Originally posted by Zone-MR@Jun 14 2003, 08:30 PM
They had a system like that for liveupdate since a long time, it just wasnt called activation.
As to when it could be bypassed - if the checks are done on the client side, I'd say a few days. If the liveupdate server verifies each key and doesnt send updates to invalid users, it simply wont be possible to bypass.
People people,
Symantec have a lot of development put in their products. I everyone know the *big* difference between the versions 2001, 2002 and 2003. These major changes have to be developped and therefor paid. So just buy these products.
With Windows we don't really have an alternative, most of us dislike linux and variants. With virus scanners however we have a wide variaty of product that are sometimes even free. Let Symantec use product activation. Let us see them loose market, money, and their great name.
just mho.