Yes they are a company they need to make money.
It is unreasonable to belive that they could or should stop the whole thing becase a sucurity breach they most likely have spent millions on making the software and cant aford to go back to the drawing board, that being said i would think that they would have made major changes to make these near redundent.
I guessed how Norton would be unreliable the moment I saw how much CPU it was consuming.
And it was back in 1997 
agreed, im no wiz , but norton just sucked.
Never used an anti-virus program in my life and I’ve never had a single software problem with any of my computers
Hmm the time used in the title is wrong. I’m sure you meant ‘norton is still as insecure as 6 years ago’ as it never good, only expensive, bloating and slow and they are among the few commercial, big security companies that developed own advertisement worms only detected by them as malware (false advertising / hoax ad crap) so might hell take them down. Also they went to court to prevent MS from integrating proper security into windows due to ‘hurting fair competition’ (same crap as windvd vs microsoft on addition of a dvd codec to windows)
Would be funny to see an anti-virus or security software vendor try to sue Microsoft for offering software patches for known vulnerabilities, claiming they are being anti-competitive at “OS security” 
I always had this little devil in my ear telling me that half the computer virus outbreaks out there were actually coded by anti-virus software vendors.
Hehe funny, and yet very true. Worst antivirus software i have ever tried.
i bet they are to. i mean most people seem to spend their time hacking programs and putting them up on P2P so really how many people these days concentrate on tring to crash as many computers as they can? i honestly think most of these virus variants we have are created in the companys themselfs to provide better protection. but i also believe that the virus is released prior to the AV being updated with the new removal. i mean really your telling me a few reports of some worm can be fixed hours after its first report? that makes me think something is very not right inside the AV community.
as for norton it was once good, but now with all their bloat and over control of things, even pros are running from them. i still laugh when i hear AVG does better in tests then norton or mcafee with their free version.
I hate Norton and Mcafee and all that bloatware.
I have Avast! Free edition and I have not had --one—virus on my computer (at least not one that I found). It works how an antivirus should. it just does it’s job, without constant annoying window pop - ups, unnecessary bloatware, expensive on CPU, graphically cumbersome, unintuitive, even more annoying toolbars… and why is this stuff the commercial standard? some sort of monopoly?
This has to explain it. It just doesn’t make sense any other way.
Symantec Has More To Say About Norton Hacking
Old news is old.
Avast for me too. Either that or I just reinstall my windows every 1/2 year because it becomes bloated with all the games, programs, registry trash, etc.
Lol that’s always an option I guess. although backing up can be a pain sometimes. Nothing like a clean sweep
Backing up? Backing up what? My games… pff I have them all on steam anyway. Doesnt take all that long to download them again.
I have my gaming rig for games only. Work is all done on my mac which backups with time machine. I dont trust windows with my important stuff, only the gaming 
I’m pretty much a pack rat when it comes to files. I still have old GameMaker projects from 3 yrs ago sitting in forgotten folders…and countless picture backupsI dunno why. Dropbox makes it easier though.
Just remember virus’s are written to get past AV to these days. in other words avast is not 100 you might have a virus ya dont know about, because it was written to get past avast. this is why no AV program can get 100% of threats thrown at it during tests, because they all ignore certain files and such because they use them to run.
That is true, although I really don’t notice much virus activity these days.Not as bad as the random series of Vista attacks with Malware fake AV programs that wouldn’t let you run any files or programs without purchasing the software. But that was most likely user error and not a Vista problem (but I think I had Avast then…). But who knows. My system32 could be melting away as we speak.
While it obviously sucks… that article was so much hype it’s not funny.
This incident does not tell you the ability of NISS at that time [or since].
Simply having source code doesn’t grant you magic hacking powers - proof you say? Linux. Encryption algorithms etc.
I can confirm that, as long ago I met with one guy who was working in a PC repair enterprise that was using this method to create their client database.