Reply to post: "...its anti-virus software had not been updated for over seven years."

The bill for Home Depot after its sales registers were hacked: $19.5m

JeffyPoooh
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"...its anti-virus software had not been updated for over seven years."

Maybe they had read about just how amazingly bad Symantec's Norton Antivirus (NAV) '07 was, and so they wisely decided to avoid "upgrading" from the previous version until things improved. Maybe after seven years, they finally gave up waiting and did something else.

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