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I too use Spyw...wait..no I don't. Odd that the links are not to Spyware doctor but to a "blog": http://antispywaresearch.blogspot.com/
It's written by a guy named Edward Lathrop who, if you google, seems to have a lot of "How-to" tech articles out there. Me'thinks this is comment spam from him.
Symantec is just expensive bloated crap which offers little or no benefit and is likely to wreck your machine.
It's hard to see much difference between Symantec and all the rogue anti malware 'products' we keep hearing about.
Little surprise they've now started advertising it in the same way!
Maybe they hired a cheap SEO company out of India. Spamming forums and blogs seems to be the MO these days.
This outfit spammed my forum yesterday for a legit IT consulting company.
seoindia.mobi
"Symantec is just expensive bloated crap"
Well lets do some comparison shopping. All these products offer 3 PC protection for 1 year.
Norton AV/AS 2009 $40
Norton IS 2009 $60
Trend Micro IS Pro $70
Trend Micro IS 50
Trend Micro Av/AS $40
Spy Sweeper +AV $50
Spyware Doctor IS $60
Spyware Doctor +AV $40
Spyware Doctor $30
Kaspersky IS 2009 $80
Kaspersky AV/AS $60
NOD32 Smart Security $60
NOD32 AV/AS $40
Vipre AV/AS +Firewall $90
Vipre AV/AS $50
*Sunbelt does offer a discount on firewall w/ purchase of bot AV/AS + firewall.
Looks like Symantec's pricing is on par with everyone else, them bastards. The Norton 2009 products have gone through major overhauls to increase performance and not be big resource hogs like the 2004,05,06 and 07 product lines.
"which offers little or no benefit"
I would say they offer more benefit than your fud and certainly more benefit than nothing at all.
"and is likely to wreck your machine"
This is not likely to happen. If it did your machine probably had something else wrong with it to begin with.
"Little surprise they've now started advertising it in the same way!"
I highly doubt they are intentionally advertising through comment spam.
I am not a Symantec fanboy, nor do I use their products, but before you get diarrhea of the mouth you need check your facts.
Perhaps companies will think twice before outsourcing efforts to pump their SEO rankings, particularly with odious astroturfing.
See http://www.google.com/
hostednews...6KuREwD99EGK504
for an Associated Press news article in which the New York AG squeezed a $300,000 settlement out of a cosmetic surgery company that was posting fake glowing customer testimonials on websites.
Not to nitpick or anything, but as I mentioned at the very first comment to this post, this was not spam from the vendor per se. I received this email response from Edward Lathrop. As I mentioned, it's coming from him:
"There is no way for me to deny this because I did it but that was when
I was trying out different ways of getting free traffick and I did not
realize that i was spamming.
I'm really sorry about that.
Is that Ok?"
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