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    Post Product Activation on NAV2004

    It seems that Symantec intend using PA on its Norton Av 2004..


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    Norton Antivirus 2004, which Symantec announced Monday for release next month, will use product activation, an increasingly common technique to tie a copy of an application to a particular PC. Symantec plans to add activation to the rest of its consumer software line over the next year.
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    ...It stores license information on the PC's hard drive and allows for up to five activations for the same product key.

    That accounts for users who make frequent upgrades or other changes to their PC," Smith said. "We've designed the solution to be flexible. ...
    The main reason I dont use Windows XP is that I frequently change hardware in my machine and I frequently reinstall my OS/Software.
    I don't want to contact MS everytime I reinstall. I hope Symantec keeps this in mind as I am pretty fond of my norton av.

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    Symantec following in Microsoft's footsteps is not a real good idea because in a few days the product activation will be cracked ( I don't support the cracking of any program unless it is from Sco Muhahahaha) Just like windows xp was. they should know by now that if anything has encryption or a product activation on it someone will look at it as a challenge and crack it

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    I think they no that it will be cracked. They just want to stop peaple installing it on all their friends pc's. Most peaple don't use cracks. But alot of peaple would make a copy for a friend or install for them.

    This just makes it that little bit harder to rip Symantic off.
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    Smith said Symantec's implementation of product activation is similar to Microsoft's and does not use Macrovision technology. Symantec's system generates a unique alphanumeric code to identify a PC configuration and ties it to the product key for a particular piece of software. It stores license information on the PC's hard drive and allows for up to five activations for the same product key.
    Well the license info is on the hard drive so I bet it will be cracked sometime...

    I wonder if they will be doing this with their corporate versions also? It will be hell on our test lab if this is true.
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    It stores license information on the PC's hard drive and allows for up to five activations for the same product key.
    Does that mean that I can still install it on all of my workstations at home? Or... I'm allowed to format and reload my machine a total of 5 times? If it is the latter... a simple backup/restore should fix that problem...
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    Originally posted here by phishphreek80


    Does that mean that I can still install it on all of my workstations at home? Or... I'm allowed to format and reload my machine a total of 5 times? If it is the latter... a simple backup/restore should fix that problem...
    It could also mean 5 hardware changes...
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    I would asume that if you want to install on multiple machines you would have to bye a licence for each machine as you do with all microsoft software.

    Untill now if you brought NAV, you could just about install it on **** loads of machines.
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    Damn... I was afraid of that. I'm using NIS/AV 2002 and got a 1 year suscriptioin.

    After the one year mark... I was not able to uninstall it and reinstall it... I had to backup everything (not a big deal), format and reload my box. I then had another year... guess I'll just have to stick with this technique for now until I become wealthy like most of you security gurus...

    I normally try to format and reinstall every 6months or so... as my personal machine becomes so bloated with everything that I try out and it really affects the performance on the box...


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