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Symantec revenue hop can't stop profit flop

John Bayly

How? 

I'm surprised their revenues have gone up, though I imagine it's more to do with exchange rates than demand for their software.

Who in their right mind uses Symantec products? You constantly have to re-active the AV to download definitions, their firewall is shit, and I resent my boot time going up by 3-5 minutes the moment I install their AV suite.

All they seem good at anymore is destroying the [decent] products of companies that they assimilate.