conspiracy). So if someone has got a recording of our output, I'd love to get hold of it. We do have the tapes for our sister channel News 24, but they don't help clear up the issue one way or another.

5. If we reported the building had collapsed before it had done so, it would have been an error - no more than that. As one of the comments on You Tube says today "so the guy in the studio didn't quite know what was going on? Woah, that totally proves conspiracy... "

They (THE BBC!) says lost their tapes of the 911 coverage and they'd like you to help them out.

Another interesting fact you should keep in mind is that buildings can not be "pulled" or
demolished by explosive within mere hours. It can't be done in one sunny afternoon, it takes
at least a week of careful planning and preparation.

Re:Not nearly as bad as the week was for the BBC:

[gd23ka]

Hi there,

Let's go viral then :-)

help me out with a little karma here? Copy my post and it repost it & link back to the original?
If they shoot that down down go and recruit new people to put it up again?

Regards
G

Re:How much will it take?

[tb3]

Google something like "Apache vs IIS", or "email exploits in Linux" or "open ports in OS X" or "botnets" or "Nimba" or "Code Red".
Use what little brains you have.