Millions of Chinese PCs running Symantec Corp. antivirus software have been
incapacitated by a faulty virus signature distributed last week, government media reported Sunday.

two files -- netapi32.dll and lsasrv.dll -- were falsely quarantined, which in turn crippled
Windows. If an affected PC was rebooted, Windows failed on start-up and showed only a blue screen.

The gory details are found at Computerworld.com (http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9020058)

lol. I'm just glad I'm using freeware and not that Symantec Crap.
Just wondering if they would have to pay compensation to businesses...

Momok =)

Glad I'm not using Norton anymore.

I haven't installed a Symantec product on my machine in donkey's years.

The most idiotic part is people actually use their products and recommend them to others!

All I can do is laugh :D !

Its to bad the general public trust them with the important task of safe guarding their PC.

I would expect the Chinese to switch from Symantec in droves. If not, why not? If any antivirus program did that to me regardless of the brand, I wouldn't give them a second chance anytime soon.

Lawl, now, thats classic.

Haven't used Norton myself for a long long time....

I feel sorry for all the folks who`s computers have been crashed by Symantec/Norton crapware. This is just another reason not to install that substandard, resource hogging, computer crashing crap.

Regards Howard :)

The most idiotic part is people actually use their products and recommend them to others!
Most likely they use them because they come preinstalled with a new computer.

I didn't mean the ones who use them because it's pre-installed. I mean the ones who actually install it manually and tell other people to do so as well. I've met quite a few of those. :)

Fortunately, I quit using the Norton Antivirus and Firewall since they are memory - and resource - hogging my system.

I only use the Systemworks on my win98SE on my computer.

Thank god for NOD32.

Glad I'm not using Norton anymore.
Same here.

Haven't used Norton myself for a long long time....

Same here, I use good ole' JerkAfee. It is the best I've used an it was free.