you know ... at first I was just going to post some rolling-on-the-floor-laughing smilies ...
but then I thought, no; be kind and helpful, and I actually started to type up a brief summary of the brilliant career
of peter norton that was brought to a standstill by ron posner, who, while conning symantec into buying peter's
little company for about four time it's actual value, did it behind peter's back ... of course it turned out that
posner was just Sark to John Thompson's MCP ....
and then a whole bunch of other shit happened, but the short of it is that "norton internet security" has been a shoddy,
pile of shit-code for twenty years .... because peter had absolutely nothing to do with ... symantec didn't start fucking
off his utilities until 98SE, when the new kiddies just could not fucking grasp the ring-zero architecture ... and now,
Peter Norton's Utilities are absolutely worthless ... three quarters of the things symantec claims they do (and donot)
windows has been doing within the OS (on the NT kernel) since 4....
then I thought ... naw, fuck all that ... another tl;dr ... but the bottom line to that story is to not underestimate the
long standing hatred the "original" hackers had towards symantec from the beginning, for their treatment of norton, and
then the Reign of Terror of John W. Thompson, which many now believe caused norton himself to pass along tips on
"vulnerabilities" of symantec products; but the main vulnerability was that the code was written by shit-smeared
monkeys being prodded with hot jumper cables every few minutes ....
and then the new kids "discovered" the internet and Bill Gates was stupid enough to start the MSDN and all the great
"hacker hysteria" of the late 90s started up ... (the reason some people will say that symantec itself is/was the main
author of all those "viruses", to sell their "Norton's Anti-Virus", is that there were atleast two cases that were known
wherein the authors of the "viruses" were, in fact, symantec coders .... and they were doing it because John Thompson
is a complete dick, and every now and then the monkeys will throw shit back at you ...
it is true that "norton's anti-virus" detects more "viruses" than any other AV .... this is because it is still sport, and
fun and games in some circles, to target symantec ....
I spent quite a bit of time on the site in question today, both because it was kind of cool and pathetic at the time,
and also because I was trying to catch the "virus" .... I was in and out several times, over several hours, with several
different browsers (including the RealPlayer, lotek, which grabbed all their copyrighted images, but still can't download
the old, old clip of mindy the midget deep-throating a shetland from PornTube thru firefox ...) and I am still alive and posting ...
it would be helpful, to illustrate this point, not in the general scope of things of Great Import, if you would provide some
details from the symantec's report ... it could be something as simple as a data-tracker symantec doesn't like (Google Chrome
considers
all data-trackers and the like to be "malicious" .... except their own shit, which is fucking everywhere) or it
could be something as weird and interesting as the {8DAE90AD-4583-4977-9DD4-4360F7A45C74} file that's sitting in
everybody's add-ons with IE8 or less, that can't be accessed or found anywhere and microsoft never would say anything about
it .... but it doesn't show up in the IE9 beta ....
