@Tacroy said:
You think that's bad? The version of Symantec we have at work has two major problems:
- While scanning, it occasionally flips the fuck out and starts quarantining files in the quarantine folder without deleting the original quarantined file. It looks at <hex string>.tmp in the quarantine folder, says "hey that's a virus!", copies it to <hex string+1>.tmp, and doesn't delete <hex string>.tmp. Eventually, you run out of space and Outlook doesn't work any more which is probably the first indication that anything's going on, unless you've got OCD and check your disk space usage every day. Bonus points because 90% of the time the original quarantined file wasn't anything more threatening than a tracking cookie or some (non-viral) cached web junk, and all that's happened is the antivirus's shitty heuristics think it's bad.
That was an old bug, shouldn't happen in newer versions. You know you're having fun when you can't delete the directory in explorer because there's more files than it can stat.
I find both Symantec Corporate 10 and now 11 that I run to be quite nice. They haven't failed to block something yet, don't impact CPU like the horrible consumer symantec/norton BS does, and corporate gets (or did) more frequent definition updates. When it's scanning I don't feel any impact to performance, either.