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(Unverified)Sep 29th 2009 10:28AM
I have found this on-line:
Many states have laws against false advertising, which vary by state. The main federal laws governing false advertising are the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act and the Lanham Act. Under the FTC Act, false advertising includes advertisements that make representations that the advertiser has no reasonable basis to believe, even if the representations turn out to be true. Only the Federal Trade Commission can enforce the FTC Act.
Freeware do scan web pages, emails and IMs, stop hackers. Freeware do have firewall and intrusion blocking + Freeware have HIPS (which according to commercial payware security does not have :D )
Since this is obviously false advertising is there a chance that Symantec will face charges?
(Unverified)Sep 29th 2009 10:50AM
I don't believe such accusations would hold water. Symantec didn't say that AVG or Avast! don't have any of those things - they said "freeware"; download. com has 142 free antivirus programs (I didn't actually count them, so I'm not sure if there are several versions of a single program), so Symantec can say they were talking about any of those programs.
(Unverified)Sep 29th 2009 10:59AM
On the other side not all "Norton" products have advertised features....