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Update: A reply from Symantec’s webmaster claims”it is a caching issue with Akamai,
and is being resolved.”

It appears Symantec, one of the leading computer security companies, has possibly been hacked.

I went to the main symantec.com site, looking for info about Norton Utilities for my family’s windows machine. (Which BTW appears they only ship bundled with a bunch of other stuff as System Works now.) So I clicked on “Products and Services.”

Main Symantec Page:

Products and Services:

I chose System Works from the menu:

Which is where the first odd thing happened. All I got was this page full of broken images, so I tried to click on “Buy Now”:

This page actually looked more like it should, so I clicked on compare:

And up came this lovely pop-up! Something’s not right here:

So I can only come to the conclusion that they were either hacked, or they really need to get a new web staff???