Chris Mosby at myITforum.com

Here I am doing my morning routine, eating my

Raisin Nut Bran Cereal (yum!) and checking my usual set of 
security and antivirus websites when I noticed something was not right.  One of my tabs in Firefox is set to open to http://securityresponse.symantec.com/ , and I find a graphic and slick website that has obviously been hijacked by some marketing guys.  I then give http://www.sarc.com a try and I am forwarded to the exact same page. Both have some antivirus\security information there, but it is not anywhere near the level of detail that I have come to expect over the years.

What was Symantec thinking???

It took me about 15 minutes of searching and clicking and I finally found a page with the information I wanted and needed, which can be found here:

http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/index.jsp

It didn’t take me long to find out that not only have they redesigned their website, but they have redesigned the URI structure and look of their virus information pages as well (Looks suspiciously like Trend Micro’s pages). So any bookmarks that you have on Symantec’s website are now null and void.  This also seems to cause trouble with links to virus information on Secunia's virus information page as well.  I did notice that they still have the link on the page above for putting Symantec info on their own site, so it might be better to set this up on your intranet somewhere, if this information is important.  Maybe I can throw something together that will have that information on it, so we can all use it.

WHAT WAS SYMANTEC THINKING???

I can’t speak for everyone, but personally I HATE the new website design.  The previous design was a lot easier to read and find the information that a security professional needs.  If you agree, you can send feedback to Symantec on the new design here (this was unavailable when I tried to go to it this morning): http://www.symantec.com/feedback/index.jsp