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Re:How to Compromise the Enterprise Endpoint by emmelaich on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @11:12PM (#11999267)
It comes pre-installed on many machines, and the mindshare is large.

I also attempted to remove Norton from a friend's computer a few years ago. I failed and later discovered that was actually unable to be uninstalled. Norton published some instructions to let you remove parts to the point you could ignore it at least.

I swore to never to touch anything from Norton/Symantec ever again. I bought ESET/nod for a few machines but now I rely entirely on Windows Defender for the few Windows machines I own.

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Re:How to Compromise the Enterprise Endpoint by mmsmatt on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @11:28PM (#11999301)
ESET brings back good memories, I was a happy customer as long as I administered Windows boxes. I never remember a false positive with ESET/Nod32.

Norton, OTOH, would happily delete nmap.exe and cain.exe then beg for praise after the fact, a kitten with her first kill.

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Re:How to Compromise the Enterprise Endpoint by kmch on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @05:31AM (#12000442)
Everywhere I see lots of praise for ESET, but the program isn't even capable of installing itself properly on my system. If I then try to uninstall it it can't even do that and I have to go into safe mode to uninstall it from there, using their uninstall tool, which thankfully worked.
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