can i ask, specifically, why you dislike norton?
my old man works DoD and swears by it...
but these are work pcs behind major security from the start....
In the government scene, Software, just like weapons, it's made by the lowest bidder. Norton is just good with corporate institutions because they can offer 'skeleton keys' to clients. Norton has been around for a long time, it's just simply brand recognition at this point.
Norton is a joke really, they pop out "hacker alerts" for simple things like port scanning. So some random 10 year old kid does a ping all across a whole wide range of ip addresses and Norton will block a simple ping but give it's user a "I blocked a hacker gimme an attaboy!".
They use fear to make it's users feel better and sometimes it works.
Norton has so many vulnerabilites they can send a random exploit code and it shut down and crashes the firewall. It's like a fat security cop.
The code of the program has gotten so big over the years that it basically needs a rewrite, but it's a cash cow.
cant we nominate you as a resident "tech guru?"
got MY vote
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Thanks for the kind words, I just want to offer my advice, they're having a war against us and arresting us for non-violent things where there are no victims, fuck them. Of course if the government wants to hack some of us they will succeed, but let's not make it financially sound for most of the cases.
