I have a Mac with two partitions on it: Yosemite and Snow Leopard and while working in my Snow Leopard partition, I recently received a very stern warning that my copy of Norton Internet Security 4 "will reach it's End of Life on October 31, 2015 [Halloween :( to be exact] and "It will no longer work unless you upgrade."
Now aside from the intimidating wording of this warning, only days away when it warned me, does this really mean my Symantec program will stop working leaving my Snow Leopard partition completely unprotected "unless I upgrade" (and I'm already using the latest Norton Security 6.2 for my Yosemite partition...or...does it simply mean that it will be no longer receive the same virus definitions...the exact same virus definitions...that my Norton Security 6.2 is using.
I used to be an Intego customer, but switched to Norton because I thought they were the standard. But a virus definition, whether you have Intego, McAfee, AVG, Kaspersky, Avast or whatever, and I used to be a computer technician, is the same no matter what version of a program. I thought that's what a paid subscription was for...to get these definitions added to our anti-virus programs.
As Norton Security 4 will not run on Yosemite and El Capitan (and never mind the trouble people are having with Apple's latest OS trying to get mission critical Microsoft Office running on El Capitan and that's the reason I'm staying with Yosemite for now), how could Norton Security 4 possibly be a threat to people buying 6.2? So much so or "It will reach it's End of Life on October 31, 2015" and "It will no longer work unless you upgrade."
The question I have is: Am I being threatened by Symantec that "Norton Security 4 will stop working leaving my Snow Leopard partion completely bare" or that my Internet Security 4 will no longer be getting the same virus definitions that I'll be getting with my Internet Security 6.2 will be receiving?
What am I in for this Saturday?