Comments on: Symantec hopes to deliver antivirus online

Will slowly move toward supplying consumer applications, like Norton Antivirus and Norton Utilities, as a service.

[heystoopid]

Does It come with?

Say does it come with anti Sony rootkit security prevention software, to plug all the security holes that SONY prefer open?

[sanenazok]

No, but it's...

a fine and dandy ActiveX component. So you need IE with all security settings turned off for it to work.

[grajoe]

oops

Bad Sony... very bad boy! Sony get's my vote for "oops of the year". Who was the knuckle-head that thought this was a good idea?

Message to the music world: Wanna sell more music? Cut the prices in half. Yup, that?s right, half. There are always going to be people that try to get over, as in, steeling music. You can never stop that. But, what you can do is target the otherwise well intentioned middle of the road people. If CDs were 6 bucks, and downloadable songs were 50 cents (no, not ?fidy cent?), they?d double sales in no time. After all, if theft stays at a constant, and you double sales, well then, you?re winning.

[grajoe]

Symantec continues to miss the mark.

It?s surprising to me, that with all the resources at Symantec?s disposal, it continues to miss the mark. In fact, one could say they fail to even hit the target of late.

Norton Utilities has long been considered a legacy product since the release of Microsoft Windows XP almost 5 years ago. Their Security and Antivirus software continues to rate on the bottom of the list against its competitors as far as effectiveness; not to mention it has a serious case of bloatware. One does not have to be a computer Geek to see all of the legacy software still installed in all of Symantec?s products. Old relics of code left behind by lazy, and all too often, over worked programmers.

Also, I believe, now feel free to check me on this one, but you?ll need to be online in order to use an ?online service?. If you?re PC has been infected with even the most minor of Malware, chances are you?re not likely to get online, and if you do, it won?t be reliable enough to run heavy overhead apps such as scanners through what most probably will be a compromised Internet Explorer.

It?s not the delivery vehicle Symantec, it?s the product! People don?t really care if that pizza has free delivery, if it?s bad pizza. Today?s PC users are much younger than they were 10 years ago. And those ?kids? using PCs 10 years ago, are now older, much computer savvy than ever, and certainly much more demanding.

Symantec, very much like IBM, GM, and yes even Microsoft, all have one thing in common: They?ve gotten very wealthy, fat, lazy and old. (Look at the stock value of all of these over the last few years) Not necessarily old in age per say, but in thinking. They?d rather perpetuate, than innovate. Look at Google; it has almost the businessman?s textbook manual for success, the one-two knock-out punch as they say. It?s a killer product, with a winning business model. You could call them the Microsoft of the 21st century, very much like MS was 20 years ago. I guess that?s inevitable, I mean, not even Microsoft is Microsoft anymore. But it doesn?t necessarily have to be. Look at what the iPod has done for Apple. All it takes is the courage to innovate, and a little youth.

Final recommendations: For and all-in-one security suite, look at Trend Micro?s Internet Security Suite 2006. For a great freebe antivirus, look at AVG. Which, by the way, may not be free for very much longer, as Intel has recently invested 10 million in them.

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Trend Micro's product is bad too

It loads your system up with extra processes and most annoyingly pops up a window over the top of whatever you're doing to inform you that it's "updating" shortly after you boot the computer for the first time each day, it also pops you back to that window again as it finishes updating which makes it a double interruption.

What brain-dead person thinks that's acceptable and how many other brain-dead people had to agree in order for that non-feature to be included?