Symantec accused of using 'scareware' tactics to sell full-version products - GoFuckYourself.com

u-Bob · 01-11-2012, 02:51 PM

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/symant...products/66812

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Security firm Symantec is being taken to court over claims that the company?s flagship anti-malware and performance software suites mislead consumers into buying full versions of its products.

The suit, which seeks class action status, was brought by Washington state resident James Gross. It was filed in the District Court of San Jose, California on Tuesday on behalf of his lawyers, according to Reuters.

The complaint alleges that misleading ?scare? tactics are being used by Symantec in its Norton Utilities, PC Tools Registry Mechanic, and PC Tools Performance Toolkit products. The claims also suggest the software range always report harmful errors, privacy risks and other issues that exist, regardless of whether they actually exist.

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While the lawsuit will likely go Symantec?s way, it is nevertheless been a bad month for the security firm.

A Symantec spokesperson said it was ?aware? of the allegations made, but declined to offer additional comment at the time of publication.

Barefootsies · 01-11-2012, 03:21 PM

Nothing new there.

It's went on in the past, present, and someone else will re-hash it in the future Y2K.

Deej · 01-11-2012, 03:23 PM

Symantec has always been a garbage product. Free shit is better than Symantec.

ottopottomouse · 01-11-2012, 07:55 PM

all antivirus programs go absolutely mental finding threats when your subscription is running out.

JustJ · 01-11-2012, 08:33 PM

Symantec is garbage. I remember when norton used to add bytes to each file it scanned... horrible..

2MuchMark · 01-11-2012, 08:55 PM

I hate them too. Too aggressive when it came to sales, and software so fat and bloated I turned it off half the time just to gain some speed back.

u-Bob · 01-12-2012, 03:39 AM

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software so fat and bloated I turned it off half the time just to gain some speed back.

True. I still remember AtGuard. A great piece of software. It was one of the first useful personal firewalls. Effective and required almost no system resources. The entire install file was about 4 megs. Symantec bought it and turned it into Norton Internet Security back in 2000. The first release of the new and improved Atguard as released by Symantec was 80+ megs and had all useful config options removed.

travs · 01-12-2012, 07:44 AM

reminds me of james mcreary of asnetworks

01-11-2012, 03:21 PM	#2
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