Wednesday 25 January 2012

The Symantec Antivirus Hacking Scandal - Hype prevails over Science?

Symantec’s Norton Online Protection Application: You can see their big-bucks advertisements on your TV almost any night of the week. And find their costly ads in popular newspapers everywhere. They are all over the r / c, Online and display world. Making big statements, and even bigger guarantees.

No question about it. For decades, Norton has used large numbers on its marketing. Marketing the brilliance of its Online Protection items fully, generously and often.

All while declining to create — it is now clear — the kind of leading side technological innovation their ads stated they had!

This is a cautionary story about what happens when Buzz dominates over Technology.

On Wednesday, Jan 17, 2012, Symantec, parents or guardian company of Norton, hesitantly declared that online hackers had won in taking it resource value – or plan – for Norton Online Protection, Norton Computer virus Business Version, Norton GoBack, Norton Resources and pcAnywhere.

This earth quake of an statement holds repeating: The greatest name and globe's most strongly marketed Online Protection items said that its own computer systems were treated by the very online hackers they have told us all their top-notch technological innovation prevents cold!

And when did this robbery occur? In 2006. Six decades ago!

By Wednesday mid-day, Reuters Technology and Technology Manager Jim Finkle had revealed that, “Companies generally intensely secure their resource value, which is considered the title treasure of most software creators. The reason for all the secrecy is that companies worry challenges could use the value to decide the key marinade behind their technological innovation, and that online hackers could use it to plan problems.”

Now we can expect the same statements from other hype antivirus also except a few like COMODO antivirus who believes in science rather than hype!! which is well proved by Matousec, the most venerable, independent and trusted Internet Security Software tester.

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