From: "Frank Haber" 

Re: NAV/NIS (a pox on their names)

>I will concur with that "have to uninstall"

ACK^2.  And there are variations on the agony.  Downloaded "upgrades" from
?Digital River are the worst, the pits.  Why are DR installers always
backversion and broken?  How can they have such a perfect track record? 
Paid DR installers have wrecked computers for me with two versions of
Partition Magic, and two each of NAV and NIS.  Plus, they're delightfully
time-limited and self-destructo, and protected in other obscure ways.

The only reliable NIS installs I've seen recently are the OEM ones on
Dells. Those are worth upgrading, I guess, if you're undemanding and don't
mind obscure hangs and hickies every once in a while, and a 30% slower
machine with far less snap.

What other company besides Symantec has to devote so much energy to
backstop-uninstall-stripper programs, for when their regular uninstaller
fails to recognice DRM subversion 722a, upgraded from whatever, on
Thursdays?

Strange corollary: the corporate versions of NAV and McAfee are far less
trouble.  The wages of sin (DRM)?  For sure.

There is a mass migration to AVG and NOD32 in my circles.  Even the Win
version of F-PROT is supposed to be good now (note to self: another bunch
of good guys - have to check that out).  Trend isn't too awful.

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