Virtually the exact same scenario here. Company was sold and new executives made me remove Norton Corporate AV and their servers pushed out TM Enterprise. Within a week half of our 40 workstations had that "SuperDuper Antivirus 2009" crap.
Last August, I fixed a friends laptop that had TM on it, it would totally freeze at random for 20 to 30 seconds. Took ten days of email back and forth with those jerks before someone called and just said "uncheck the box that says blah-blah" - Heres a snip from one of their techs:
Me:
The only file related to the Old Antivirus is a text file named your_symantec_key.txt, so of course it cannot do anything, the contents were one line of text like "BEBF456BEDRWSA2WYTEST5EREBVCD", nothing else.
TM:
This is Richard from Trend Micro Consumer Support. Please do remove that folder of Symantec and after which please restart your computer and check if problem still exist.
Me:
I removed it and of course the error remains. Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
TM:
It's me Richard from Trend Micro Consumer Support.
I have rechecked the logs that you sent to us. And as what I can see, the thing that is causing this problem of slowness is the memory of that computer is too low.
Me:
What are you saying? - earlier today I told you that the computer has 1 Gigabyte of memoey and you told me that it is not a memory issue, so now it is again ? The computer is NOT slow, it randomly freezes as I have stated many times, with your product removed, it does not freeze. Please read what I am saying - Your product is making this computer freeze.
This went on and on for 23 EMails, unbelievable. Hijack This is a useful tool, their AV should not ever be used by anyone.
Why should routine health care not be a personal responsibility like anything else in life?
This also might break the strange connection between health insurance and work...which often today, ties one to a job for people that are worried about changing jobs and jeopardizing benefits.
Does "routine" include my wife falling and tearing her rotator cuff ? approximately $60,000 later, it is now pretty much fixed. Of course, I had insurance so the 60K that was billed became $8800, but it was made very clear to me when I asked, that without health insurance, the billed amount would be expected. I don't understand how 60 grand becomes less than 9 grand just because I had insurance.
If this is anything like the small Ryobi saw I have, you must assemble it before using. The Manual has countless warnings about using the tool safely, you get to hold the blade in your hands and see the sharp nasty teeth, surely it is obvious that this equipment can hurt you. Once it is assembled and it is turned on, the sound it makes is obviously a sound that should alert you again that you better respect this tool. There is a standing rule here at my house, if you need me or there is a phone call for me or whatever, if the saw is running, do not even open the door to the garage until the saw is off. Same thing applies to routers and many other tools. It's not very difficult to use a table saw safely but it is a tiny bit less efficient ASSUMING you dont mangle a body part. I see contractors with those saws with no blade guard or kickback pawls and just shake my head, the same guys that disable the blade guard on their Skilsaws.
What if all saws are mandated to use saw stop and someone bypasses it electrically and then gets hurt ? Sue saw stop for making their technology bypassable ? This is absurd........
If you are Mr. Bad Guy and you MUST have the document that ensures you world domination, having it encrypted won't make you look for an easier target. A home burglar might, but he/she is just looking for something of value, not something so specific. Good encryption makes the bad guy say "screw this" after his network of quad core boxes gets no results after 2 weeks/whatever time period of churning.
You are spot on - I've had both extremes of bosses, one whose philosophy was "If you can't do the job you can't work here and if you can I need to stay out of your way since I can only hinder you", while the other somehow managed to interfere with everyone in the company all day long, and especially the ones that were doing things he had no understanding of at all (bookkeeping and plant maintenance). Needless to say I lasted about 6 weeks there and 10+ years at the former, till the boss retired and sold the company.
Strings is available from sysinternals. If you ask me, it's cute and funny when MS-Bashers put their foot in their mouths before doing any research to back up their snide comments.
Seems amazing that anyone actually thought CNN was suddenly sending them a top ten, with headlines that were mostly not quite right. Sheesh people, read before you click.
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Don't post as AC, get a nickname. Maybe something with "pompous" in it is available.
Virtually the exact same scenario here. Company was sold and new executives made me remove Norton Corporate AV and their servers pushed out TM Enterprise. Within a week half of our 40 workstations had that "SuperDuper Antivirus 2009" crap.
