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From: elliot@well.UUCP (Elliot Fabric)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: The OFFICIAL Jasmine/SUM registration answer
Keywords: S.U.M.
Message-ID: <7555@well.UUCP>
Date: 4 Nov 88 07:54:06 GMT
References: <75945@sun.uucp> <7547@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: elliot@well.UUCP (Elliot Fabric)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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I bought the S.U.M. utilities from Symantec yesterday. Promptly
installed the the crash recovery stuff and threw out my now
antiquated CPS Tagfix and Init Crashguard, etc.

Lots of screwy things started happening on my SE. I called Symantec
and they asked the version mumber of Program Disk 2. I told them it
was v. 1.02. I was told not to use it because the inits were corrupted
on that run of disks. They are mailing me new disks.

Something unnerving here. A company selling software protection that doesn't
work right. I bet there are a lot of people using SUM not knowing it isn't
working. Symantec told me not to use it until the new disks arrive.
They ought to be recalling the bad disks or at least putting the word
out through their dealers not to rely on the v 1.02 run and certainly not
to get rid of other reliable protection schemes until this is straightened out.

The other mickey I got slipped has to do with not mentioning certain
Multifinder compatibility problems until Page Eight of their Welcome
Chapter, which is of course, shrink wrapped. The mention goes like this,
"...we recommend you do not run any SUM program under MultiFinder. 
Uh, Symantec, would you put important information like that on
the OUTSIDE of the package.

SUM may be great utilities, but thus far I am not impressed.