Symantec HackIsWack contest packs in Symantec's hapless HackIsWack cybercrime rap competition came to a close on Thursday, with 180 entries. The rap competition had the worthwhile aim of raising cybercrime awareness, but will chiefly be remembered for the farcical antics on its dedicated macro-site, hackiswack.com. Interested parties quickly discovered that …
Only someone who hasn't had Norton Internet Security inflicted upon them would call it "bugger all else". Indeed, it slows your computer down as much as only hundreds of lesser applications working in concert would be able to. Truly a wonder of software engineering.
"surfers are entitled to expect higher standards of website security from Symantec-branded sites than from your average mom and pop website"
Anyone remember how the "Hacker Safe" logos did absolutely nothing for security? In fact, for the longest time, XSS wasn't considered a security problem, and some 10k sites went exploited by XSS while still wearing the Hacker Safe badge? Give me a break.
In my hell-desk days, the cry " I've got the Nortons " was so common that one could spend weeks doing nothing but un-installing / formatting / installing_new_AV / failing to witness
" insurance accidents " / etc. on lots of new machines sold with NIS as part of their bundle. Admittedly this was when dial-up was the norm and people just didn't have the 27 hours per day required to keep it " up-dated ", though I've seen little improvement since ADSL became more common.
This " security " product is a Great Slander on the name of a wonderful ( British, as I recall )motorcycle marque.
And the idio.. sorry, staff attempting to promote it via a dodgy web-site and a lyric-addled mis-spelling rhyme-rooter have the just reward of, count them, 180 ( wow ) suggestions. From the whole world. Wow.
Badgers, because they would do a better job.
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