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To: shadowman who wrote (27275)	5/29/2002 1:03:56 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110655

dennis re, "Is it Spiderman??? No! it's Symantecman!!...LOL!" very good. <g3> again, i'll repeat, i have been accused via pm of promoting symantec software here. actually i think the person said i was shoving it down everyone's throat. your input on this subject is appreciated. you make sense to me. :) mark

To: shadowman who wrote (27275)	5/29/2002 1:58:33 PM
From: Robert Graham	Respond to of 110655

I've also read about bloat and that some of norton's products are a little buggy. How true! The quality of software craftsmanship of Symantec's products has taken a big hit. They are also leaving features out from revision to revision, IMO out of laziness. First it was the disk editor, then at one time I think they had hardware testing which they have eliminated, next they have limited the functionality of Wipedisk which now does not wipe the disk cache, and now they have removed the Registry Editor. Lately I have found a bug in their firewall that can get into a "mode" where it frequently monopolizes the CPU for several minutes. Symantec thought they had already provided a fix for this problem. Not so! It took them several months for their first "fix". It has been several months now while I wait for their next "fix". They conveniently deleted the discussion of this problem from their web site. But no "fix" has been provided. What happened to the times of writing software where each revision outdid the previous one? What happened to writing quality bug-free software? Oh yes, that was Peter Norton, not Symantec. Symantec as a company is succumbing to a slow death out of the neglect of the development of their products, providing more incomplete software with more bugs as time progresses. JMO. Bob Graham