Why is Norton antivirus so prevelant?

Most everyone in the field knows that NAV sucks in so many ways. Is it Best Buy, Microsoft?

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I will give them credit for being able to sucker people into purchasing Nortons with their slick marketing skills. To bad they are unable to take these skills and put them into turning around a pure junk product into a quality product.

One would think they would learn from years of making horrible mistakes with their software. Each and every year Nortons continues to get worse. They learn nothing from past experiences.

My guess is as long as they are pulling the the "born yesterday people", they will continue to get richer and richer with no need to make any effort to imporve their software so that is not a hugh resource hog, finds viruses and you are not left with 375 fragments of Nortons when you decide you want to remove the software.

They are in many ways like Microsoft Windows Platforms. You pay alot of money for Windows XP and you expect to get a product that you do not have to download 75 or more critical updates. Kind of like selling you a platform full of security holes.

Microsoft has full knowledge that when you purchase a plaform youv are purchasing a platform full of security holes. And then they turn around with the WGA, and validate that your key is genuine for a platform full of flaws.

There is no logic to this madness.

Minddoctor, France

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it's added by microsoft, they get money for it, and it's hard to delete because it just keeps coming back, but it sucks.
Not really.