I've just about had it with Symantec antivirus products.  I've had nothing but headaches with their products - compatibility problems, and VERY poor detection/infection prevention that has left numerous computers infected by trojans and spyware.

And now... bring on the exploits:

"LIKE FIREFIGHTERS."  Symantec contends it has the wherewithal to take on the hackers. The company has more than 100 researchers combing cyberspace to figure out where hackers are going next and how to protect its customers. "The issue is, when a vulnerability [is found], how quickly do you respond?" says Symantec Chairman and CEO John Thompson. "If by some quirk of fate we discover a problem, like firefighters we move quickly to address it." Symantec sends out patches within 28 hours of a vulnerability being exposed, which compares favorably with an average of 51 days for most software firms.

But in a world of industrial-scale hacking, that might not be fast enough. According to AV-Test.org, a German virus tracker, Symantec's average response time for the 12 major virus outbreaks during the first half of 2005 was 10 hours, 48 minutes. McAfee scored slightly better with 9 hours, 29 minutes. F-Secure, a Finnish security firm, took 2 hours, 37 minutes. "[A few hours] make a world of difference," says F-Secure President and Chief Executive Risto Siilasmaa. "Viruses infect PCs exponentially."

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