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| Symantec to enter anti-spyware market |
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 at 21:15 by Laurence Norah |
Symantec, makers of a wide range of anti-virus solutions including the popular Norton suite, have announced that they will be entering the anti-spyware market, and have released a public beta version of Norton Internet Security 2005 AntiSpyware Edition.
Spyware continues to grow as a threat to consumers, but there are already a large number of tools out there which can be used to combat the problem effectively. Even Microsoft offer a free tool to clean spyware which seems to work well, so this offering from Symantec is entering quite a full marketplace.
However, it would no doubt be remiss of Symantec to leave spyware out of it's Internet Security suite, given the prevalence of spyware in todays world. Symantec believe that users prefer the approach whereby one product fits all a users security needs, rather than having to rely on a plethora of different products from different companies, even if they have to pay for such a privledge.
It'll certainly be interesting to see how popular this offering is with users, and whether or not this will prompt other anti-virus vendors to provide anti-spyware tools with their software. We'll keep you posted.
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| As a current customer of Symantec, I applaud their decision to enter the anit-spyware market. I do not completely understand the use of spyware, but it seems to me that viruses and spams abound. I recently subscribed to PC World, and gave them routine permission to have routine germane offers sent to me. My spam count went immediately from Zero (0) to 58. I remonstrated with PCWorld and they advised certain of their licensees that my name should be removed from their mail list. Magazine publishers should all be cautioned that spammers are attempting to get around limits to spams and that the magazines should not go along with the spammers. By the way, Symantec identified 100% of the spams and blocked them and continue to block them, so PCWorld's ploy of indiscriminantly selling mail lists comes to naught. If the spams continue I will need to cancel my subscription to that magazine. I wish others would be so vocal in protesting this invasion of privacy.
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| Invasion of privacy??? its just an email address
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