Anonymous #Operation Symantec

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http://www.itnews.com.au/News/287103,hackers-back-symantec-scareware-lawsuit....
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/01/11/lawsuit-claims-symantec-...

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Greetings world, we are anonymous. several weeks ago A lawsuit was filed against Symantec Corporation that claims the software maker seeks to persuade consumers to buy its products by scaring them with misleading information about the health of their computers. James Gross, a resident of the state of Washington, filed the suit in District Court in San Jose, California on Tuesday, according to his attorneys. A copy of the complaint provided to Reuters by Gross's attorneys alleges that Symantec distributes trial versions of its products that scans a consumer's system, then invariably reports that harmful errors, privacy risks and other problems exists on the PC, regardless of the real condition of the machine. A Symantec representative could not immediately comment on the lawsuit, which seeks class-action status. The company uses that scanning software to market Norton Utilities, PC Tools Registry Mechanic and PC Tools Performance Toolkit software. Norton Utilities and PC Tools are products that Symantec says help improve the performance of PCs and keep online activities private. The software is falsely informing the consumer that errors are high priority and in addition it is falsely informing the consumer that their overall system health and privacy health is low. Symantec, the top producer of consumer anti-virus software, is the maker of Norton three sixty, Norton Internet Security and Norton Anti Virus software. Sales of all Symantec's consumer products, including PC Tools and Norton Utilities rose 4 percent to 2 billion dollars in its most-recent fiscal year. The suit describes Norton Utilities and PC Tools as forms of "scare ware," a common type of malicious software that causes pop-up messages to appear on computers telling users that they are infected with a virus. The truth, however, is that the scare ware does not actually perform any meaningful evaluation of the user's computer system, or of the supposed 'errors' detected by the software," the complaint claims. "The scare ware does not, and cannot, actually perform the valuable tasks represented by Symantec through its websites, advertising, and in-software display screens." recently members of anonymous tested this software on brand new computers and laptops with different specifications only to find that false errors were reported. many people around the world would consider this as a basic form of corruption by simply scaring innocent people to part with their money. for these reason's anonymous has decided to reverse the game and target the Symantec corporation, with the main goal of scaring the company into changing it's ethics and actually offering the consumer with 100 percent integrity. people of Symantec, we are anonymous, we are legion, we do not forgive, we do not forget, expect us.

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