由2005年3月至2005年12月止, 賽門鐵克將 Spybot-S&D 列入與 Norton Ghost 不相容的清單, 並且聲稱會損害備份. as incompatible to Norton Ghost, and endangering backups, with no reason given to us in 19 months now. Since October 2005, Norton Internet Security has told users that Spybot-S&D would be incompatible and they had to remove Spybot-S&D.

十一個月後, 賽門鐵克只給了我們一個捏造的理由,而且不符實情. 雖然賽門鐵克再次保證會修改, 但是他們目前釋出的諾頓網路安全 2007 (NIS 2007), 仍然強烈建議使用者將 Spybot-S&D 解除安裝.

我們很願意與他們[賽門鐵克]合作, 一起消除不相容的問題; 但是他們十分殷勤地告誡他們的客戶關於"相容性" 的問題, 就算是法律程序也無法說服賽門鐵克透露更多細節給我們...一年多了, 他們仍然無法履行承諾. 難道賽門鐵克的品管部門的效率那麼差, 無法找到舊的報告或是重新測試嗎?

Both of us are members of the ASC, the Anti Spyware Coalition, a group of anti-spyware companies working together - in theory. The ASC has discussed Best Practices for half a year now. Sadly, this seems to only affect practices against malware creators, while coalition members are allowed to fight each other as much as they want.

假如我們製造惡意軟體而不是反間碟軟體, 我們大概會嘲弄各個ASC的部門, 親眼目睹一個反間諜軟體移除另一個競爭對手.

縱使之前由ASC主導的仲裁也只帶來賽門鐵克毀諾的結果.

因此, 我們將We will therefore bring a motion in front of the ASC to expel Symantec for damaging the ASC through its practices of illegal improper competition and libel, resulting even in malware creators being able to spread their malware better. Should this motion be rejected by a majority of ASC members, we most likely leave this coalition as it would then appear that ASC is favoring libel as a proper way of competition.

如果你認為反間諜軟體廠商應該攜手對抗間諜程式而不是起內鬨, 請選擇你想要聯絡的 ASC 會員寄出電子郵件到 這裡, 或是 ASC 本體: asc@cdt.org

Following that, thinking on how we could stop Symantec, we have two options: taking expensive legal steps, or behaving the same way as Symantec, accepting the removal of a competitor as a "legit" step. Should we add detection for Norton Internet Security 2006 and 2007 as Malware or Possibly UnPopular Software (PUPS)?

• 是, 將 NIS 列為威脅之一!
• 是, 不過只要偵測到一些無害的檔案讓他人醒悟.
• 不, 請將捐款浪費在法律程序上而不是用於對抗惡意軟體
• 以上皆非.

Please note that under ASCs definition, technology that is implemented in ways that impairs user control over material changes that affecs their system security, in other words software that reduces system security like NIS does, falls under the term Spyware (and Other Potentially Unwanted Technologies), so adding NIS to the detection would not be revenge, but a strict following of the ASC definitions.

We have started a poll in our forums where you can vote!