Reputations aside, and no offense to Kyle. I have a hard time believing that Norton would continually release a repair utility that doesn't work, or causes more problems than it fixes (especially since myself and others have had good success with it).
1) Norton Utilities and Antivirus for Windows are both well respected in the tech community. While few techs like the Utilities installed on a Windows system (it causes crashes, similar to its behavior on a Mac when all components are installed), many do use it to repair the registry. 2) It makes no economical sense for them to release a utilities suite that doesn't work (the little bits of "fluff" don't count, as they are not what's sold). It's not like they sell hard drives, or computers, or on-site tech support. What would they gain, except for a lot of lawsuits. 3) No one would buy or recommend it, no techs would use it and it would die shortly. As is, several people on this list use it regularly. I, myself have no qualms about recommending it to others. I know of several techs who swear by both the Win and Mac versions, and stand by its usefulness. Though the company I worked for last was small, every tech carried a copy of both wherever they went. It was often the first thing used on a client's computer(s). My experience has been that if a disk utility screws up a drive (or the software installed on it) then there was usually something else going on. Either the drive was failing (or some other hardware issue), the utility itself was corrupted (can be a corruption in RAM too), or it was being run on the startup drive or the drive it was installed on. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. The ONLY utility I've ever personally had screw up a drive was Diskwarrior. The worst thing I've seen happen with Norton was when someone tried using a copy of v3 on an OS 9 drive. Of course, Crash Guard can cause problems and Disk Light causes type 1 errors, but you don't need to install those. > I can back Kyle up on this. I know his reputation. I used to work for > Computerware in the Bay Area, and I have seen dozens of Hard Drives get > wacked by Norton. Norton also killed one of my drives, and as a result > I lost all my data. Norton is evil. Use Disk Warrior. > > Cheers, > > Aaron Willems > MacCSE > > On Saturday, March 22, 2003, at 08:44 AM, Kyle Hansen wrote: > >> As an Apple Service tech working for a large service provider I can >> attest >> to the fact that Norton Sucks. I have had (over the last 4 years or >> so) >> literally HUNDREDS of drives killed in varying degrees by Norton, and >> literally HUNDREDS more where the customer was complaining of a various >> array of problems that were immediately resolved by removing all Norton >> related files from their Hard Disk. >> >> Kyle H. Hansen > Hamlin http://hamlin.artistfolios.com 'I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with equality liberty and justice for all.' -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
