Re: Another "Bash" on Symantec

From: Leythos (void_at_nowhere.lan)
Date: 01/08/05


Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 23:19:32 GMT

In article <yAXDd.863$C52.154@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com says...
> For anyone who doubts that Symantec Security software is:
> (1.) Ineffective
> (2.) Bloated (High system requirements)
> (3.) Overpriced
> (4.) Non-existent Technical Support (With paying up $)
> I now have a whole room full of relatives who can backup those
> descriptions.
>
> To anyone on this newsgroup whom I ever recommended any
> Symantec product - I sincerely apologize.

I happen to use and install and love Symantec Corporate Edition
products, but I can't understand why any knowledgeable person would
install a suite like NIS without checking out reports about it.

I would never install NIS and would also remove it from every computer I
could find, being permitted. I would run NAV 2005 or Corporate Edition 9
on any computer.

Like your experience, I've installed enough NAV 2004 and 2005 and Corp
Edition to know what it does, how it works, and that I have not found
anything better. I've taken known infected machines, run all the normal
AV scanners on them in safe mode, then come back and installed NAV +
Updates (from CD) and found more. I have never had a PC with NAV/CE
compromised and we check on a regular basis against AVG and others on
select machines.

I do, completely, agree that NIS is a lousy product and full of bloat.

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