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RE: Rofl!
I've already had problems with Symantec. Most recently, they returned to me a perfectly valid rebate request. Swindled me out of $50.
RE: Rofl!
Yep, they already ripped me off years ago on their buggy WinFax 8.0 program that was supposed to work under Windows NT. Numerous users posted about the same problem in their support forums. After a few patches and promises from their support folks to provide a solution, they dumped support for that version and told us to upgrade to a newer version (that actually had fewer features) for a fix. The support folks who had previously communicated with us were also replaced with different people at that time. Plus at about the same time, they dropped their NNTP support forums making it much more difficult for people to access their support forums. A third-party company even released a hack that they advertised as a solution for the bug.
To say the least, Symantec will never get another penny from me.
Super.
What happened to USEFUL products like Norton Utilities?
How many?
We allready have:
Kaspersky:
http://www.telechargement.fr/fiche.html?REF=1701&Langue=FR
F-Secure:
http://www.f-secure.com/wireless/palm/av4palm/
And maybe others for about 3 (?) known virusses:
http://www.europe.f-secure.com/virus-info/v-pics/
RE: How many?
http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=1259
http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=1158
this is also a good article on the topic:
http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=1744
RE: How many?
McAfee
http://us.mcafee.com/root/product.asp?productid=vs7
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RE: How many?
Maybe I should pay someone $20 to do it for me.
(Is the proof always in the pudding?)
Auto Protect?
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Old hype reborn...
One virus Phage - not in the wild(probably proof of concept),
One trojan Liberty - overblown hype not really a threat &
One other app that hid exe's by setting the hidden bit - not in the wild.
All of which happened a long time ago and nothing has happened since. I can't image running virus scanning software on my Palm especially if it is not on-demand. I don't want them slowing everything down hooking api's registering for notifications and such.
My 2 cents.
*&%$@*$^!!!!!
RE: *&%$@*$^!!!!!
(Why do some people say you can kill two birds with one stone when it's hard enough killing one bird with two stones?)
I wonder: "Who needs those viruses?"
How many viruses exist on the dark side? (PPC)
Symantec is not stupid
What they will do is start flooding the POS platform with virus and alike so people will buy the software
RE: Symantec is not stupid
What tripe! Virus software on the PalmOS is worse than useless -- it eats up money, valuable RAM, CPU time (and hence battery life!).
Correct Title: Symantec *Re-Launches* Virus Protection
Stupid
RE: Stupid
I just finished my PALM FUll SCAN and found nothing.
Now I feel safe! :P THANKS NORTON!
PALM III, PALM 150, VISOR PRISM, SONY CLIE SJ30 All of them working.
Yet another self-fulfilling, self-feeding marketing ploy
This is nothing more than a marketing ploy to ride on the coat tails of the fear and hype generated by current Windows-related virus events. The PalmOS has NEVER been a virus-prone platform, so such an application offers nothing more than a false "peace of mind." Yes, there one or two (or three) apps that were "problem" apps, but these are now extremely rare. The bigger threat is companies releasing "final" apps to the general public that are nothing more than "beta" versions, relying on the user base to do their debugging. This has caused me more headaches than ANY virus has ever caused.
A Palm-specific virus simply can't spread from Palm-to-Palm like it does in the Windows world (aka, the email systems.) Current Palm implementations cannot propogate a virus in the same manner, so any app (though maybe promoted as "preventative") is "shielding" you from something that simply doesn't currently exist. In time, with more and more connectivity capabilities, it could become more of a risk, but like a posting above stated, these companies are simply daring people to write a virus.
Don't bother wasting your money on this kind of false, useless crap. Your best bet is to acquire or purchase your apps from reputable sources and don't install something you don't know anything about. Beyond that, it's your own damn fault if you mess things up...
Another Idea
Though 'unwired pda times are counted" many will serve using only the hotsync computer.
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Rofl!