News - Symantec anti-virus update causes BSOD on Win XP

[HEXUS]

Embarrassing episode affecting cherished business customers.

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[DeludedGuy]

Touch wood, not had this issue at my work place...so far.

[3dcandy]

that's an awful picture to use...

[iranu]

If you install malware such as Norton Anti-virus then what else do you expect?

[crossy]

If you install malware such as Norton Anti-virus then what else do you expect?

Hmm, if I'd paid for NAV then I think "do no harm" would be high up my list of expectations.

Thankfully I've been NAV free both @home and @work for years now, and I even managed to avoid any comment about incredulity of running any business critical systems on XP (mainly because I've got an XP VM myself)

[Noli]

Someone should tell these people to that you can get quality antivirus programs like MS Security Essentials, Avast etc etc for free and that they should just give up and stop taking people's money to ruin their computing experience.

Ok ok so I know there is a market for paid AV and that corporates usually can't access free AV but even so, that these guys charge premium rates and still make huge cock ups like this is appalling.

[edvinasm]

Had no issues with Norton products and intend to use it. XP is no longer supported as far as I remember. Tough $hit I would say.
As for free antivirus, am sure they run their business one way or the other. Now tell me how can that be done without any charges directly to a customer? Oh and.. When something goes wrong good luck claiming from them.

[OilSheikh]

It's ironic that businesses still use a pile of crap like Norton. Sigh!

[DeludedGuy]

We use Endpoint, its not actually that bad, it does its job well, lots of functionality, easy to use management console, we have no plans to upgrade or change.

[MrNeil]

Never liked Symantec !!!
One of the reasons as above !!

[Zeven]

I thought Norton have redeemed themselves? That's what I read a few months ago anyway.