neil,

Success at the car boot sale this morning!

Now I can protect my computers like it is 1998.

phlash,
@phlash@mastodon.me.uk avatar

@neil I used to practice that look for team meetings... 😂

moqume,

@neil I should have the bootloader that Peter Norton wrote on a floppy disk somewhere.

proactiveservices,
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@neil When one of the official fixes for LiveUpdate was to start the computer without the modem connected I started to look for alternative anti-virus for customers. To its credit, Norton still offered pretty solid protection back in its heyday.

hedders,
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@neil Be careful. Oh sure, it starts with buying old copies of Norton. But before you know it you’ll be driving over a hour to collect a sawtooth G4, carefully replacing the crappy voltage regulator on a 48k ZX Spectrum, and fretting over whether your upscaler is adding 0.2ms of lag to the signal from your Atari ST.

I’m told.

neil,

@hedders Heh!

No, no plans for anything like that. Just some pleasing wall art.

LevelUp,
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@neil That's actually a fantastic idea. I'm taking notes!

hedders,
@hedders@mas.to avatar

@neil that does sound rather pleasing. Pics when it’s done?

neil,

@hedders Probably, as I tend to overshare that kind of thing - but there is a project ahead of it in the queue...

jik,
@jik@federate.social avatar

@neil but why

neil,

@jik Why Norton made it, or why I invested £1 in this lovely piece of history?!

jik,
@jik@federate.social avatar

@neil the latter

neil,

@jik Hopefully for a wall art project I'm mulling over.

eclectech,
@eclectech@things.uk avatar

@neil OMG I have a shrink-wrapped McAfee VirusScan Security Suite from the late 90s in a cupboard somewhere, I couldn't bear to throw it out as it was such a relic.

Had not considered selling it!

It includes "1 year quarterly updates by post and 90 days of telephone product support." which strikes me as a challenge.

vogelspur,
@vogelspur@troet.cafe avatar

@neil
awwww, year 2000 compliant 😎

luciedigitalni,
@luciedigitalni@aus.social avatar

@neil ah, memories

simon_greenwood,

@neil
How much did they pay you to take it?

brunomiguel,
@brunomiguel@masto.pt avatar

@neil like, do the bare minimum on that front and slowdown the computer so much it feels it's infected with some kind of malware?

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