Symantec sticks Microsoft with law suit...

Trying to halt Vista...

Published on May 19, 2006 By RPGFX In Microsoft

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An aritcle on www.pcworld.com talks about Symantec suing Mircosoft to stop development of Vista...

Comments (Page 1)

Adamness

on May 19, 2006

I bet Symantec bought Veritas just so they could sue Microsoft.

Dr Guy

on May 19, 2006

I bet Microsoft loses again. They steal and then pay.

starkers

on May 19, 2006

Symantec are only doing this cos they're scared of competition from MS's Vista security measures....hope they lose big time.

sTonEbLuE

on May 19, 2006

Symantec are only doing this cos they're scared of competition from MS's Vista security measures....hope they lose big time.

Island Dog

on May 19, 2006

Someone should sue Symantec for making such terrible software.

Jafo

on May 19, 2006

MS can always counter-sue Symantec for its propensity to disable [permanently] the BITS requiring a full re-install of SP2 to recover it....

If MS needs financial assistance...I'll happily donate my dumped NAV subscription that is still current.

starkers

on May 19, 2006

Someone should sue Symantec for making such terrible software.

Too true....a WW Class action of all who suffered broken BITS. And no, Bichur, that doesn't include broken throbbers....sorry.

Hopefully MS will have he last laugh and make Symantec products 'non-compatible wih system 32 applications' in Vista.

speedy5662

on May 19, 2006

Symantec Products SUCK.....It's proven by me and anyone who has the smarts to use AVG.. I know a really huge software maker that is facing a potential lawsuit for incorporating a virus into their software and they are in denial of this because "we use norton a.v. professional"

It's so funny that people fall for symantec's bullsh** AV or anything made by them.

GO Microsoft!!!!!!!!!!! <<<<< You'll never see that from me again!!! Unless MS can do something right from here on...LOL

Speedy

StephanA

on May 20, 2006

Jafo

I suffered broken BITS. Do I un-install SP2 and then re-install? Anything that I have to watch not to screw-up the system?

Advice would be appreciated.

Jafo

on May 20, 2006

StephanA ...I can't remember if I uninstalled it then re-installed....[probably did].

I'd tried the sequence of repairs listed on a site link back then...you know...try this...if it doesn't work try the next [more complex step]...if not then...etc.

Final solution after a half dozen 'if nots' was reinstall SP2...

So I did, and it worked just fine....

I'll try to find the old thread...

Jafo

on May 20, 2006

https://www.wincustomize.com/forums.aspx?SID=1&AID=81379

That's the one....bit of a 'saga'...

StephanA

on May 20, 2006

Many thanks, Jafo. First, a bit of reading.

George Rogers Jr

on May 21, 2006

Thank GOD I'm privy to this website...I just about bought the Norton Suite package - AV/Spyware/Ghost the works! Thx Paul - you saved me alot of unnecessary HEADACHES!!

Zoomba

on May 21, 2006

Symantec's consumer line of products is absolute crap... I've had a number of systems hosed by SystemWorks, AV, and even the old Norton Utilities. My experiences with Symantec since around 2000 though have been with their corporate AV client, which seems to behave a LOT better.

That said, I finally got sick of even that after having to deal with Symantec so much at work (I work in the security area, so we have a lot of symantec crap to deal with and the company can be a real b*tch to work with) I dumped SAV 10 Corporate edition on my home PC and picked up a copy of Kaspersky AV. If you ever go and look at the charts comparing McAfee, Symantec and Kaspersky, you'll see Kaspersky in the lead in terms of how quickly new viruses are blocked and how many files it can scan that the others can't (i.e. .rar files). Also got a chance to chat with a Kaspersky engineer, and the dude was WAY more knowledgeable than his Symantec counterpart. I was very impressed.

sa33od

on May 21, 2006

I agree with the idea of Symantec being scared of the next gen W-Vista security system. I've did many web searches and many other testing on Vista Beta 1, and I must tell you that the security and virus detection of Windows Vista beats anything I have ever seen until now! Symantec intentionally produces products that are not complete in order to let you buy the full package; if the anti-virus detects and deletes a virus then one of the registry files is gone so you have to go buy another symantec product that restores lost files, then you go and buy that product and find out that the lose of that registry file has opened a way for spy-ware to enter your PC, so you go back again to buy a Symantec product that kills spy-wares! and the band keeps playing the song!!

I even tired comparing Vista to Mac's new edition and I found out that compared to how many code lines are involved in creating Vista (Vista has 4 times more codes than Mac), I think that Windows Vista is going to be a major shift in the history of Computer security and protection; And in his last 15 minutes interview, Bill Gates assures people that Vista is what all of the PC users have been waiting for since Windows 95! He even claims that the level of protection in Windows Vista is going to be monitored and updated minute by minute through a specialized team of virus and spy-ware programmers all for free! (Of course after buying the OS it self).

So, Symantec surely has got some sand in their butt holes, where it itches them so much to the point that they can't handle it anymore; such losers deserve a punch in their faces from Microsoft, inside the courts of law, which will happen eventually.

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