Symantec throws up hurdles to independent software developers
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#2Suppose Symantec started a program where companies were allowed to pay for their apps to be white listed would and precluded from this check. Could this be considered a protection racket under anti-trust rules?
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#3Are your executables signed?
Re: Symantec throws up hurdles to independent software developers
#4Suppose Symantec started a program where companies were allowed to pay for their apps to be white listed would and precluded from this check. Could this be considered a protection racket under anti-trust rules?
No. There's nothing remotely resembling a monopoly here, just a garbage product.
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#5Why isn't this grounds for a product-disparagement lawsuit?
Re: Symantec throws up hurdles to independent software developers
#6Are your executables signed?
Signing doesn't always solve the problem.
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#8Suppose Symantec started a program where companies were allowed to pay for their apps to be white listed would and precluded from this check. Could this be considered a protection racket under anti-trust rules?
No. There's nothing remotely resembling a monopoly here, just a garbage product.
A garbage product that is unfortunately pre-installed on hundreds of millions of windows PCs. Its actually quite difficult to remove all of its components; its not just a one click operation as it should be.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. There's nothing remotely resembling a monopoly here, just a garbage product.
A garbage product that is unfortunately pre-installed on hundreds of millions of windows PCs. Its actually quite difficult to remove all of its components; its not just a one click operation as it should be.
I have had some success with http://www.symantec.com/nrt .
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#10We have Symantec AntiVir at work.
Few months ago I was researching way to make DLL's behave like OSX/linux - e.g. while they are loaded, they can get replaced. This is doable with the compiler option /SWAPRUN:CD,NET - e.g. if your dll/exe was running from CD or Network, and the media went down, it should still work. This somehow pulls the whole data somewhere (I guess in the page file), and it can be replaced.
Anyway, as soon I as started using this Symantec started reporting virus reports - not for everything - but few were enough for me to stop.