Re: Norton System Works 2007

Well 3 reboots later after installing some new programs (newer Technet etc) and removing Yahoo messenger, Norton System Works has recovered from the errors of earlier.

I do have AVG available, it's the free program and its not a nuisance like Symantec is. I used McAfee earlier but it seems AVG is the least nuisance of the lot when used with the Lavasoft spyware tool. Windows defender came from an antispyware base so in principle it should do something, besides eat up disk space and RAM.

Out of boredom I downloaded known Trojans from here and there and fed them to a debugger. Seems that they are more oriented around IRC and feeding ads from various agencies to make money loading a persons computer with random ads.

The programs also contained key loggers making them potentially hazardous if the computer is using online banking.

The ads are for various products and the beneficiary of the views could be sued for recovery.

The problem, Windows defender does not block these programs at all. AVG and Symantec fail with many of these rogue programs. Lavasoft can detect and remove most of these Trojans

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Well Windows XP SP 3 updated managed to kill my antivirus solution. Norton System Works 2007 Premiere claims its now unlicensed. This means the program locks itself to the OS version and does not respect service updates to the OS.

This is a red flag defect and I am now posting this defect for all to see. Compelling customers who may not be so sophisticated to uninstall and reinstall a program is not acceptable.

The antivirus program continues to run, the error messages simply persist. Restarts do not relieve the problem.

This is curious as the release candidates did not cause any problems, only the RTM update caused the problem. I installed and uninstalled RC 1 and RC 2, IE 8 beta 1 etc. etc. without issue. So it seems Symantec may want to see new versions of their products, even thought clients continue to have valid subscriptions.

This is not surprising to me. Ever since Peter Norton sold the company, Symantec has operated with the view that MS must create programs that are compatible with Symantec's specs, not the other way around. IMHO, a third party program should be responsible for keeping up with the operating systems specs, not the other way around.

One of many reasons I would never have anything made by Symantec on a machine of mine.
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Bruce Hagen
MS - MVP

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