In another thread, sturgess asks a key question:
Is NIS "broken"?
Here's a question for long-time forum users:
when was the last time that you saw _so many_ trojan/rootkit posts in this forum?
Before the usual apologists can make their non-technical, subjective (not objective) posts, look at the objective facts.
Trojan and rootkit related threads in other AV vendor forums:
AVG 2012 Home
2 of 31
Kaspersky Internet Security & Anti-Virus
1 of 53
Avast Free/Pro/Suite
0 of 45
Avira AV Premium and Internet Security
0 of 59
ESET NOD32 AV
0 of 50
MalwareBytes General
2 of 55
Grand Total: 5 out of 295, or 2%
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This forum, Norton Internet Security/AV
45 of 59
Total: 45 out of 59, or _76%_!
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The above does not count the pinned threads (usually posted by moderators) or moved threads.
The figures were as of the date/time that I looked at those forums.
More than three-quarters of all the (current) threads in _this_ forum are about trojans/rootkits!
History says that time after time when major corporations have a disaster on their hands, the ones that stonewall, deny, and provide no response are -- in the long run -- the ones with the worst long-term outcomes.
Symantec needs to be forthcoming to their customers instead of stonewalling. Some useful information please.
Symantec did not participate in the AV-Comparatives tests earlier this year.
Their stated "reason" was that they refused to participate in the File Detection Test.
Is a trojan or rootkit a "file"?
Was it just a coincidence that they did not participate in the tests?
Or did they know what the result would be.