Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Network Security Inc., called the fracas "a big to-do about nothing," but he blamed Apple's attitude as much as anything for the widespread interest in the incident. "If it wasn't for the fact that Apple has been so smug around malware and viruses and such, this would not have been such a big deal," Storms said.

He said that the action is another example of Apple's lack of transparency about security issues. "It became a big brouhaha because we didn't have any information. Look at the message you get when you try to reach the document now. It doesn't say anything about why it was pulled."

Symantec would be very confident about the capability of both their product which are Norton Internet Security 2009 and Norton AntiVirus 2009. A few corporates that did this project added some confidence from Symantec. Last time, AV-Test as a security corporate tester has published the analyze protection against malware. The objective is to compare between Norton Internet Security 2009 beta and another 33 famed virus protection.