Symantec

Taking a look a round at Slickdeals is always a good way to come up with something that will save you money. It doesn’t matter if it is something related to computing, it is always nice to save money – the savings can then go to some computer related item!
Right now, and until November 11, [...]

By definition, it will be. Crapware has become the term which is used to describe the semi-useless stuff that large PC builders (Dell, HP, Acer, Lenovo, Sony) put on the new computer, hoping to entice the user to buy full versions of the products that are more helpful, and much less annoying than what is [...]

Symantec, destroyer of all things good (Norton Utilities, Central Point Software, XTree Software, and a cast of thousands…) has once again reacted inappropriately to the release of the Microsoft Security Essentials, with a little video, (ostensibly) showing us that free software has a price.
Well, the video is not something that will engross anyone but the [...]

After a short time in beta, where people were making almost magical claims of its powers, the Microsoft Security Essentials will leave the beta moniker behind tonight at midnight, and be available for download.
Since it will be free to all who have legitimate copies of Windows operating systems, I wonder how many people will be [...]

It makes me wonder just how many years the company can put out shoddy software, and trade on the name of fine software that used to be put out by the Peter Norton Company.
Despite the fact that we seem to get at least one story per year, retelling the story of how the Symantec offering [...]

So says the New York Times. The story is that longtime security company McAfee, not a close second, in the market share calculations, is tired of playing second fiddle to industry leader Symantec, who holds a bit over half of the market.
As I stated yesterday, Symantec has built its base largely upon the name recognition [...]

In one of my infrequent stops at PC Magazine, I happened upon the announcement that Symantec, owner of the once respected Norton trademarks, is releasing the newest revisions of its Norton Internet Security and Norton Antivirus products. The products are dubbed 2010, and will be released sometime later this year, probably to coincide with the [...]

In a story from ComputerWorld, the increased attacks occurring on older Windows versions was put forth by Symantec, no doubt hoping to increase the sales of their products, but I wonder if this might not be a coordinated effort.
Why? Because it’s possible, and Microsoft wants the very biggest of wins with the upcoming Windows 7.
Another [...]

Today the company stated that, on corporate networks, slightly over 90 percent of e-mail traffic is spam. (I wonder if that includes edicts from above!)
When I saw that figure, I thought of two things – Is it really bringing the spammers enough revenue to be worthwhile?  Where are the botnets located?
from ComputerWorld
Spammers seem to be [...]

Wow – it might be one of those times when Twitter could have been my friend. While I was writing about Sun, and what might happen, or should happen, Larry Dignan has taken a shot over my bow with the news above.
This must have been one of those hush-hush things, where the principals meet in [...]

Did anyone else catch the Leslie Stahl interview on 60 Minutes last night? Although everything was accurate, I would say that the intensity level was 11 on a scale of 10.
Anyone who might have never worked online before, but was considering it, will never do anything that silly again.
I wasn’t sure what it was that [...]

Back in the days when Peter Norton actually had something to do with the company, Norton computer products, primarily Utilities, but then Antivirus, were the ones to get. Their only serious competition was from Central Point Software, which, unfortunately was bought up by Symantec also.
For several years now, by my reckoning, since 2003, the Norton [...]

Many of the long time users of Microsoft operating systems, or their derivatives, remember back to a time when the name Peter Norton meant power. Power over the operating system and the quirks and mistakes that Microsoft had made.
The mistakes were quickly negotiated, allowing users to make their systems safer and easier to use, the [...]

Lots of chatter is going on about the release of Equipt, the newest of Microsoft’s products to rent us our software. On one side there are the opinions of how it is about time, on the other the gasps of how it is finally, dreadfully, here.
In a small way, Dana Blankenhorn, on ZDNet weighs in, [...]