Editing Norton Utilities (section)

===2018 Allegations of SpinRite source code theft===
In June 2018 [[Steve Gibson (computer programmer)|Steve Gibson]] alleged in his weekly [[podcast]] "[[Security Now]]!", that Norton's Disk Doctor was not created by Norton but instead was [[reverse engineered]] from his ubiquitous [[SpinRite]] software without permission or attribution. This, he says, occurred after he refused to accept Peter Norton's bid to purchase SpinRite from him. He claimed proof in that random numbers he generated for [[BIOS]] compatibility checks were left unchanged in Disk Doctor, presumably because Norton's software engineers didn't know their purpose. He also alleged that Norton eventually abandoned Disk Doctor because they didn't understand how it worked, and therefore couldn't support its users.<ref>{{cite web |work=Gibson Research Corporation |title=Security Now! Transcript of Episode #666 |url=https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-666.htm |access-date=2018-07-06}}</ref>