Newsletter Archives

• Born: Broadcom botches the Symantec migration

  Posted on March 3, 2020 at 13:37 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  So Broadcom bought Symantec for $ 10 billion. Symantec becomes NortonLifeLock, another excellent example of wasted name recognition.

  As part of the transition, today, Broadcom abruptly cut off all links to the old Symantec site. People, uh, aren’t happy. Apparently they’re even having trouble buying new licenses for the old Symantec software.

  Günter Born has a rundown, which relies heavily on Catalin Cimpanu’s reporting. You’d think with a $10 billion budget they’d do a bit better.

  Antivirus Apps Broadcom, Symantec

• Microsoft removes the update block for August Win7 patches on Symantec/Norton systems

  Posted on August 28, 2019 at 07:18 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Symantec advises that it and Microsoft have come to an agreement about Symantec and Norton antivirus problems with the August Win7 and Server 2008 R2 patches. As a result, MS relaxed its weeks-long block on installing the August Monthly Rollup and Security-only patches on systems running Symantec and Norton antivirus products.

  Details in Computerworld Woody on Windows.

  Thx, @RDRGuy

  Windows Patches/Security August 2019 Black Tuesday, KB 4512486, KB 4512506, KB 4512514, Norton, Symantec

• Symantec Endpoint Protection 2.1 causing BSODs

  Posted on July 14, 2012 at 11:00 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  If you are running Windows XP and Symantec’s Endpoint Protection 2.1, beware of the latest update. (Endpoint Protection is generally a corporate product, but if you have a company laptop, you may be affected too.)

  According to Reuters, Symantec admits that the latest updates are blue-screening XP machines.

   

  Windows Patches/Security BSOD, Symantec