Bah Nortons gone for product activation

[Gurm]

Yup. It was cracked within hours of being finished. The only people "hurt" by activation are legitimate users.

Trillian is having a MAJOR problem right now because it "phones home" every time it starts up to authorize you. This means you can't run it offline, behind a firewall, or from multiple machines.

And the users feel like they're being treated like criminals, because within 15 MINUTES of the program's release, a crack was on Bit Torrent, meaning that the "antipiracy" nature of authorization was a joke, and the ONLY people who were being kept off the network due to it are LEGITIMATE USERS.

- Gurm

[Jammrock]

How dare they charge you a whole £12 for a years worth of updates to protect your machine from those nasty virus's!
Damn them to hell!!!

Yes, please do damn them to an eternity in hellfire and brimstone.

Network Associates McAfee Antivirus does not require year subscription fees to gain access to their new antivirus definitions. And as far as I know, Norton is the ONLY one that requires it. It's pretty damn low to say, "oh no no no, you only bought the PROGRAM, the virus definitions are EXTRA." What a giant load of festering dog crap.

I too have a legal license of Winblows XP, but use a hacked corporate edition so I don't have to sign over my personal information to M$.

Don't assume that just because people use a hacked version of the software that they don't legally own a copy.

Jammrock

[The PIT]

How good is fix it Utilities????

I can get Mcafee seven for free from work. Been running for ages at work without any problems. Seems to let your operating system work without any problems unlike earlier versions.

That just leaves a firewall. Zonealarm is definatley out. Whats Agnitum Outpost Personal Firewall Pro 2 like???

Another reason why a little cauitous about Nortons is like Sophos it's seems to have problems detecting the Nachi worm. I saw two machines last week with updated Nortons that didn't detected it all. Sophos fails to detect it 99% of the time which is worrying.

XP activation doesn't bother me becuase again I get it for free and therefore no activation crap.

[Jammrock]

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&postid=425305#post425305

[The PIT]

Ooops

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33097.html

[Technoid]

Originally posted by The PIT
Ooops

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33097.html

Software seems to becomming more and more rushed and buggy for every day

[Jammrock]

Symantec has gone to Schite ever since Mr. Norton stopped working for them.

JAmmrock

[The PIT]

Same old story. More bloated therefore more buggy. Deadlines to meet so finding the bugs is left to the user.

[Umfriend]

I still have 20 days b4 I need to activate my XP. Do I really ned to give out personal info for that? I thought it just took the product code alojg with some numbers from hardware and that MS would send you the activation cpode?? :?:

[Technoid]

no, not the first time

[[GDI]Raptor]

I don't get the problem here, when I buy software from a large vendor like Microsoft and Symantec, I have no prolems doing this activation

[High_Jumbllama]

@GDI,

Whether or not you are right if activation only hurts the good people who would follow the rules anyway and not even hurt the people stealing then all it does is irritate and piss off the good people. It will not curb piracy. Bye, bye Norton.

First the Office integration problems, then the frequent access permission issues and now this.

[The PIT]

Yeh I keep getting errors from Nortons Anti-Virus that it cannot read subscription details and needs admin priviliges. Fine I'm am the administator. Nortons solution didn't work.

[roadie]

Lol this is a thread from the dead but it seems that Norton are cracking down on cracked versions of their software, does anyone have any suggestions for a new not bloated (ie not norton) anti virus and firewall package? AVG 7 and Kerio are doing a package for £30, should I go for that one?

[Taz]

AVG is free for personal use, so why not use that and Zone Alarm