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| 11 Mar 2009 | #1 |
| | Concerns over pifts.exe from Norton There has been some concern expressed recently about the nature of the file pifts.exe, which is installed by Norton software. The following at Bleeping computer may give some answers ... Quote: There has been a lot of controversy the past few days over a program called pifts.exe that is bundled with Norton products. This program is said to connect to stats.norton.com and send information from your computer to a remote site. What makes it even more strange is that any topics created to discuss this program in the Norton community forums have been erased. Due to this programs behavior, and Norton's strange activity, a lot of theories have been popping up from data being sent to africa to NSA snooping. Personally, I think there is a much simpler explanation. Debunking the Norton pifts.exe conspiracies |
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| 11 Mar 2009 | #2 |
| | Interesting read,Thanks. |
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| 11 Mar 2009 | #3 |
| | Symantec's Blunder Online attackers feed off Norton forum purge • The Register As if we don't have enough to worry about  |
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| 11 Mar 2009 | #4 |
| | Oh, I see this was posted earlier .. trust my one of my malware cohert's Lawrence! Debunking the Norton pifts.exe conspiracies |
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| 15 Mar 2009 | #6 |
| | They have since put all the legitimate posts regarding PIFts.exe back into one big post that is locked. Timothy Lopez (with whom I have had dealings with in the past as a beta tester) apologized about the confusion on Donna Buenaventura's (of Calendar of Updates and MVP fame) blog about the mass confusion, but she and I are of the same mind - this was handled incorrectly. See the topic Symantec deleting PIFTS.EXE postings in Norton Forums - Calendar Of Updates over at CoU for more details and my take on the situation. |
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