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Post by **Wakeup** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:36 am

FRIENDS DONT LET FRIENDS USE NORTON GO BACK!!!!

Had to do data recovery on a Goback partition.....suxorz.

This is for one of my customers....so Ya...if you have Go back on your machine....DISABLE and uninstall Go back.

Post by **fuzzysnuggleduck** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:04 am

Better yet, uninstall any and all Symantec products.

Post by **Wakeup** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:12 am

I was going to say that too..but ehh...I was trying to be nice!

I almost worked for Symantec 10 years ago....when they were worth something.

Post by **Francious70** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:45 am

They were worth something at one time??

They have always been crap to me. AVG is the only antivirus I use.

Post by **fuzzysnuggleduck** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:11 pm

Symantec has this great ability to buy smaller software companies and then bloat their software to hell and back.

Post by **Wakeup** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:16 pm

Well 10 years ago...they were something heading slowlllyyyy downward.
15 years ago...they were on the rise. 3 or 4 years ago now it's a slead ride downhill.

rolandk · Post by **rolandk** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 4:09 pm

How is Ghost? I've been using it for years but never had to recover data (knock on wood).

Post by **fuzzysnuggleduck** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 4:28 pm

rolandk wrote:How is Ghost? I've been using it for years but never had to recover data (knock on wood).

Ghost has worked fine for a while but the last version I used was... more than 5 years ago.

I use good ol' free G4L now.

Post by **Wakeup** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:09 pm

Ghost is one of those programs that should NEVER go away. It's a great program. Probably the only thing from symantec I'd ever buy/use.

to clone drives mainly...other than that thats it.

Post by **fuzzysnuggleduck** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:18 pm

Ever tried Acronis TrueImage? I heard it's superior to Ghost in it's latest incarnations... but I don't know from experience as I haven't used it.

Post by **Bfowler** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:49 am

lol, i know we are an Acronis VAR....i think we run it on a couple servers

Post by **fuzzysnuggleduck** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:14 am

I'm a Linux geek so I always find the open source solution first.

Ghost4Linux owns. So does freshmeat.

marko · Post by **marko** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 11:24 am

Francious70 wrote:They were worth something at one time??

They have always been crap to me. AVG is the only antivirus I use.

same here, i have 2 desk tops and a laptop with AVG free and never had any problems with it all

Post by **VW337** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:13 am

fuzzysnuggleduck wrote:Symantec has this great ability to buy smaller software companies and then make their product absolutely unusable.

Fixed^^

gridracer · Post by **gridracer** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:00 am

Ordinarily I would agree Norton has never done anything for me until last night. I have NOD32( best virus software I have used) on my computer which has been telling me I had virtumonde but no matter how many times it deleted it and rebooted it would still be there. I tried all the known fixes for it but nothing could get it off.
As a last resort went to nortons site and dl trial of norton 360. Well after the lengthy install and scan it found virtumonde and a few other minor things and it fixed everything perfectly.
So maybe norton got something right with the new 360