Bah Nortons gone for product activation

[The PIT]

Doesn't look like I'll buying any more of their products then.

[Admiral]

There's always gonna be a crack for this sort of crap.

[Rob(QG)]

They seem to be watching the P2P networks, too, as I have heard of several people that have had letters for sharing the cracked versions.

Just got f-prot at work (needed a command line scanner for mimesweeper) - now that's a good deal - $50 for ten (only actually needed one, but still) licenses with updates for a year. In quantity it's $2 a license

[thop]

I use BitDefender.

[Tom]

Originally posted by Admiral
There's always gonna be a crack for this sort of crap.

There is already...
keysgens and activation by fake modem connection...

[Technoid]

Already had a run in with a beta of this

Something had made a file "wanish" and the "production activation" software had notided that, deactivated NAV and said that because it had detected licencing tampering, it wouldent work untill NAV was reinstalled with a new licence

Great, a virus only have to kill a file and NAV will "selfdestruct"

Anyone guess how long untill a virus/worm that uses this attacks?

[Chrono_Wanderer]

SoonTM

[Gurm]

Just use AVG. Norton has NOTHING to offer the world right now.

- Gurm

[Jammrock]

when they started charging for yearly virus update subscriptions I decided I wouldn't buy their stuff anymore. Except Ghost. They haven't %&#*'ed up Ghost yet.

Jammrock

[isochar]

www.nod32.com Anti-Virus
www.sygate.com Firewall (I prefer Kaspersky Anti-Hacker though)
www.v-com.com Fix-It Utilties

[Paulr]

Yes, damn Norton!!
How dare they try and stop theiving scum from stealing their software.
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!!!

[DukeP]

I actually find that the 140,- dkr is a fair price to pay for regular bidaily updates.

Some of my other software comes with yearly updates, that cost close to 1200.-dkr!!
~~DukeP~~

[DentyCracker]

Took long enuf for the holier than thou response to come through

[Technoid]

Originally posted by Paulr
Yes, damn Norton!!
How dare they try and stop theiving scum from stealing their software.
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!!!

Urghhhhh

There is always someone who sadly has missed the point!

As usual with anti piracy stuff like WPA (or NPA as this could be called ) this won't anoy the real pirates only the real customers who buys the software!!

Norton has declared that all thir customers are thiefs and not trusted

[DentyCracker]

Exactly technoid. I bought XP but run a hacked version that does not include need activation. I also pay for KAV. If I were using an antivirus that used activation I would be very afraid of precisely what you mentioned above.