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Company concedes AV fails to catch majority of malicious attacks in circulation.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/05/antivurus-pioneer-symantec-declares-av-dead-and-doomed-to-failure/
We all knew this
Digger
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That was a few years back but now Symantec is facing a suit about if they own the IP.
http://www.worldipreview.com/news/us-university-starts-patent-battle-with-symantec
In short, they don't.
Bob
I used them for years without problems but could see the cracks. I went with free AV and has worked well so far.
Dafydd.
a few years back, 07' I think. Norton was controlling my computer, not me. I couldn't go to half of the web sites I wanted to.
A lot of folks come here complaining they can't get on the net and a Lot of times it's due to some Norton stuff.
I read another article where Android phones are being attacked by the FBI virus, I wonder who's gonna tackle that? Norton?
Digger
All those yrs. moaning about Norton this or that and it comes to this. To be honest, the malware game is all about the latest attack and its gets darn right fancy, especially since big money from Eastern Bloc regions that hire or worse have the talent going at it. Just another notch in someone's AV game. Of course, I found Norton just too arny to contain as it gets itself into troubles it seems.
tada ------Willy 
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