Forum Post: Shame on Norton/Symantec!!!
Posted 12 years ago on Sept. 30, 2011, 2:20 a.m. EST by msheldon
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from North Arlington, NJ
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Just discovered that Norton/Symantec is now doing its best to stop access to the OccupyWallSt.org website. Norton is identifying the site as a malicious one (with driveby downloads) and advising folks to exit the site. Time to say goodbye to Norton after being a customer for 20 years.
we got Anon by ourside if they want a hacker war
wow, norton vs anonymous, I don't even want to see that.
They are on the offensive... thats good, the corps are getting nervous. next they will be paying hackers to flood the site and shut it down...
Well, as of Tuesday afternoon (10/4), once again Norton/Symantec is doing its best to keep people from visiting OccupyWallSt.org and has reinstated its malicious website warning. I guess Norton/Symantec (and its major corporate partner, Comcast) don't like it too much when others exercise their 1st Amendment rights.
Some good news! As of Monday evening, Norton/Symantec is no longer classifying OccupyWallSt.org as a malicious website and coercing a redirect. This is particularly satisfying considering Comcast bundles the Norton Security Suite with its ISP service involving something like 20 million homes or nearly 100 million folks.
As an IT person let me recommend a FREE alternative
www.free-av.com
Avira AntiVir Personal is out of Germany and totally free, it is not a good idea to be connected to the internet with out an antivirus on any windows computer, Linux and Apple can get away with it because they are bolth Unix based and it is harder for the virus to get the administrator permission it needs.
To see the "reasons" for the attempted blacklisting of OccupyWallSt.org on the part of Symantec: http://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?name=occupywallst.org
To see the corporate interest on the part of Symantec's Board to make OccupyWallSt.org disappear: http://www.symantec.com/about/profile/management/
Trying to find the direct e-mail addresses of these folks so we can express our outrage but in the meantime here is Symantec's phone number:
Worldwide Headquarters
Mountain View, USA 350 Ellis Street Mountain View, CA 94043 USA Phone: +1 650-527-8000
wow.... they are just evil scum every which way...