Blackmoor Vituperative

Norton SystemWorks 2005 is free after rebate at Outpost.com. Don’t buy it: it has “product activation”, one of the “treat your customers like criminals” techniques that threaten to become more common. Symantec has joined the ilk of Microsoft, RIAA, MPAA, and the rest of the robber barons, and the only way they will ever stop is if we make them hurt where they hurt most: the bottom line.

So don’t buy SystemWorks, even though it’s free. Spurn Symantec until they wake up and stop treating their customers so disrespectfully. Buy SystemSuite 5 from V-Com instead. V-Com doesn’t treat you like a criminal. Besides which, SystemSuite 5 has a better antivirus utility, better registry tools, a better user interface, and it’s less of a resource hog.

SystemSuite 5: it’s the right thing to do.