It's not good to accuse an anti-virus company of making viruses themselves
unless you have a shred of evidence to support such accusations. Otherwise
it's BS. Those companies are not stupid enough to try ***like that.
Often the creators of those viruses are caught and often face real jail time
and very hefty fines. Do you think they wouldn't spill the beans on Norton
if they were hired by them or some 3rd party? Hell yes they would. If
Norton was caught doing that it would mean the end of them as a company.
They would not risk that. Now maybe one of their investors might but even
then it would horrendously damage the reputation of the company. The fact
is that it takes money to keep those company's afloat. Whether they are
being greedy bastards or not all hinges on what their company overhead is,
which you do not know. So if you don't know then don't accuse them of being
greedy or making viruses. Anyways if you really want to avoid the update
fees, all you gotta do is to a dirty reinstall of Windows and then just
install Norton Anti-Virus again. Actually before you do that, try
uninstalling it, and then reinstalling NAV to see if that works. They
uninstall may erase the registry files. I don't remember offhand if it does
or not, but try it before reinstalling Windows.
Chris G.
aka-Miles Teg<GD>
> I HAVE paid for Norton awhile back. And I had paid for McAfee too. But at
> our company, McAfee is causing all hell with SMS and other programs, so we
> won't be with them for long. What I am saying, is that in years past, ALL
> virus definition files were FREE. Now, they are a PAID SUBSCRIPTION???!!!!
> We would NOT need this ***on our systems, which most of the time causes
> problems and slowdowns ANYWAY, if someone didn't keep creating them. And
so
> who do you think wants to make MONEY? The hacker, or the A/V companies?
> Thus, who do you think really DOES create the new viruses?
> > First of all, your post is off topic.
> > Second of all, these programs were NEVER free to begin with. You were
> > allowed to download an EVALUATION copy of the software under the
agreement
> > that you would PAY FOR the product if you kept using it; otherwise you
> were
> > obliged to REMOVE it from your system once the evaluation period
expired.
> > The fact that you ignored this rule and continued to update your virus
> > definitions for an extended period of time without paying for a product
> that
> > was obviously of value to you is testament to your desire for a free
> lunch.
> > Well guess what, there AIN'T no such thing as a free lunch, and now
you're
> > being asked to pony up your WAY OVERDUE share of the costs associated
with
> > developing the product.
> > My suggestion is to pay the subscription fee and get on with your life.
> > TZ
