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by Red Rat on Mon Dec 06, 2004 at 10:08:12 AM PDT

I ran Symantech AV for 1 year. When the subscription expired I decided not to renew and instead put McCaffe AV version 4.5 on (we get this licensed to us for home use where I work). When I install McAffee, it found two virus infected files! This using Version 4.5! Needless to say I came away very unimpressed with Symantech AV. BTW, I updated virus signatures on a daily basis, at least this what Live Update was supposed to do--but based on comments here, who knows. It is sad, but in the past days when it was the Norton utilities it was a good company but I guess when you get bigger and become the 700 lb canary, you don't have to care anymore. It seems that we are moving into an era of "let's sell them crap and they will love it". Oddly, it seems to be working!

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