Re: KB918419 failure? Check your antispy program for BHO blocking.


"Stewart" <noemail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ou78c29mtidv7pqe37r257tplhc0gmkgq6@xxxxxxxxxx
"Noel Paton" <NoelDPspamless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Try entering the names of any anti-virus software (McAfee, AVG, Avast,
PC-cillin, and so on) into that same support site and you will see
similar articles - most talking about similar issues. Comprehensive
anti-virus software is complex stuff. As such, any anti-virus program
is going to have problems occasionally. Norton AV is no more prone to
this than any other similar product.


of which about 10,400 are for NAV specifically
http://www.google.co.uk/search?num=50&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&rls=GGLG%2CGGLG%3A2005-46%2CGGLG%3Aen&q=%22Norton+Anti-Virus%22+site%3Asupport.microsoft.com&meta=


And would you care to guess what percentage that is of the total
number of Norton AV users? I don't know myself. However, I do know
that Norton AV is the number one selling anti-virus software, which
suggests their customer base likely numbers into the tens of millions
world-wide.




Current numbers apparently are that Norton/Symantec has 53% of the AV market - how much the AV market constitutes of the total software market, I don't know - but it's certainly not more that 10%!!
People have a right to expect that the brand-leader in any market is a notch above the competition in things other than 'breaking my PC' and 'disallowing my System restore' Everyone else could fix their problems with SR - why couldn't Norton/Symantec?

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