Last August, I fixed a friends laptop that had TM on it, it would totally freeze at random for 20 to 30 seconds. Took ten days of email back and forth with those jerks before someone called and just said "uncheck the box that says blah-blah" - Heres a snip from one of their techs: Me: The only file related to the Old Antivirus is a text file named your_symantec_key.txt, so of course it cannot do anything, the contents were one line of text like "BEBF456BEDRWSA2WYTEST5EREBVCD", nothing else. TM: This is Richard from Trend Micro Consumer Support. Please do remove that folder of Symantec and after which please restart your computer and check if problem still exist. Me: I removed it and of course the error remains. Any other suggestions would be appreciated. TM: It's me Richard from Trend Micro Consumer Support. I have rechecked the logs that you sent to us. And as what I can see, the thing that is causing this problem of slowness is the memory of that computer is too low. Me: What are you saying? - earlier today I told you that the computer has 1 Gigabyte of memoey and you told me that it is not a memory issue, so now it is again ? The computer is NOT slow, it randomly freezes as I have stated many times, with your product removed, it does not freeze. Please read what I am saying - Your product is making this computer freeze. This went on and on for 23 EMails, unbelievable. Hijack This is a useful tool, their AV should not ever be used by anyone.
If you are at work, it's not your inbox.
Gee where have I heard that before. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOX-y_Lady
Why should routine health care not be a personal responsibility like anything else in life?
This also might break the strange connection between health insurance and work...which often today, ties one to a job for people that are worried about changing jobs and jeopardizing benefits.
Does "routine" include my wife falling and tearing her rotator cuff ? approximately $60,000 later, it is now pretty much fixed. Of course, I had insurance so the 60K that was billed became $8800, but it was made very clear to me when I asked, that without health insurance, the billed amount would be expected. I don't understand how 60 grand becomes less than 9 grand just because I had insurance.
1, Do they believe in God? 2, Can we have sex with them?
(Yeah, I know, it's a bacteria.)
3. Can we eat them - No, so who cares ?
The next firmware update will deliver a painful shock if you hold the phone "wrong" - problem solved...
If this is anything like the small Ryobi saw I have, you must assemble it before using. The Manual has countless warnings about using the tool safely, you get to hold the blade in your hands and see the sharp nasty teeth, surely it is obvious that this equipment can hurt you. Once it is assembled and it is turned on, the sound it makes is obviously a sound that should alert you again that you better respect this tool. There is a standing rule here at my house, if you need me or there is a phone call for me or whatever, if the saw is running, do not even open the door to the garage until the saw is off. Same thing applies to routers and many other tools. It's not very difficult to use a table saw safely but it is a tiny bit less efficient ASSUMING you dont mangle a body part. I see contractors with those saws with no blade guard or kickback pawls and just shake my head, the same guys that disable the blade guard on their Skilsaws. What if all saws are mandated to use saw stop and someone bypasses it electrically and then gets hurt ? Sue saw stop for making their technology bypassable ? This is absurd........
If you are Mr. Bad Guy and you MUST have the document that ensures you world domination, having it encrypted won't make you look for an easier target. A home burglar might, but he/she is just looking for something of value, not something so specific.
Good encryption makes the bad guy say "screw this" after his network of quad core boxes gets no results after 2 weeks/whatever time period of churning.
You are spot on - I've had both extremes of bosses, one whose philosophy was "If you can't do the job you can't work here and if you can I need to stay out of your way since I can only hinder you", while the other somehow managed to interfere with everyone in the company all day long, and especially the ones that were doing things he had no understanding of at all (bookkeeping and plant maintenance). Needless to say I lasted about 6 weeks there and 10+ years at the former, till the boss retired and sold the company.
Strings is available from sysinternals. If you ask me, it's cute and funny when MS-Bashers put their foot in their mouths before doing any research to back up their snide comments.
Seems amazing that anyone actually thought CNN was suddenly sending them a top ten, with headlines that were mostly not quite right. Sheesh people, read before you click.
This is hyperbole or ignorance. replace "or" with "and"