Norton Utilities officially (and finally) dead

By Laurie A. Duncan

Last year, when Symantec announced "There will be no future version of Norton Utilities for Macintosh and all development of the software has been shelved", I exhaled a sigh of relief. Having seen Norton Utilities do far more harm than good to too many Macs (and a few PCs, although I try to avoid those... they give me hives) over the years, I said good riddance.

Symantec has posted a Tiger Compatibility page which reinforces Norton Utilities and Norton SystemWorks' EOL (end of life) status. They state "Norton SystemWorks and Norton Utilities will not be updated for compatibility with Mac OS X 10.4," while assuring us (or threatening us, depending on which camp you're in) that Norton's AntiVirus, Personal Firewall and Internet Security products will be updated "soon" for Tiger compatibility.

[Thanks, Mike!]
 

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