On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Oh good lord! You have left me speechless. >> This Norton Internet Security... it has access to information on all the >> backend setups of the sites you visit... magically? >> > > Yes and if they don't have info yet, they tell me so and I don't give away > any private details on the site. Just to give you some more context, its an > antivirus software sitting on my laptop. I pay $50 a year for the > subscription. Its made by > symantec<http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/about/media/Symantec_Corporate_Fact_Sheet.pdf>, > who have been in this field since 1982. I think you're being (at best) misguided in trusting your software so much. I could write lots of ranty text to support my view, but I'll settle, for now, for Two Words (all right, three): "Zero-day exploit" [1]. As a more general comment, see [2]. Udhay [1] http://netsecurity.about.com/od/newsandeditorial1/a/aazeroday.htm [2] http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/appeal-to-authority.html -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
