Annoyance of the day
Today I bought and installed Norton Antivirus 2006 for a PC at home. My old AV subscription had expired, and upgrading to the new(-ish) shiny 2006 version was only slightly more expensive. It took 3 reboots to install! There was one between installation and activation, and two more after runs of the LiveUpdate function. Why can’t it download everything at once? Why does it need a reboot just so it can go and download more updates?
And why in God’s name does it insist in popping up a “you must reboot your PC to complete the process” dialog box that you can’t hide behind other windows with only an OK option!!!! Even when Windows does the same thing it softens it with a “Reboot Later” option. My PC takes about 5 minutes to reboot (it’s my home office PC, so there’s a lot of “stuff” running at start-up), so this one simple little job ended up taking me away from work for over 45 minutes. Aaaaggghhh!
And another thing…. What gives Symantec the right to try and scare me into upgrading to Norton SystemWorks or Norton Internet Security? The status screen says I’ve got “No Coverage” for data recovery risks, and “Limited Coverage” for Performance, Web Browsing and Email & Messaging. I’ve got full coverage thank you very much; just not with Symantec products! I want my AV status display to tell me how I’m fixed for virus protection. I’ll go to my backup client to see how I am for “Data Recovery”. Bastards!!!!!
By gary | 5. Sep 2006 | Software | No Comments »