How much are you worth on the black market?
Found on IT World on Wednesday, 09 September 2009
The Norton Online Risk Calculator, unveiled within a microsite to coincide with the launch of Norton 2010, calculates your net worth on the black market by asking a few questions about your personal Internet use.
It takes a few minutes to answer the questions, after which you get three results: how much your online assets are worth, how much your online identity would sell for on the black market, and your risk of becoming a victim of identity theft.
That site didn't work in three different browsers on two different operating systems. Only after a total fresh install of the most current Firefox and the Flash 10 plugin, I was greeted by a slow loading page. After some waiting, the flash started working and CPU went up straight to 100% (which went down after switching to another tab and back up when returning). Mind you, there were no animations or whatsoever. Just a few options and buttons to click. Truly a Norton product; no doubt about it: create a little questionnaire that's impacting the system as much as possible. I guess managment ruled out a simple, plain and resource-friendly HTML-only solution. But in the end, the message came across: I won't buy anything from Norton ever. Much worse, I wouldn't even consider pirating their software. Yes, it's that bad.