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#1 RJM

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Posted 22 May 2007 - 11:59 AM

An errant update for Norton Antivirus has caused the computers of at least 1,000 users in a China city to crash, several Chinese news sources reported on Monday. According to authorities, the problem was caused by an update on May 18 that accidentally flagged and deleted two essential Windows XP files, causing the system to lock up -- showing the "blue screen of death" -- and fail to reboot.

Experts say that both the traditional and simplified Chinese versions of the Symantec software are affected. The company confirmed that it was aware of the problem and is currently looking into a solution, although no time frame has been given

http://www.betanews.com/article/Norton_Upd...hina/1179784419

#2 XtremeMaC

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Posted 22 May 2007 - 12:29 PM

lol this should be in funny farm

stupid symantec, why not test it first

deleted files hmmm how do they come back if the computer doesn't even boot up, way to go norton.
loving every minute with nod32

maybe symantec is bored and wants to install viruses of its own haha

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#3 nitroshift

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Posted 23 May 2007 - 01:36 AM

Now why doesn't that surprise me?

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Posted 26 May 2007 - 04:26 AM

Ah man i was waiting for something like that to happen to their products just to cheer me up after i saw they bought and discontinued L0PHTCRACK. :ph34r:

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Posted 26 May 2007 - 07:14 AM

hehehehehe :lol:

#6 Thunderbolt 2864

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Posted 30 May 2007 - 01:02 AM

What do you expect from Norton? All products from Norton are complete trash.

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Posted 14 June 2007 - 02:20 AM

not all of there products, there isnt anything wrong with ghost, but then again they didnt make ghost, they just bought out ghost soft.

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Posted 15 June 2007 - 11:23 AM

Norton Ghost in my opinion, is horrible. Its full of bugs and its so slow when I tried to reimage my hard drive. Even one of my partitions wouldn't even boot up when I modified the partition space which I think is bulls***. Proves to me Norton can't do anything right.

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Posted 15 June 2007 - 12:08 PM

nitroshift, on May 23 2007, 01:06 PM, said:

Now why doesn't that surprise me?

lol...yeah...nothing new in this NEWs. :lol:

NOD32 is better ever!

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Posted 15 June 2007 - 10:21 PM

well ive never used ghost 10, ive used ghost 2003, and ghost 8 for ghost casts

#11 Jakebo

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Posted 18 June 2007 - 03:42 PM

For AV I would definantly go with Kaspersky, or NOD32 over Symantec. But Ghost and BackupExec seem to do a pretty good job. At least I don't know of anyone that does it better then Ghost and BackupExcec.