Re: Symantec corporate AV & Firewall co-existence problems? -- PCTECH

Interpret how you will.

I personally don't know whether to chalk this up to a marketing effort
or simple gross incompetence.  Either way, the air in Redmond smells. 


John A. Jones, CISSP
Americas Information Security Officer
Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Dan
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 3:05 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Symantec corporate AV & Firewall co-existence
problems?

On 7/13/06, Jones, John (US) <John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

WGA has been known to disable legit XP installs.


Yeah.  Livingston is calling WGA a marketing program as it's designed 
to fear/shame people in to buying more copies of Windows than they 
need (to replace existing legit copies).  Today's issue of Windows 
Secrets, BTW, notes an alternative to Windows Update that ignores WGA.



If I'm following this, it sounds like MS is deliberately disabling legit
XP installs, as opposed to an overly-ambitious, but well-intentioned,
effort.
Would MS stoop that low?  MS does a lot of sucky things that are
probably legal, but I would consider that type of activity to be
criminal.

- Dan
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