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Can Microsoft Security Essentials beat Norton?
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
What do Microsoft and Symantec have in common? The obvious answer is that both are offering a new security package. In Symantec’s case it’s Norton Internet Security 2010, which I looked at a few weeks back. Microsoft, meanwhile, is today due to release Security Essentials, its free replacement for OneCare, formerly codenamed Morro.
They’re also both companies dogged by the sins of products past. (more…)
Tags: Con Mallon, conficker, malware, Microsoft, Morro, Norton, OneCare, Security, Security Essentials, Symantec, viruses
Posted in: Real World Computing, Software
Norton makes oi larf
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
This week I have mostly been in Madrid, trying not to laugh when someone said: “Security products are too slow” or, and this one is worth waiting for, “People shouldn’t tolerate a security product with poor performance.”
The reason for my exercise in ROFL-stifling being that the person saying this happened to be none other than Rowan Trollope, the Vice President of Consumer Business at Symantec. In Madrid to oversee the official launch of Norton Internet Security 2009. (more…)
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