Now THIS is an interesting thread. This may all be something benign or something serious, but it seems pretty clear that Norton's trying to hide
something by deleting threads on their community forums and giving no reasons as to why.
My question is if Norton is doing something shady, why wtould they allow their AV program to notify you that pifts.exe is trying to access the
internet? Really, if they were up to no good, I'm sure there are "slealthier" ways to accomplish whatever it is that they're trying to do.
I guess the real question is why Norton is keeping quiet about all this? Ignoring consumer questions is just making them look bad.. Not a very good
idea.
I went ahead and created a username for the Norton forums and asked about pifts.exe. I expected to see some sort of forum announcement about it on
there but there was nothing so it seems as if Norton is still ignoring it. I took a screenshot of my thread; it appears someone else had posted a
thread about pifts.exe right before I did too. I'm gonna wait and see if the threads get deleted or what happens.
UPDATE:
Well, I can confirm that these pieces of # are deleting threads related to pifts.exe. I posted my thread about it on their forums at 247am central US
time. As of 304am central US time my thread - and the other one that got posted a couple minutes before mine - is gone.
This is very troubling, not necessarily because something "sinister" is going on here, but simply because Norton is obviously trying to sweep
"something" under the rug. And as long as they keep quiet and don't respond to questions, consumers' imaginations are going to run rampant with
regards to what's going on.
Could it possibly be that an AV company has finally been caught red handed trying to infection computers or steal some type of information?
UDATE to UPDATE:
Just noticed that they're not allowing me to create new threads anymore too. I guess deleting my thread was pretty simple. All I did was ask what
pifts.exe was... Pretty lame and kinda scary.
Cool; this one's still alive. Had to remake an account to post this one; I'll make it quick. Deny it any access whatsoever; it's
logging some kind of info and sending it to Google, for all we know. Whatever you do, DO NOT ALLOW IT TO RUN. Oh, and don't bother calling them.
They're giving the run around. Hey Moderator, when you go to nuke this one, think for a minute: Aren't you curious what your overlords are
hiding from you?
I don't believe that my thread on the Norton forums received any replies; at least I couldn't check before Norton decided to delete it and remove my
posting priveledges, but the above was posted in yet another pifts.exe related thread that was just created.
I don't know how true what the poster is saying about pifts.exe. I don't understand why Norton would want to send anything to google since (I
believe) Norton is owned my Symantec who is owned by Yahoo. Very interesting nonetheless.
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