Norton AntiVirus is Itself, A Virus

[naez]

I've always hated Norton from the beginning, but it came pre-installed on this laptop from the factory and I am lazy so it stayed. For servers where you got Chinese crackers scanning ports 24/7 and bruteforcing root then maybe antivirus and shit makes sense. But for home PC, you have to be a moran. I've never bothered with antivirus and believe me I have been through the slums of internets, 0 problems but most people are morans so your mileage may vary.

Besides constantly eating up enormous amounts of needless memory and processor power 24/7 to spam me about data mining cookies (.txt files who cares) occasionally, it was ignored.

Then I'm trying to run this program today that fuxup windoze (http://wutdo.com/notavirus.exe), but when I moved the .exe out of the .zip it would get auto-deleted by Norton and I'd get a popup saying Trojan fixt! Even when I disabled the damn thing.

So I uninstalled the piece of shit. Oh and of course it took its sweet ass time, so not only did I uninstall it, I searched meticulously for all remnants of anything mentioning Norton or Synaptic to ensure total destroyal of the annoying beast.

Ran my program, restarted computer to a fucking Norton notice!