Frank Wrote: Norton on X should be outlawed, granted.
What about on 9.2.2 (*not* classic)? I thought earlier versions were well implemented. Has the newer version's problems anything to do with the BSD base?
A: I have lots of versions of Norton going back to when it was called Symantec Utilities for the Mac or "SUM." Symantec purchased it from another company whose name I can't recall. In those days, it was just for disk recovery. It had four different systems and it was really good--particularly with floppies.
Then what happened was that they decided to get fancy and do disk maintenance. That is really bad. It turns out, that a couple of systems ago, Apple started doing disk directory maintenance too, so that wasn't as useful. The antivirus stuff wasn't useful because of the free antivirus stuff.
But when Norton screws up your disk it is not just a random miswrite, it is instead a focused miswrite that literally wipes out data.
Once something goes wrong with your disk, the first thing you want to do is keep anything from being written over anything else until you have recovered as much as you are willing to work for. Norton fixes the disk by wiping it the bad stuff--like files.
Of course, my copy of Norton systemworks includes an old copy of diskwarrior--for disk recovery even Norton guys figured that one out.
I always have kept Norton around, in case (using it really carefullly) it could recover something that Diskwarrior couldn't. But it never does.
The problem is, keeping the box hidden from the wife and kids, is like trying to hide a loaded gun. Sooner or later someone's going to find it and shoot it off. Like the time it told my wife--"there is something wrong with your disk, you should repair it"--she clicked "yes" and she had a totally repaired disk--with only one file left on it.
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