Comments on: Symantec details flaws in its antivirus software

Security specialist reveals vulnerabilities in its products that could let hackers attack PCs running the software.

[jachamp]

There is one flaw they left out...

Norton Antivirus is about as buggy a software package as I've ever come across. I urge the people who ask me for help to rip it out of their systems.

And once they do the bulk of their problems mysteriously go away.

[Sir Geek]

Or if you try to upgrade it

We wife had Norton System Works 2004 and it was cheaper to buy the 2005 than to get the new Anti Virus subscription... But the damned thing keeps saying it needs to uninstall the old version but fails. I've removed every key that I can find referencing Norton or Symantec from the Registry but no dice.

We wound up install Avast Antivirus and its nice. Other than lacking the means to kick off a system scan from a bat file or automatically its great. It finds stuff that NSW/AV never found.

[pentium4forever]

AVG

That's why I use AVG, it's free afterall!