Symantec = A Cry baby sack of shit
| October 8th, 2005Preface: My friend Steve posted this back in… well, whenever this was posted. It’s actually quite out of date at this point, because Symantec actually did one hell of a job improving their Norton AntiVirus product with the latest 2009 release.I still believe they’re a cry baby sack of shit however. Since you’re here, you may wish to read the rest of the awful site, although most of it is me rambling on about how I hate people. Or Jews. Or blacks.
Okay the last few lines were jokes, don’t get your panties in a twist.
This was recently posted on Slashdot and, I’m sorry, am I the only one noticing how much Symantec has been whining lately? This article in addition to their latest annual Security report does nothing but make me laugh as Symantec is simply furthering, in my belief, that their products just simply suck and I do not see them in the future. Their annual report claims to have found Mozilla’s Firefox browser to be more vulnerable than Microsoft’s Internet Exploder…I mean Explorer web browser. Perhaps these findings are true, I’m in no position to disprove them, but I do find it somewhat interesting to note that as Symantec’s security software, including their popular Norton Anti-Virus, continues to decrease in popularity, the adoption of open source software is increasing, but most notably Firefox. Symantec, although never publicly admitting it, had to have been pissed when they realized that the open source community was coming up with innovative products which were not only appealing due to aesthetics and being offered completely free but most importantly because they have addressed a large number of “issues” which were otherwise dominated by Symantec’s security products with little competition with rivaling software company McAfee. McAfee…thanks for keeping your mouth shut and realizing you suck a long time ago. This is a lesson I think Symantec should learn. Although I’m huge on security, hell it’s one of my major’s in college, does Symantec really live in this fairy tale dream that operating systems, much less the internet is going to be this terrible dilapidated mess forever? C’mon, there’s innovation in technology daily, yes, it might be a very long time before improvement, but face it, at this rate if we don’t address these issues at a higher level than using a memory hogging, ineffective, “middle man” product to protect us, computers will become virtually unbearable in a network environment. So boo-friggin’-hoo Symantec. You know, I’m not the biggest MS fan either by any means, but maybe they’re just finally taking responsibility for the flaws you’ve based nearly your entire product line on. Sorry for your stupidity. Maybe if your product worked as your legacy touts you wouldn’t be sitting in this hot water, but you are. And on somewhat of a tangent, I also find it strangely “timely” for them to claim that Apple’s OS X operating system, a market of users it never had a strong stance with, is particularly flawed and that “Mac users are under a false umbrella” of security. Whatever, yeah, OS X isn’t perfect, neither is XP, or Linux for that matter…what makes Symantec’s opinion on software mean anything when their software can hardly even function, let alone protect.
So in conclusion…fuck Symantec
(*note* I still like Ghost 2003…it’s the ONLY exception)
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Steve, though I wholeheartedly agree with you in regards to your many rantings, your many spelling errors make me sad in the pants.
excluding “boo-friggin’-hoo,” this document is free of spelling errors according to Microsoft Word 2003 with all the latest updates (which to my knowledge don’t address the spell checker anyway, but just incase). Although it’s a Microsoft product…so who knows
check it better next time buddy ;-)
and besides as it says in the “about” section, we are not gramatically or politically correct
Actually he wasn’t reffering to this post to be specific. He had read “Things that should not exist,” but didn’t want to be a public dick. I know because he’s a friend of mine. Don’t take it too seriously.
And Dan? The number of hits might have something to do with me having this website linked everywhere on the internet, and now people are finally seeing that there’s something here. That and it’s in my AIM buddy info.
oh god
Steve, I’ve got to agree with you. I still like Ghost, it’s saved my a life a few times. But as for the latest incarnation of Internet Security goes…..this stinking pile of shit has lost me so much work time (and thus, income) while I run this fix or that fix 20 times a week or more to repair an unstable product that when it falls over, completely stops your system from working in any effective way.
Symantec should be ashamed of itself for bringing out a product in such a shoddy condition. I will be going elsewhere shortly.
Understandable, Smiffy. Although to be fair, this article is far out of date.
Fuck Symantec! Very well said. Symantec IS the virus. Symantec tech support is hell on Earth. Great to know that Bush appointed the CEO of Symantec to serve on the National Infrastructure Assurance Council. What a JOKE! Fuck Symantec x 101101000101000111100010100!
I have used symantec ghost. Instead of writing to the destination disk, it wrote on the source disk (overwriting my data). There were 2 people above me checking that we selected the right source and destination disk. This company, man, totally sucks. They are all mentally retarded there.
Nice to know i’m not the omly one sick of symantec . I uninstalled it last night after suffering low preformance for about 8 months. I now feel like i have a new computer. and yes…..symantec SUCKS big time.
After suffering for almost a year trying everything i know i finally concluded that Symantec Endpoint protection 11.0 is the source of my pain. i removed it from my PC and i kept working on it (my PC) for 2 months without any anti virus or anti spy ware installed just the windows defender (Vista Business) and believe or not but i didn’t have any problem, my problems just disappeared.
I’m using now the Microsoft ForeFront Client Security we can use it for free in my company ,it takes the same interface of the windows defender and is working perfectly it’s also light and user friendly
so yes i agree FUCK Symantec