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Saturday, July 23, 2005

[Computer] Tear Jerkingly Painful Download of Norton's Password Manager

My Symantec Norton Anti-Virus and Firewall subscriptions have expired. It
is cheaper to buy the new Internet Security bundle from Norton?s web site.
I ordered the physical package from Norton, as I want the CDs. The bundle
included Norton Password Manager 2004 (which I am not really sure I care
about). Surprise, the Password Manager is a download (they did not tell me
that until after I gave them my money). I am trying to download it. It is
downloading at about 3 KB/s from their web site over my cable connection.
Every few second Norton Anti-Virus decides to scan what has been downloaded
so far, halting the download and chewing up my system?s CPU. What a bush
league operation. It is Norton?s software, Norton?s download, and Norton?s
brain-dead virus checker needlessly checking and rechecking the download of
Norton?s software, and there seems to be no way I can stop the virus checker
from spawning new checks every 2 or 3 seconds. Therefore, I disabled the
brain-dead hyperactive virus checker completely. Now the downloader and
installer tells me that many of the downloaded files are corrupt and I have
to start over. What a bush-league operation! :-(

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