Heirloom wrote:

> The Norton/Symantec
> applications are also very invasive. Even after uninstalling, there is
> a ton of detritus scattered throughout the machine that must be removed
> manually if you want it gone.

Yep. One by one, I found far less instrusive apps to do the things Symantec
apps had been doing for me. It finally came down to Ghost, but Symantec
swallowed its major competition. So I made a few Ghost boot disks and then
uninstalled everything Symantec. Had to pick through the registry for the
many remaining references, of course.