Kaspersky shines here and non US governments prefer this because it does not have U.S legal bindings to keep backdoor for CIA FBI etc. For prev post, not only "Al" means "THE" but Kabir also means "BIG" so it makes The BIG Site. I dont believe it was all Norton/Mcafee he was using. He shouldnt have just taken laptop outside Syria.

There is technique called TEMPEST.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEMPEST
http://www.surasoft.com/articles/tempest.php

Just like ur Keyboard keys emit electromagnetic signals the CPU/Processor also emits similar waves which can be decoded.
http://www.google.com.pk/search?hl=en&safe=off&num=100&q=decode+CPU+electromagnetic&btnG=Search&meta=&aq=f&oq=

I mean, you might as well refer to “the Al-Kabir site” as “al The-Kabir site” for all the sense it makes.

symantec has built in features of ignoring spyware put out by government agencies.
If a country is stupid enough to use commercial software on their devices then they deserve to be hacked.