full-disclosure - Re: Microsoft AntiSpyware attacks Norton AV?

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Message-ID: <8e5ffb560602121911v30c1a2dci2f4e8bef66fca268@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon Feb 13 03:11:45 2006
From: gautam.bipin at gmail.com (Bipin Gautam)
Subject: Re: Microsoft AntiSpyware attacks Norton AV?

On 2/13/06, Dave Korn <davek_throwaway@...mail.com> wrote:
> "Joel R. Helgeson" joel@...geson wrote in message
> news:00ac01c62edc$bc62eb40$1400a8c0@...iant...
> > Is anyone else seeing/experiencing this?
>
> > When it scanned each system it found a Trojan called PWS.Bancos.A
> > (Password Stealer) - Level: Severe
>
> > When it quarantined the bug, it also rendered the Symantec Anti-Virus
> > helpless.
>
> > Symantec Antivirus is corrupt and not usable.
>

Any security product for windows that depends on the windows registry
and IE/windows components soooooooo much to a point small malfunction
on those will seriously affect its normal working, eats lots of system
resources, has a VERY BAD uninstaller, has big bulky updates deserves
to be flushed out of your PC. hey, NAV qualifies on all these
criterias.   (o;

-bipin