Ok...here's somthing for the history books, lol.

My brother use to use my computer, then he built his own a while ago and installed norton antivirus on it.

Well the norton just expired the other week, and my brother got an email from Symantec saying the usual "Please upgrade or renew your current Norton Anti-Virus software for continued protections."

My brother replied asking for them to not contact him and that he wasn't interested in upgrading at the moment.

Symantec replied with "For the safety of your computer, it is highly suggested that you upgrade or renew."

Again, my brother replied "No thank you."

You'd think that would be the end of this tale...but it gets better.

The other day my brother was online and his firewall lit up with the warning that someone was trying to send him a virus.

He opened up the firewall and checked it out and saw that someone was trying to send him a trojan.

He took the IP and traced it back...and here's the end to this tale...

The IP traced back to Symantec.


LOL


Those dirty virus-protection-pushing monsters!

Evil.....=(

I guess they were trying to give you a virus so that you would think you need viurs protection? heh

haha, if it was symantec (traceroutes NEVER LIE :wink: )
then it must have been some crazy fool at symantec or something, either that or a conspiracy, either that or some guy hacked into symantec, either that or---

wait you didnt say traceroute... you said that it was the IP...
i doubt it was symantec unless they have an employee who really doesnt like you. otherwise someone's probably spoofing...

i know of a couple ppl who had their's expire at the same time, so maybe its a standard or something. anyway symantec probably isnt like that.

Virusscans are a virus! they bug you like one, so shouldn't they be classified as one?

lol, it was a trace route...i just say trace IP because not many people understand what a trace route is.

anyways...McAffee or however you spell it is like a virus. i hate it.

ahh ok.

lol, i told him he should send them some sort of new virus lol. It's his one chance to attack a major company with no repercussions

i'm not sure if that would actually stand up to a court... either way it would be entertaining to see it hit the charts.

thats just wrong.

lets go burn symantec's offices :twisted:

WTF ! 8O

I always get a free update anyway.. i always format ones a year so i will always have it free!